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Welcome to part 9 of a new series of articles on the Butterfly. In this week’s article, we will continue looking at the Risk Graph page in a lot more detail.

Welcome to part 8 of a new article series on one of my favourite strategies, the Butterfly. In this week’s article, we will continue looking at the Risk Graph page in a lot more detail.

Welcome to part 7 of a new article series on one of my favourite strategies, the Butterfly.

Welcome to part 6 of a new article series on one of my favourite strategies, the Butterfly.

Welcome to part 5 of a new article series on one of my favourite strategies, the Butterfly.

Welcome to part 4 of a brand new series on one of my favourite strategies, the Butterfly. In this weeks article, we will be looking at how to deal with the Butterfly on Expiration day.

Everyday multitudes of traders embark upon the task of trying to predict the direction and movement of stocks.

Welcome to part 1 of a brand new series on one of my favourite strategies, the Butterfly. Last weekend we held the 2009 Expert Strategies seminar in Sydney which I attended.

I would like to continue this month with my new series on Iron Condor (IC) trading and share some of the insights I gained in trading Iron Condors on the Russell 2000 Index (RUT).

After most bear markets, we usually see a period of the market trending sideways. But what does ‘sideways’ really mean? A sideways market is one that goes neither strongly up nor down, but just drifts along more or less in a channel. There are however periods within the channel where the market goes up or down strongly, but when you average out the gains and losses over a period of time, perhaps a couple of months, the market hasn’t made or lost much ground.