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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.

The current up move that is occurring across many of the major equity indices around the world has many including myself asking, at least rhetorically, how far can it go? A long way if it is the beginning of a new bull market! However, let’s assume for this discussion that we expect some more bumps along the way before a new bull market takes hold.

In my last article on Santos (STO:ASX) in Issue 300 of the Trading Tutors Newsletter, I focussed mainly on Price. To students of WD Gann and David Bowden this is commonly referred to as the First Dimension of analysis. This time I would like to include a consideration of Time, or the Second Dimension. Of the two, Time is the more important. Gann said that ‘when the Time is up the Volume of sales will increase and force prices higher or lower.’