How to make a million dollars a year trading
Tsunami Trading Educators, Inc
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As the old adage goes, start with 2 million right?  No, seriously we believe that wise money management is the determining factor to all trading strategies, and what ultimately will determine a successful trader from a consistent loser. Many a trader has fallen [...]

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11.26.08
Durable goods come in at -6.2%, twice as much as the expected decline of -3.0% while consumer spending drops the most in seven years. China slashes rates to boost eco activity and this bumps copper towards 175 resistance. Gold is off today while silver is up. Gold tracks closely with the EC which [...]

Learning Options- Part 4
In real estate, they say that the three most important things are location, location, and location. In options, the three most important things are volatility, volatility, and volatility. Often neglected by option rookies, volatility is the cornerstone of an option professional’s trading strategy.
In its simplest form, expressed as the annualized percentage of [...]

The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite markets. Each contract in the table is represented by a directional tendency for both the Minor and Major trends.  Two up arrows identify a Bullish Trend - two down arrows a Bearish Trend - one of each a Neutral Trend. The Trend [...]

Learning Options- Part 3
Two of the more common option strategies are horizontal spreads (identical strike prices, different expiration days) and vertical spreads (different strike prices, same expiration day). Other spread types are combinations or variations of these categories: Diagonal spreads are a mixture of horizontal and vertical spreads; butterfly spreads combine two different vertical spreads.
Selling [...]

Learning Options- Part 2
Many people like options because they believe them to be less risky than futures. Options sometimes offer reduced risk, but usually at the cost of reduced profit potential.
One drawback of options is that a trader must consider market speed (volatility) as well as direction. Traders who buy or sell options outright to [...]

Learning Options- Part 1
There are four components to an options price: underlying contract price, intrinsic value ( determined by strike price), time value (time remaining until expiration) and volatility. (A fifth element, interest rates, also can affect option prices, but for our purposes is unimportant.)
Intrinsic value refers to the amount an option is in-the-money. With [...]

The Safest Way to Sell Options
Commodity markets have not been spared the mood swings pounding other markets in late 2008, and futures traders continue their quest to find safe methods of receiving consistent returns as they trade the markets. Futures traders often stumble on option writing as a strategy that “makes sense,” at least from [...]