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Well what a week. The challenge for the Newsletter Editorial this week was where to start as there was just so much to write about – we started the week with media reports from the Dubai G7 meeting which really only highlighted some on-going, festering world currency issues.

As I indicated last week in my article, ‘The Power of Confirmation’, the SPI200 had threatened to show some opportunities to profit on the short side of the market.

In all forms of long-term investing and short-term trading, deciding the appropriate time to exit a position is just as important as, if not more important than, determining the best time to enter into your position.

A bear put spread is a debit spread created by purchasing a higher strike put and selling a lower strike put with the same expiration dates.

You might ask why are we inflicted with such uncertainty all of a sudden. Life was going along swimmingly then all of a sudden we are questioning the road we have been travelling as road blocks such as currency turmoil, oil production cuts, new concerns about world growth etc. etc. are put in our way.