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Brian
began commodity trading for discretionary accounts
as an exempt CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) in
February 1994.
Later that year, he was the co-founder of
Trident Pacific Trading, Ltd., specializing in commodity
trading for private accounts.
To further Brian's professional development,
he entered the commodity brokers and options
strategist field and was directly responsible for
supervising over 70 accounts at Opportunities in
Options. From
June 2002 to July 2005 he co-published possibly
the oldest commodity trading publication in existence
- the Commodity Timing Report - with legendary author,
lecturer, and futures trader Larry Williams.
He is now an independent futures & options
specialist servicing established commodity brokerage
firms, working with private traders, commodity brokers,
commodity producers, and financial consultants abroad.
Brian has been educated, and is endorsed,
by many accredited names in the industry and is
a man of faith, family, and leadership.
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AUTHOR TEAM |
Adam Oliensis
Andy Chambers
Brian Schad
Chuck
Hughes
Darrell
Jobman
Dave
Caplan
Gary
Wagner
George
Angell
George
Fontanills
Glenn
Neely
Jack Schwager
Jon
Najarian
John
Weston
Larry
Connors
Larry
Williams
Lawrence
McMillan
Lee
Gettess
Mark Fisher
Murray
Ruggiero
Paul
Forchione
Peter
McKenna
Ray
Frazier
Russell
Sands
Scott
Krieger
Ted
Tesser
Tom
DeMark
Tony
Catalfamo
Welles
Wilder
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Inside
Trading
offers
you
interesting
insight
from
Brian
Schad
this
week.
In
his
article,
Brian
explains
options
and
how
they
are
best
used.
Lee
Gettess
provides
the
next
segment
with
a
video
covering
his
market
expectations
for
the
next
week.
Then,
we
go
back
to
the
discussion
of
options
as
Chuck
introduces
an
option
spread
strategy
that
will
allow
you
to
profit
regardless
of
whether
your
underlying
stock
goes
up
or
down.
Don
Wellenreiter
wraps
up
this
edition
with
the
benefits
and
pitfalls
of
paper
trading.
Enjoy!
Adrienne LaVigne
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By:
Brian
Schad
The
following is an excerpt from Brian Schad's The
3-Dimensional Trading Breakthrough
Options
were primarily developed as financial tools used
to manage business risk, because they allow business
operators to pay an up-front defined premium (or
fee) for the chance to protect themselves from adverse
price movements due to unforeseen circumstances
(volatility).
Many people mistakenly assume that options
strictly exist as speculative instruments and have
only been created recently.
However, the use of options as risk-hedging
tools has actually been in practice for many centuries.
In the past few decades, options have become
popularized.
Options continue to be used as a risk-management
strategy by professional traders and large commercial
firms. I
am going to demonstrate how individual traders can
successfully incorporate the use of options into
a "low-risk" management trading style used in conjunction
with futures contracts.
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Gettess' Market Sense |
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Lee
Gettess is a top trader who is excited to bring
you his new video newsletter. Each week, Lee will
share his predictions on what he anticipates from
the bond and S&P markets.
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How to Profit if a Stock Goes Up or
Down
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By:
Chuck
Hughes
The
following is an excerpt of Chuck Hughes' Market
Volatility Profit Secrets
The
option spread strategy presented in this article has
one of the best overall risk/reward profiles of any
of the strategies I trade.
When you buy an out-of-the-money call option
the premium consists of only time value and the price
of the underlying stock has to rise considerably (depending
on the strike price of the call) in order to break even
on the trade.
This is a result of the time decay characteristics
of options as they approach expiration.
Options lose all time value at option expiration.
For example, today is August 20th
and Apple stock is currently trading at 123.22.
The Apple September 140-Strike call option s
trading at 2.35 points and expires in about 5 weeks.
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Paper Trading Benefits and Pitfalls
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The
following is an excerpt from Don Wellenreiter's Millionaire
Secrets for the Average Guy
For
many newcomers, their first type of trading is paper
trading. This
is where you trade the market as if it were real,
except that orders are not actually entered, so you
won't experience actual losses or gains.
This really is a good way for someone to learn
some of the basics of trading without facing a large
loss due to inexperience.
Using a charting service or getting the information
from the internet, the new trader can track a commodity
and plan his strategy for trading.
There are even websites that offer trading
contests with artificial accounts, but still have
real prize money that you can win.
This is where you can test a trend following
system, a break out system, or a counter-trend program
on as many commodities as you wish, since you are
not limited by your margin requirement.
While you could paper trade numerous commodities
at one time, I do not believe that there are many
traders out there that can effectively trade more
than a handful of markets at once.
Find a market(s) you understand and stick with
it.
Paper
trading versus reality
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The
3-Dimensional Trading™
Breakthrough
A Definitive Method For Enhancing Profits & Minimizing
Loss
What
trader hasn't experienced this: Put your stop
too tight and you get  stopped
out of what later becomes a profitable trade. . .Put
your stop to wide and your account gets clobbered
by crippling losses. . .Try to hit middle ground and
somehow you get stung once again!
No
wonder Brian Schad, former Navy SEAL and 15-year trading
professional, refers to stop-loss orders as the Trader's
Death-Trap.
Learn
more about 3-Dimensional Trading Breakthrough
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