Category | Risk Aversion

How to create a Synthetic Put

Posted on 12 November 2010

by Carley Garner of www.DeCarleyTrading.com The term synthetic is often used to describe a manmade object designed to imitate or replicate some other object. Futures and options traders can do the same thing by creating a trading vehicle through a combination of futures and options to replicate another trading instrument. You may be asking yourself; [...]

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The Gambler Verses the Steady Eddy

Posted on 05 November 2010

The Gambler Verses the Steady Eddy. Are you a Gambler or a Steady Eddy? I suppose anybody who is involved in trading has to have at least a slight tendency towards gambling, but there is gambling and gambling. Are you classified as a gambler if you buy a $1 lotto ticket each week? Do you [...]

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