Many novice traders think that options are a great idea: You buy unlimited potential to profit and a guaranteed stop-loss which you can quantify right from the very beginning. What’s not to like? But as my daughter found out on […]
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Low, low volatility: Vix versus the rest
The Vix index, originally developed by Menachem Brenner and Dan Galai in 1986, was launched as a futures contract in 2004 on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (then options on this future introduced in 2006). It followed the stock market […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Trading, Trending
Tags: options, Portfolio, volatility
Tags: options, Portfolio, volatility
Nicole Elliott Interview series: Anne Whitby FSTA
Anne Whitby FSTA kicks off our series of interviews with leading technical analysts. As part of our social media programme, and in an effort to help and educate budding professional and amateur chartists, this series aims at giving a light-hearted […]
An old-fashioned line chart For today’s volatility
Only economists use line charts. We technical analysts have developed far more sophisticated methods, first bar charts, then bar charts with opening and closing levels which morphed into candlesticks, not forgetting those with no time scale along the bottom like Point & Figure, Renko, and the Japanese Three Line Break.
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Trading
Tags: bar chart, candles, FX, line chart, options, volatility
Tags: bar chart, candles, FX, line chart, options, volatility
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