Retailers do need to prepare well in advance for their holiday season and make sure they cash upon in every possible way to earn decent profits. In he beginning retailers have to keep interacting with customers and ascertain their feedback and reviews on products and services sold by them. They need to understand the consumer behaviour and shopping pattern well in advance before launching a holiday season and promotional...more
College education is often a serious achievement, but it may also be a grand failure that is likely to take away several years of life and give nothing attributable to real-time needs of any mature individual going to start working. There is a set of common mistakes in college choice that students make every year, so every individual needs to be aware of them before making the final decision on where to apply. The present article is...more
In today's article we'll be exploring another dimension to risk while trading options. Most people only consider the mathematical probability of a trade, but as an option trader myself I always consider the "Comfort Zone." You may ask what is this so called Comfort Zone?The Comfort Zone is a place where I can relax knowing that my option position is perfectly safe. Not only is my position not at risk, but I can also make money in the Comfort Zone. In this video we are looking at traditional Iron Condor. We notice that when we consider the Comfort Zone, the probability of the trade is only about 36%. This is a very low probability. If we consider the probability on the trade ignoring the Comfort Zone then it's actually about 83%. This means that the majority of the probability on this trade is actually in the "Danger Zone". To me, this is a very risky and stressful trade to be in.From observing the Calendar Spreads and ATM Butterflies, one can easily state that the Comfort Zone they hold is similar to that of the Iron Condor. An unstable market can make these trades very difficult to manage. It is not only because these trades have a very small Comfort Zone but it is also because of...more
Washing your car is one of the basic steps on keeping it look good and new. Every car owner wants to maintain its inner and outer original appearance. With a hose, plenty of water, soap, towel and sponge, you can do it easily all by yourself. But what if your car has a vinyl-covered roof?The vinyl covering used on tops of the cars is subject to...more
In Mr. Arthur Koestler's book, The Act of Creation, he discusses the logic of laughter. I have recently written about Mr. John Cleese and his thoughts regarding humor and what is needed in order to be creative. Both men share similar ideas which can be applied to trading models and trading systems. Mr. Koestler states that humor...more
I was recently scanning some performance databases of various trading systems and CTAs and noticed that almost all the tracking services have some form of a hot list. These were usually a list of the best performing systems or CTAs over a given period. The typical time frames for measuring performance were usually 30 days, 90 days and a year. These lists are of interest to many viewers because they are consistently reported by all the leading tracking services year after year. The question is thisAre those lists of any value?It has long been my contention that such information is near meaningless. I have always felt that the best performing systems and CTAs of the past were not likely to be the best performing ones moving forward. To test my theory, I accumulated data from several of the top performance reporting sites. What I wanted to see was the previous years best performers to compare them to the best performers of the next year. The idea was to see if last years winners were a reliable predictor of next years winners.The results of comparing many years of previous performance to the subsequent years of performance were as I expected. The information about which systems and...more
What is the oscillator?An oscillator is a technical indicator that tells at a glance whether a security currently trades in an "overbought" or "oversold" condition.What are the meaning of "overbought" and "oversold"?Overbought means the...more
Swing Trading is known as an approach which consists of the process of day trading. Stock traders currency departments and futures utilize this kind of method to make surplus amounts of revenue.Should you discover day trading quite...more
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Having a trading plan is not going to make you a sudden millionaire. I mean, there are a dozen things that can possible be go wrong in the market, even with a plan, that a profit isn't exactly guaranteed. But then, it would be a lot easier if you can...more