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• Adjusting Option Trades With Bill Ladd by John Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adjusting Option Trades With Bill Ladd by John Sarkett Bill Ladd, a full-time, independent option trader, spent 20-some years in the pharmaceutical industry (Burroughs Wellcome, which became Glaxo Smith/Kline) as a certified internal auditor and a certi

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: Bonus Issue 2009

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• At The Close by John A. Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by John A. Sarkett Here's a turbocharged option strategy. Francisco Antonio Urrutia, a former banker with a penchant for a single index option and risk management, has been generating stupendous returns for the past three years. In this ni

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: MAY 2010

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• Calendar Spreads With Dan Sheridan by John A. Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (18-26): Calendar Sprerads With Dan Sheridan by John A. Sarkett In the first part of a series based on a seminar on option strategies with Dan Sheridan, we take a look at calendar spreads. Options and seminars go together l

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: MAY 2007

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• Double Calendars And Condors by John A. Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (36-39): Double Calendars And Condors by John A. Sarkett In this, the second part of a series based on an option seminar with trader Dan Sheridan, we look at the double calendar and condor strategies. With a stock at 50, an

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: JUN 2007

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• Double Diagonals And Butterfly Spreads by John A. Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With Dan Sheridan (Part 3) Double Diagonals And Butterfly Spreads by John A. Sarkett The third part of this series with trader Dan Sheridan looks at double diagonals with long, protective wings one or more months out from the short options, as

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: JUL 2007

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How Great Traders Go Bad by John A. Sarkett

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: JUL 1999

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• How Secure Are Your Securities? by John A. Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Secure Are Your Securities? by John A. Sarkett How well protected are your stocks and options in your brokerage account? Two classic Zen koans and one modern riddle you may never have considered: What is the sound of one hand clapping? Does a dog h

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: FEB 2008

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• Sizing Up For Success by John Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sizing Up For Success by John Sarkett Here's a look at how an option trader started small and graduated to trading "more size." True to his name, option trader Tony Sizemore trades "more size" than most. After a long career in mortgage lending, which i

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: DEC 2009

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• The Force Index by John A. Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Force Index by John A. Sarkett Here's a little-known indicator that combines price change and volume to create a short-term and an intermediate-term trading tool. Like ocean waves, prices have an ebb and a flow. Once in a while, however, a huge sh

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: APR 1995

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• Time and Options Probabilities by John A. Sarkett

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For traders who want to use options to hedge their long positions, here are the formulas for calculating the prob-abilities. What's the probability that Intel [INTC] will be above 110 at a certain point? Three months from now, six months, a year? If you

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: DEC 1997

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Working Money: Trading And "Moneyball" by John A. Sarkett

AUTHOR: John A. SarkettDATE: NOV 2004