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The Magic of Butterflies - Part 1

Matt Baker 17 Aug, 2009
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.
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Reflecting on my Iron Condors of 2008 - Part 2

Matt Baker 3 Aug, 2009
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).
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Insuring Your Portfolio

Andrew Page 29 May, 2009

If the possibility of a market downturn has you worried, you might want to consider purchasing some insurance for your portfolio. Here I am referring to a process called ‘hedging’, which ensures that your downside risk is limited by purchasing a financial instrument that will offset any loss incurred in your portfolio.

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The Greeks and Their Mystery Unveiled - Part 15

Matt Baker 15 May, 2009
Welcome to part 15 of my series on the Greeks. Over  the last several months we have gone over a lot of issues on the Greeks  including their meaning, practical application, how they behave, and how to  manage them on a trade level and over a whole portfolio. Where to from here?
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The Greeks & Their Mystery Unveiled! - Part 14

Matt Baker 4 May, 2009
Welcome to part 14 of my series on the Greeks. In last weeks article we constructed a sample portfolio of three trades, and looked at the overall portfolio Greeks.
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Using options strategies to trade sideways

Matt Baker 17 Apr, 2009
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.
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The Greeks and Their Mystery Unveiled! - Part 13

Matt Baker 9 Apr, 2009

Welcome to part 13 of my series on the Greeks. In last weeks article we started looking at managing the Greeks on the level of the whole portfolio, rather than just in individual trades. We will do this by assessing some trades on the SPY (S&P500), AAPL (Apple Computers) and GOOG (Google). We will use real Greek values in the study, but for simplicity will round each one to the nearest whole number.

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The Greeks And Their Mystery Unveiled! - Part 12

Matt Baker 2 Apr, 2009
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.
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Plan the trade and trade the plan!

Matt Baker 13 Mar, 2009
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.
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