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    Neophyte Question on SPX Straddle

    The multiplier is $100 x a point so your straddle would cost - 235.90 x $100 = $23,590.
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    Calculating 2 Standard Deviation Move through IV

    If you get 1SD - just multiply it times 2.
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    Where to go to learn options???

    www.cboe.com/learncenter Use anything that's free before starting to spend money on education.
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    Impactopia / Market Topology

    Thanks for the note, it's actually back up tonight. Yes, that's how I spend my Saturday nights now...
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    Impactopia / Market Topology

    Does anyone know what happened to www.impactopia.com or www.market-topology.com? Anyone aware of a good alternative to the service these guys provided?
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    Trading Options at Expiration

    "You've never lived until a stock beats earnings and pins your call butterfly's sweet spot. " Sounds like RIMM.....
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    The Opening Orders Thread

    Try this if you are truly interested in how it is calculated. http://somweb.gmu.edu/~ghanweck/MBA704/Calculating%20Fair%20Value.doc
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    Repository of Option Theory Papers

    Thanks, this will keep me away from real porn for a while.
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    Currency Options

    Try the ISE Currency Options - http://www.ise.com/WebForm/viewPage.aspx?categoryId=98&header0=true&menu2=true&link1=true
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    Expiration Day

    I have not seen the article yet, but the book would be Jeff Augen's Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgame. I've read it and it had some pretty interesting ideas.
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    Binary option

    http://www.cboe.com/micro/binaries/introduction.aspx
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    options and shortselling.

    There's a good book just out about trading around expriation - Trading Options At Expiration (of all things) by Jeff Augen
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    Guess the Visa BID-ASK at 9:29 am IPO

    51 x 52, but rallying from there to shake out the flippers and give the long term holders a chance to buy.
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    CFA Level 3 Materials

    That was quick, materials sold.
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    CFA Level 3 Materials

    Doing some house cleaning and came across my CFA materials from 2007. Figured before tossing them out I would put them on here to see if there are any takers. I'm in Chicago so a Chicago purchaser would be perfect if a handoff could be arranged. Here's what I have all 2007 related...
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    So tell me why I should trade currency futures instead of forex?

    I am really a novice at the forex market so I ran both the futures and spot assuming no slippage and no commissions, probably not the best real world way to do this for real world trading, but I figured it was OK for comparison sake between the two.
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    So tell me why I should trade currency futures instead of forex?

    I'm not making an argument either way, but I did want to address one part of your question. I currently trade the currency futures and not spot, mainly because I've been doing things that way for years. However I recently had a potential client ask me to backtest my system on spot as opposed to...
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    Data

    I've been primarily a futures trader the past few years, but would like to research applying some of my longer term (1 - 2 month) trades to option spreads instead of pure futures positions. The range of product goes from the softs, energy, currencies, grains, bond, and index futures. That...
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    Is this to be worried?

    What if they figure out his strategy and then publish a book, then he's totally screwed.
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    Copper ETF?

    I see one trading in London - COPA LN is the Bloomberg symbol.
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