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Short Term Trading Strategies That Work (Review)

Friday, January 9, 2009

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As technology advances, the variety of tools and strategies available to individual traders increases accordingly, and for newer traders the sheer number of techniques and strategies on offer can be daunting. Short Term Trading Strategies That Work by Larry Connors is a nice introduction to some of the trading rules and strategies that have proven consistently helpful for navigating the markets. One of the best things about this text is that each strategy or technique is treated in quantitative terms. Even perennial…

Fire and Forget: Iron Condors Have Built-in Hard Stops

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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We’ve actually made this point before, but it bears repeating: iron condors have hard stops already built in. They’re called “long strikes.” So risk management is incredibly easy when you’re trading condors – it’s simply a question of determining how much capital you’re prepared to lose on any one position, and then selecting the appropriate number of contracts for your trade. Then fire and forget. You don’t need to set some arbitrary mental point at which you’ll exit the trade at…

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Short Term Trading Strategies That Work (Review)

Fire and Forget: Iron Condors Have Built-in Hard Stops

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