Articles for: Options Analysis

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.

I have just spent the last 2 days at the February 2009 Optionetics 2-day seminar in Sydney. Most of the room were new students and I found it really special connecting again with people who are at the start of their trading careers.

Gold has certainly had another nice little run up over the last few weeks and maybe we have to ask ourselves, did we miss an opportunity to profit from this?

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?