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Options Trading Strategies – what is the Risk vs what you think it is?

  hundreds if not now, thousands of presentations I have done around the World, the understanding of what is risk, versus what people think it is, has been a central theme to almost each and every one and in particular when it comes to Options Trading Strategies. Earlier today, I did an interview with a finance journalist from the Straits Times, the major newspaper in Singapore and Malaysia. I have got to know the journalist quite well, over the past few years, as we have been busy in Asia and as I type, I am flying up there to host an Options trading Strategies event. One of the central themes to the interview was the common misperception out there that “Options are Risky!” and over the course of the interview, I set out the case for what proved to be the actual opposite. Options are flexible One of my senior traders was quoted not so long back as saying “options are the thinking man’s derivative” and this is a great truism. Options offer more flexibility than any oth

Australia is not shut down – we are open for business!

    Dominating the headlines over the past week has been the US shutdown – where federal workers have been told to stay at home – effectively on unpaid leave. The reason for this – since the end of the US financial year (30th Sept) a new budget for 2013/14 has yet to be approved and hence the current scenario. New Budget More broadly, and really beyond this article, is why the impasse on a new budget and its approval. The Republican party, who are opposed to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, are using the current budget deadlock as an opportunity to force the President back to the negotiating table. And this is democracy in action! Having recently gone through an election here at home, we at one point looked to be falling victim to the same scenario, where the Senate and lower house were on a potentially different page. However, that now seems to have passed and as far as Australia is concerned, we are not simply open for business but things are picking up. Busine

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