A full calendar around graduation means I haven’t had time to update the blog with the usual, but in lieu of research I thought I’d do a small dump here of some open browser tabs, in case you...
The weekly Volatility Tracker will be back on January 4th, 2010. I’ll post a quarterly performance review for the newsletter later this week.
In the mean time, here’s an updated list of the services we offer. As you’re making plans for 2010, you might consider whether any of the below are of interest; please contact us with any questions or for more information.
Condor Options newsletter (iron condors)
Calendar Options newsletter (calendar spreads)
Managed Accounts (volatility arbitrage program)
Options…
Investors are notorious for chasing performance. If a mutual fund or advisor or trading strategy has done well recently, chances are much greater that traders will commit money to that strategy or product, often independently of the long term performance, general suitability, or distinguishing features of the strategy or product. I’ve seen the same behavior among the audience for our paid newsletters: after a winning month, new subscribers are more likely to rush in, and if we have a flat…
My research agenda – finance and otherwise – is longer than ever and I’m equally further behind. One thing blogging has taught us all is that the pace of thought required to tackle complicated, multi-faceted problems is often incongruous with the pace at which pithy bloggers operate. Imagine if the Critique of Pure Reason had been published in two-hundred-word pieces. Shudder.
So given the choice between research progress and consistency in blogging, I want to opt for the former. But…
I’ve gotten increasingly selective about recommending finance sites and blogs over the years, mostly because we all have finite amounts of time and attention, and the financial blogosphere keeps expanding even though our pathetic simian capacities do not. My Top Finance Blogs of 2008 was well-received and I might make that a regular annual feature. Until then, here are some sources that deserve a look:
David Varadi at CSS Analytics has just started blogging regularly, and he’s…
We’ve had quite a few new readers stopping by of late, so this is just a quick post to orient everyone to the site. Here are the seven things you can do here:
Subscribe to the paid newsletters. Aside from the monthly performance reviews that we post, we keep pretty quiet about the paid newsletters on this free blog (because advertising and self-promotion are basically evil, and it’s debatable whether they’re a necessary evil). But even so, it…
In addition to the commentary published here, we have several other projects going. Over the next several months, posting on this (free) blog may be a bit lighter than normal as we devote more of our energy to the following:
Newsletters: Our iron condor newsletter had one of its best months ever in February and our new calendar spreads newsletter is off to a great start. Our subscribers seem to appreciate the attention we pay to risk management,…
Our head trader, Jared Woodard, will be presenting a free seminar tonight:
Using Iron Condors to Profit From Fear
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
9PM EST / 6PM PST
Commodity Trading School
http://www.commoditytradingschool.com/
“Using Iron Condors to Profit from Fear” will cover the structure and purpose of iron condor options spreads, and will explain how traders can use iron condors to generate income during periods of high volatility and uncertainty in the markets.
Jared gave…
We are pleased to announce that we have added two more brokers to our list of participating autotrading providers. Just to review, autotrading is offered as an educational supplement for traders who are unfamiliar with our strategy or are getting accustomed to a new trading platform; autotrading is not appropriate or permitted for use as a capital management service.
eOption is a division of Regal Securities, a broker-dealer that has been trading options since 1975. eOption offers…
Here’s some of what’s new at Condor Options:
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. We’re now on our own private server, so that our site and emails and other critical components are skippier and more stable than ever.
Fresh Look and Improved Usability, thanks to Nate at FortySeven Media, who did an amazing job and is a fantastic person to work with. A good designer has to be creative, technically savvy, and patient, and Nate manages to be all of…
We’re pleased to announce that we have joined the optionsXpress Xecute autotrading program, which means that, if you’re a subscriber, you can now have our newsletter positions autotraded in your optionsXpress account.
optionsXpress is consistently ranked as one of the top options brokerages by Barron’s and others, and they’ve been around since 2000 – an eternity in the young world of retail options brokers. OXPS have some very well-developed trading tools and screeners available for customers, and…
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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