ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Options? Let's get real by Ana Maria Wilson When it comes to speculating in options, most players are losers (in bottom-line, real-life-transactions) who fall into two groups: most novices, and the war-scarred veterans struggling to survive. Both groups, however, share the same passionate goal: to crack the code that will put them on the winning side. Because everyone seems convinced the key to the code is lying out there somewhere, the search usually steers to the rich and unending universe of trade literature on the subject. If it has ""options"" in the title, the read is on. Let's face it...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Are you piloting your trading with safety? by Ana Maria Wilson As a full-time trader of highly speculative stock and commodity options armed with a basically sound system, I'm always looking for ways to strengthen the weakest link in my trading program: the human factor. Specifically, I find challenge in maintaining the discipline to respect a set of trading criteria that I've: ? designed to protect profits and preserve capital, ? arrived at after much research and not a few costly mistakes, and ? laid down clearly in writing to avoid any deviation from a prudent trading path. I regret to...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Who said greed is dead? by Ana Marie Wilson For the past two years I have been a dedicated student of the stock market and a voracious reader of a great number of financial publications. I was determined to become a thoroughly sophisticated investor and I knew that information was the key. I designed a reading regimen that would help me achieve my goal and quickly learned to avoid the traps. You see, these fine publications, along with their erudite articles, carry an endless string of advertisements whose implied message is that if you buy their product, whatever that may be, your future fi...