May 10, 2008Not as well explained as some.. here is the TradeKing announcement of their offering. HedgeStreet is also an innovator in this area. Go to there or Gogle for lots of detail. I have, and I’ll just give a summary of what I think I understand these derivatives to be.
A Binary or FRO is much like […]
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May 8, 2008How are the markets doing for you? Fantastic for me.
Spotted this at Crossing Wall Street:
Buffett arranged his multibillion-dollar positions by selling puts on these indexes. Berkshire will only have to make payments if the respective indexes fall below the levels they were issued at. “In the meantime, the premiums we have received are ours to […]
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May 6, 2008I was just reading over the VIX page on the CBOE site and there are some good resources if you scroll down the page, including this graph:
In short, that shows that having 20% of a stock portfolio in VDX futures will reduce portfolio volatility a good deal, while hardly affecting your return. There are a […]
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April 11, 2008If you haven’t tried Mint.com give it a shot - it allows you to get a single snap shot of your balances and debts across multiple accounts. It even gets some obscure ones, like 401k balances in many 401k programs.
In the last few days, balances for both Think or Swim and Optionshouse show up… sweet!
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