In the last 3 months prices of CBOT wheat futures are lower by 20% trading lower by $2/bushel. Prices have completed more than a 61.8% Fibonacci retracement but last week it appears an interim low was established.
Waving of the Wheat
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Moneyness and AAPL
Moneyness isn?t a word, is it? Dan uses it often and he even has a section about it in his books. It won?t be found on spell-check, but moneyness is a very important term when it comes to learning to trade options.
Will Silver Dip Below $30?
As of this post silver is trading higher by 1.87% trading at its 200 day MA; identified by the light blue line.
OIC Announces Winter, Spring 2013 Seminar Schedules
OIC introduces its winter and spring seminar schedule.
Who Likes to Work for Free?
Hello traders! Have you ever had one of those weeks, or months even, where everything seemed to go your way?
Time and Target
In our Professional Trader courses at Online Trading Academy, we teach our students to stay away from the danger zones of the market. One of these danger zones includes the opening 15-20 minutes of the trading day.
The Minefield Garden
The day someone decides they are going to pursue a trading career, they are typically making that decision because of the potential financial prize.
VIX Term Structure is Tipping the Markets’ Hand
As I listen to traders belly ache about the ‘low VIX’ I ask them, why should the VIX be high?
The Market Is as Nervous as Ever About Austerity Fetishism
In a recent note, Goldman Sachs economist Alec Phillips wonders whether the market is becoming less sensitive to political brinksmanship:
Option Block 211: VIX Apocalypse Redux
Hyperbole? Perhaps, but it was still true. Biggest VIX decline ever.
Volatility Trading Digest – Strategy Ideas
We suspect underinvestment was the order of the day at yearend waiting the outcome of fiscal cliff wrangling in Washington DC. Accordingly, here are two new long ideas.
Volatility Trading Digest – The Market Tide Turns
Understandably the markets often give conflicting signals, some bullish, some bearish, but that was not the case for shortened last week as the markets discounted improving economic conditions and a somewhat less uncertain fiscal environment in Washington DC.