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Welcome to Part 12 of my series on the Greeks. In this article and the one following we are going to focus again on choosing your Greeks but this time on the level of the whole portfolio, rather than just in individual trades.

In this week’s article I would like to share with you some ways to construct a trade plan that I have found very helpful - helpful in forcing me to know exactly what I'm doing and what moves I'm going to make, when.

You may remember back in December we looked at a Calendar trade on Woolworths (WOW) based on our outlook from Kevin Rudd’s bonus payment.

In the current volatile market conditions the spread on the bid/ask of options has widened to reflect the uncertainty that traders are feeling.

A question I’m constantly asked is, “how do you trade this type of market?” Well, if you must trade in this market then do it safely and yes that is possible.

What an amazing year we had in the markets in 2008.

Could there be a Christmas rally  this year after all?

Welcome to Part 11 of my series on the Greeks. In last week’s article we looked at trades that began with a dominant Greek and how to manage that Greek throughout the life of the trade.

Well, it is the silly season and that’s one of the “silly” things about options.

Is this going to be another big run up in the price of Gold?