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using spreads to offset premiums – get free options!

Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 1:58 am. Comments Off on using spreads to offset premiums – get free options!.
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Since October I have been attending a very expensive University. All the classes are self taught, all they provide is the classroom in the form of the stock market.  If you learn your lessons well, eventually you’ll get paid to attend. It’s kinda funny because I went through this same thing with poker. I played […]

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Straddle Followup

Published on 18 Jan 2009 at 5:01 pm. No Comments.
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It’s been a while since I posted anything. Life has it’s ways of smacking you around sometimes. I did play with straddles a little as I talked about in my last post. I did one shortly after that post on GM on 11/12 when it was trading around 3.50. This was going into the hearings […]

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fumbling through the market – today collars

Published on 8 Nov 2008 at 2:11 am. No Comments.
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As previously stated I know very little of the stock market but it has become an interest of mine lately after discovering different plays that are possible. It’s similar to poker in that you try to make the best decision possible with limited information. However there are more ways to hedge your bets. As I […]

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Some Profitable Risks In This Stock Market

Published on 2 Nov 2008 at 1:05 pm. No Comments.
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First off I don’t claim to be any kind of Investment Guru or have any kind real knowledge on the matter whatsoever. However for those that know me, what you know is that I am is a risk taker, but a calculated risk taker. I don’t think I have to tell anyone that the stock […]

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