Review
“The Structured Credit Handbook is an outstanding achievement. It provides and excellent and well-written tutorial on all aspects of structured credit markets and includes many interesting examples and applications. The book brings a wealth of institutional knowledge together with first-class economic analysis by some of the leading [...]
Like most trades, time spreads have a maximum loss for the buyer. As a buyer, you can only lose what you have spent. If you paid $1.00 for the spread then your maximum potential loss is that $1.00. If you bought the spread for $2.00, then $2.00 is the maximum potential loss.
The buyer of a [...]
The Sub Prime problem arrived in an economy growing at over 3%. It is disturbing to speculate what will happen to the substantially weakened banks if there is a long recession and the vast bulk of medium rated mortgage risk and possibly even the huge Junk bond market come under, not just the current valuation [...]
What is Asset-Based Lending?
Asset-based financial services organizations (asset-based lenders) play a vital part in financing the economy and are dedicated to the growth and well-being of their clients. They provide their clients with cash by lending on fixed assets, accounts receivable and inventory, and engage in factoring, purchase order financing, real estate financing and leasing. [...]
Written on 15th February 2008 (see below for further updates)
I thought I’d provide an example of a Bull Call Spread (BCS) using the Commonwealth Bank as an example. There is a lot of volatility in the market at the moment. If you have studied my course then you will know that high volatility [...]
To truly get an accurate picture of a comparison between the likelihood of success for two different strategies, we must use a real life example, and compare ‘apples to apples’. We are going to do that here with two strategies: That is, we will compare selling ‘at the money’ Put options (spreads) with buying ‘at [...]
In the past, trading on the movement and price direction of financial markets was largely the preserve of major banks, high net worth individuals and sophisticated investment houses. However, the advent of online applications like the Internet has now made it possible for retail investors with limited capital to trade worldwide financial markets in exactly [...]
In such volatile times there will always be opportunities to make a profit and plenty of opportunities to lose more.One industry that has been thriving is the spread betting industry. Whilst there is currently a ban on shorting financial stocks, investors are still enjoying the ability to buy and sell indices like the FTSE 100, [...]
I started trading options in the late 90’s. After selling my first option and collecting an immediate credit I and became an option seller for life. I became a student of option selling strategies and started selling covered calls on stocks I brought and owned. I was doing OK collecting premiums month after month until [...]
Ratio backspreads are considered to be one of the safest longer term option trading strategies available today. So much so, that they have sometimes been called “vacation spreads” because you can literally take a holiday and come back later to find they’ve made a profit for you.The word “ratio” in this strategy gives us a [...]