Archive for February, 2010

Pricing Futures Options

Many traders who understand futures trading have a hard time understanding futures options. This is because the pricing of the options is sometimes different for the futures option contracts compared to the futures contracts.
For example, the 30 year t-bond futures contract has 32 ticks for each point in t-bonds. Each tick is worth $31.25. Now [...]

Know Your Investment Style, It’s Very Important

This is something that most people don’t even think about, but knowing what your risk tolerance and investment style are very important. This will help you choose investments that are more suited to you, and which the long run should do better as you will be less stressed and make fewer trading errors. 
While there are [...]

Chartists and the Technical Analysis Course

A chartist can decide to go with a technical analysis course or personal study can be their method of learning. Many a chartist goes with the idea “follow the other fellow… He probably knows more about the fundamentals than I do.” The basic tenet of the chartist is “the trend [...]