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Elliott Supporting Gann and Fibonacci

Jordan Craw 5 Jun, 2009

Two names synonymous with Technical Analysis are Gann and Elliott, each having their die hard followers. As in many walks of life, people claim their area of study to be the best. Just look at diets, martial arts, weight loss programs or anything related to some kind of personal improvement. Practitioners of each style or method claim theirs is the best, hands down. The funny thing is most work in a similar manner to the same end. Trading in many ways is no different. I am a fan of the saying, “If it works use it!!”

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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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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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Survival of the Fittest

John Jeffery 6 Mar, 2009
This article is going to argue two points which can not readily be taken from any chart. The first is that the market is in a bottoming process (particularly in the US) although the view from the chart is somewhat clouded.
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Taking the Risk out of Calendars

Matt Baker 18 Jan, 2008
Let’s look at what we can do with a Calendar Spread, after expiration of the first short month, and try to eliminate as much risk as possible as the trade progresses.

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