Archive for December, 2009

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  Market Primer, 12-27
  stevenplace, December 27th, 2009 at 9:06 pm, Comments: 0

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  New Commodity Trade
  stevenplace, December 22nd, 2009 at 12:39 pm, Comments: 0

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  How Option Expiration Turned Out for My Subscribers
  stevenplace, December 21st, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Comments: 0

  I love opex. Equity options have very interesting characteristics like discontinuities in gamma and very fast theta (time decay).
  So when opex comes around, I provide my subscribers with a list of ideas for trading that day– this month we focused strictly on option selling with 1 day left. I also provided a video explaining the [...]

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  Market Primer 12-20
  stevenplace, December 20th, 2009 at 10:41 pm, Comments: 0

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• December Trade Review
  stevenplace, December 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Comments: 0

  A couple things to note:

  This doesn’t take into account commissions. So if you have some absurd commission structure with your broker (2.50/contract + 8/trade) then your return is significantly diminished.
  These fills are not necessarily the fills that the market gave to subscribers. Sometimes there was a much better fill 30 minutes after I put the [...]

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  New Ag Trade
  stevenplace, December 18th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, Comments: 0

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  Friday Trade Management
  stevenplace, December 18th, 2009 at 10:59 am, Comments: 0

  Here’s the list of adjustments to plays if you haven’t closed out already:
  AAPL
  Put verticals expire worthless, no need to adjust.
  FAZ
  Put sales expire worthless, no need to adjust.
  GLD
  Iron condors expire worthless, no need to adjust.
  GNK
  We have Dec 24 puts sold. If we hold it to expiration, we will get assigned 200 shares of GNK at [...]

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  Market Wrap and Opex Ideas, 12-17
  stevenplace, December 17th, 2009 at 9:47 pm, Comments: 0

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  Portfolio Review, 12-17
  stevenplace, December 17th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, Comments: 0

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  Happy Hour Live Video Here
  stevenplace, December 16th, 2009 at 5:32 pm, Comments: 0

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