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LONG TERM TREND                            BEARISHINTERMEDIATE TERM TREND             BEARISHSHORT TERM TREND                          BULLISHVERY SHORT TERM TREND                 BEARISH Gold broke through the first downtrend channel line at 1215 at the start of the month and rallied as high as the 200 week MA at 1246, before retracing for the past few days, finding support in the critical 1218-1222 zone…
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LONG TERM TREND                           BEARISHINTERMEDIATE TERM TREND             BEARISHSHORT TERM TREND                         BULLISHVERY SHORT TERM TREND                BULLISH Gold found support last week at 1180 and has..
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LONG TERM TREND                            BEARISHINTERMEDIATE TERM TREND              BEARISHSHORT TERM TREND                          NEUTRAL/BULLISHVERY SHORT TERM TREND                  BEARISH After plunging over $200 following the election of President Trump (yes that’s a real thing!), gold has rebounded powerfully in 2017 in a very similar way to January..
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CITY OF CAPE TOWN [HALF DAY] Let me show you this oldest city of South Africa at its most exciting. Discover its many peoples, their traditions and cultures. The origins of this beautiful place will unfold to you. As you explore with me in this short tour I will try to show you such places..
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The Performance of Options-Based Investment Strategies: Evidence for Individual Stocks During 2003–2013 Link to full paper Abstract Using data from January, 2003, through August, 2013, we examine the relative performance of options-based investment strategies versus a buy-and-hold strategy in the underlying stock. Specifically, using ten stocks widely held in 401(k) plans, we examine monthly returns..
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The video embedded below is several years old and the video quality could be better. However, it remains an excellent introduction to options and I’m offering the lesson to everyone (at no cost). I trust you will enjoy it. http://www.mdwoptions.com/Premium/freevideos/Beginners.mp4 The video is also on You-Tube The post Introduction to Options: The Video appeared first..
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Question (black font) and answer (blue font): Dear Mark, Hello Antonio Firstly hope everything is OK as you don’t write too frequently in the blog. I am writing much less these days, and most of that appears in my about.com column. Maybe you remember me Sure I remember you because throughout the years I have..
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1. What’s your strategy on buying LEAPs options? In order to avoid time decay, when do you roll out if you have a long term view and would like to hold on the securities as long term investment? I guest the pros probably do it within at least 6 months of remaining time value? I..
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One of my basic tenets in teaching people how to trade options is that rules and guidelines should not be written in stone and that there are valid reasons for accepting or rejecting some of the ideas that I discuss. When I offer a rationale or explanation or a suggest course of action, it is..
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Interesting story in today’s Wall Street Journal online. Most people are familiar with the VIX, the CBOE Volatility Index. It uses options prices to measure the expected volatility of the S&P 500 index. A lesser known index is the RVX, the CBOE Russell 2000 Volatility Index. This uses the exact same formula as the VIX,..
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