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General Information |
| Course/Seminar name: Stock & Index Options Trading Seminar
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| Cost (flat fee or per hour rate): $329. Includes lunch.
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This course/seminar would be best suited for:
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Course/Seminar taught via:
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Brief explanation of Course/Seminar
Vertical spreads, risk control, faulty strategies, Verticals vs. long calls, Timing. Duration. Size. Methods of adjusting. When tampering backfires. How to avoid turning profits into losses. Quantifying risk in dollar terms. Applying GTC stops. Planning every trade. How to avoid convoluting a strategy. Butterfly and time spreads -- effective? How a steady diet of selling puts against cash can stifle your return. Truth about buy-writes. Selling Puts Options specialist and broker Jerry Kopf describes how this strategy offers advantages the buy-write lacks.
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Background Information
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| Course/Seminar instructor(s): Jerry Kopf, Alex Jacobson, Frank Tirado , John A. Sarkett
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Brief explanation of instructor(s) experience:
How Not to Get Poor Trading Options Chicago Board Options Exchange Options Institute vice President Alex Jacobson tackles this subject. Additionally, he will detail how the new Volatility Index (VIX) can help you gauge premium levels and its role as a market forecaster. As senior staff member of the Options Institute, Alex serve as an instructor for training programs at Salomon Brothers, Lehmann Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and others. LEAPS Frank Tirado from the Options Institute. This CBOE director and instructor will describe how LEAPS are used and the ways they can improve your trading. Option Wizard for Excel: Premium Decay, Percent to Double, Probabilities. John A. Sarkett, developer of Option Wizard Online shows how you can harness the awesome power of the Internet in Microsoft Excel to price and analyze options. An award-winning software package, his Option Wizard Online is powerful, simple and insightful. Its one click technology downloads historical volatilities, stock and options prices, and historical stock prices. It then calculates implied volatilities, probabilities, fair value, percent to double and much, much more and displays results in an unusually intuitive style unlike many programs. "Poetry for Excel" is what one options trader calls it.
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| Time required to complete the course/seminar: 1 day
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Course/Seminar location(s) (if travel required):
March or April, 2001. Place and date to be determined.
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Details
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Markets followed:
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| Is a computer required for the course/seminar? No
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| Is software required for the course/seminar? No
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| Is software supplied with the course/seminar? No
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Resources provided:
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Course/Seminar topics:
| Technical analysis
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Futures and Options trading
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Trading software instruction
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Other topics:
N/A
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Support:
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Additional comments:
Register by credit card: $329. Includes lunch. Maximum participants: 50. One new trading idea, successfully applied, will return you many times the cost of the seminar.
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