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What I meant above was this program is not designed for general retail investors/traders who are not QEPs (Qualified Eligible Participants/Persons). Practically QEPs (almost All ETers) as retail investors/traders are welcome to directly subscribe our signal service on C2, without channeling...

McMillian (Options as a Strategic Investment, page 653): "Hedging The Primary economic function of futures markets is hedging, - taking a futures position to offset the risk of actually owning the physical commodity." Smithson has a book "Managing Financial Risk" of total 663 pages talking...

Collars impose upside limitation of profits to the equity portfolio. That would be the major drawback against the primary objective of investing/trading, that causes a problem whether an astute investor/trader wants to use collars or not. Common investors/traders, who earn only small returns...

Maximizing Value in Volatile Commodity Markets http://riskjournal.oliverwyman.com/2011/05/29/maximizing-value-in-volatile-commodity-markets/ "Political unrest in the Middle East combined with the aftermath of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami have ushered in a new stage of volatile...

Fuel Hedging In Volatile Markets With Call Option Spreads Posted on Tue, Nov 22, 2011 Email This http://www.mercatusenergy.com/blog/bid/71376/Fuel-Hedging-In-Volatile-Markets-With-Call-Option-Spreads "It can't be denied that the recent volatility in the oil and fuel markets is proving to...

Why Oil Prices Are So Volatile By Cait Murphy http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-51337483/why-oil-prices-are-so-volatile/ " (MoneyWatch) Over the past two years, the price you've paid for a gallon of gas has ranged from an average of $1.60 to $4.11. To use an economic...

Two sources below: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3401258#post3401258 Q Hedging with Options 2. Selling Calls for Income ... However, the sale of calls provides no substantial protection against a large break in the market, unlike the put purchase. ---...

Tail Risk Hedging: A Roadmap for Asset Owners Tail Risk Protection Indices. Volatility-based tail risk protection indices are rapidly becoming a popular choice as overlay equity tail risk hedges. http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Tail-Risk-Hedging-May2010.pdf

OSU experiments with equity overlay hedge The university foundation increased an equity overlay sixfold to test protection in down markets By Barry B. Burr Published: September 28, 2011 http://www.pionline.com/article/20110928/REG/110929936 Q A guiding principle of the Oklahoma State...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=233645 Equity hedging has been mentioned many many times on ET, wanting to find good solutions. I now would like to propose a simple equity overlay system for discussion. I want the equity overlay hedge system to be not only...

Baird (Option Market Making): "Paradoxicallly, sudden sharp futures price change (up or down) may occur in conjunction with falling implied volitilities. ... Although the options traders were correct about price movement, they were whipsawed by the market's changing estimate of volitility...

Perhaps don't forget that on page 203: It is Absolutely Necessary to have an "Edge". "You can't win without an edge, ... Incidentally, if you don't know what your edge is, you don't have one. --- The New Market Wizards, page 463" "Make sure you have the edge. Know what your edge is. Have...

Sometimes a trader using buying long options strategy has to prepare some occassional (painful?) disappointments of "Losing money when the market actually goes in his favour". This kind of unusual losses is mainly due to decrease of implied volatility caused by steady slow movement of...

Found another buying long options thread. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=125048&highlight=option*

C2 is particularly good for some others reasons. For this first system (Long-Call/Put SPY Options), sometimes it does not trade at all for several weeks. The capital allocated to this system will be sitting there by doing nothing while awaiting next signal, probably suddenly getting one...

Haven't started yet till today with the first signal. All the changed names were with the same system numbered 68597112.

Practically we changed the name of this very 1st system with C2 almost every two weeks. The last time was after reading your post above. We would like to prove several options-based systems/ideas, but there are certain limitations with C2 (or Covestor), such as options on futures is not...

How much for your weekly options newsletter? :)

Most likely Highly Unlikely! You couldn't, as if you're not an excellent timer. It will take many years to be a good timer, if you're very lucky, before becoming an excellent one. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3391054#post3391054 Frankly speaking: You need to...