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Welcome all our Safety in the Market traders to this month’s dedicated newsletter. While April proved a slightly tougher month for trading than March it still essentially provided more to the upside for the overall market.

Let’s say you are a tennis player and you would like to improve your game. Who would you play? Rafael Nadal? Imagine him serving ace after ace.

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?

Everyone knows that stop loss orders should be  used for each and every active market position. The reasons which are usually  cited revolve around risk mitigation, being free from watching the market 24/7  and even the psychological impact of consistent trade planning.

When trying to judge the success of traders  there is nothing more definitive than the rate of return they have been able to  demonstrate.  Regardless of what other  explanations or justifications you might consider, a trader that has achieved a  50% return over the past year has been objectively more successful than another  who generated a 5% return.