There is nothing more frustrating than missing a trade. A missed opportunity is as good as a loss! For almost 20 years, since I joined the industry. This is a statement that remains every bit as true today. As it did back then. I often hear clients calling into my trading floor. Several hours or […]
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The core reason why you should be using EasyTrade to help you: As you may have read, I am currently in Europe, and other than desperately trying not to put on weight with the volume of rich food on offer, it has also provided a time out to look at many things with fresh eyes.
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Is this the biggest shift in trading technology since the internet? Over my years in the broking industry – coming up for almost two decades soon, much has changed. The move from full service phone broking to online was one of the biggest. Self directed trading with orders executed online, seemed the way forward especially
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BHP’s earnings release this week highlighted a strong improvement in sales and earnings. And was combined with a strong 2% rise in the stock’s price to its highest price since Feb 2013. However from a long-term stock holder’s perspective, it’s been a long slow process of recouping value. Currently trading just between $38 – $39
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This week we were able to hit the profit target. On our NAB Bull Put Spread, entered on 11th Dec. This trade is enter by selling the 33.50 Jan Puts and buy the 32.50 Jan Puts. Collecting an overall gross credit on the trade of 40.5c. This meant that at best. We stood to make
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Over the last two months, we have had several successful bearish pays on BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP). Including yesterday’s exit of the Dec 37 / 38 Bear Call Spread (11/12/13). This trade was actually rolled over at the last options expiration, where we had previously held a November 37 / 38 Bear Call. For the initial
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We entered an Iron Condor position on FaceBook (NASDAQ:FB) on the 23rd October 2013. This strategy is a non-directional outlook for the underlying share price. Using both Call and Put options. We sell the strategy to receive premium. And benefit from Time Decay and declining Implied Volatility. In fact, the strategy has very little to
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Google (Code GOOG) is a technology company. That builds products and provides services to organize information and make it universally accessible and useful. It provides Search, Product Listing Ads, Search plus Your World, Google Now, and Google Knowledge Graph. The company also offers AdWords, AdSense, Google Display, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and YouTube. In addition, it
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Trade of the Week RIO (ASX:RIO) – Bear Call Spread Option Strategy This week we took an early profit on a RIO bear call spread, 14 days prior to options expiration. The trade was entered on 11th Sept as a pair of spreads, namely a bull put on BHP. And the abovementioned bear call
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Apparently, that happened this week and dominated the news on one particular site – quite why it’s news and who really cares is beyond me. The whole concept of the show ie having so little to do in your own life. That spending hour watching a group of people in lockdown. Doing very little, if
