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REPLAY: Round Table with Bill Ghauri
Bill Ghauri presented “What Automated BackTesting Taught Me about Risk/Money Management.” Bill custom coded his own option back testing platform using MS SQL server and Excel. He showed how important controlling risk and sizing your positions. Bill is managing several portfolio margin accounts using this style of trading and has very simple trade management.
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The Round Table with Bill Ghauri on Thursday Feb 26th
Bill Ghauri will present “What Automated Back Testing Taught Me about Risk/Money Management” on the Round Table on Thursday, Feb 26th at 4:30pm ET.
Bill will cover:
- The importance of risk and money management
- To have a good reason to enter a trade – You might find yourself becoming a directional trader!
- How he uses automation to create, test and verify trading strategies and risk/money management plans
- And more…
REPLAY: Round Table with Dan Passarelli
Dan Passarelli, from Market Taker, presented “How Time Spreads Can Profit From High Volatility with Limited Risk.” Dan covered the basics of time spreads and showed how volatility in the front month doesn't necessarily mean it's time to buy LEAPS due to the volatility term structure.
Dan answered many questions about volatility and trading. We thank Dan for appearing on the Round Table.
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Market Analysis for Feb 23, 2015
Himanshu Raval showed how he uses Woodie's CCI. Himanshu answered many questions and did a great walk through of how to use Woodie's CCI and how he uses it to generate buy and sell signals.
The Round Table with Dan Passarelli on Wednesday Feb 25th
Dan Passarelli, from Market Taker, will present “How Time Spreads Can Profit From High Volatility With Limited Risk” on the Round Table on Thursday, Feb 25th at 4:30pm ET.
Dan will cover:
- How to set up time spreads using term structure without falling for common volatility trap
- How to limit risk far beyond maximum loss scenarios using active management techniques
- His time-tested methodology for setting up time spreads
- And more…
REPLAY: Round Table with Jim Riggio and Paul Demers
Jim Riggio and Paul Demers discuss Managing by the Greeks. The presentation discussed option greek ratios. Brian Johnson's book, Option Strategy Risk / Return Ratios: A Revolutionary New Approach to Optimizing, Adjusting, and Trading Any Option Income Strategy, has taken the old Delta/Theta and Vega/Theta ratios to the next step by incorporating the volatility of volatility. The author, Brian Johnson, attended and participated in the chat.
Paul Demers showed his spreadsheet that he is developing to try to accurately estimate vega in multi-expiration option spreads by using weighted vega.
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REPLAY: Round Table with Himanshu Raval
Himanshu Raval, aka “the Calendar King”, presented “Calendars for Consistent Income.” Himanshu has traded Calendar spreads for many years and showed why he likes calendar spreads. Himanshu walked through a hypothetical calendar trade during a severe market decline to show how he would trade through the move.
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The Round Table with Himanshu Raval on Thursday Feb 12th
Himanshu Raval, aka the “Calendar King”, presents Calendars for Monthly Income on Thursday February 12th at 4:30pm Eastern Time. Himanshu was written up in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine in an article detailing his success as a calendar spread trader.
In this webinar, Himanshu will review what Calendars are, how to hedge with them and how to use Calendars as a stock replacement.
Market Analysis for Feb 9, 2015
Jim Riggio and Tom Nunamaker were joined by Jerry Furst, from Traders Education Network, to analyze the current markets. Jerry explained his analysis of the market using technical analysis. Jim showed how the markets are getting more volatile. Both Jerry and Jim agreed that the market seems to be preparing to make a big move.
REPLAY: Round Table with Larry Richards
Larry Richards and David Wilt, from QuantyCarlo, presented their new automated option back testing software.
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