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A brief summary of the Greeks for vacationers

Options traders look at Greeks one way. Vacationers look at them another way. Here’s what you need to know about the Greeks for vacationers this year: They are having trouble getting their economy going, especially to the satisfaction of European Union officials. Meanwhile, the Bank of England has been forced to confirm that it has… [Read More]

A brief summary of the Greeks for options

I’m working on a book about options trading while also doing the blogathon, possibly because I am insane, but the good news is that there is overlap. Today, it’s a summary of the Greeks for options. Options traders use Greek letters to explain different concepts because Greek letters are used to represent variables in mathematics…. [Read More]

Guest Post: How Well Are You Managing Your Biggest Asset?

Your biggest asset is your career. This is a guest post written by Holly Gillian Kindel, a senior financial advisor at Mosaic Financial Partners. The company is a financial planning firm that has developed a free financial fitness challenge to help people figure out their financial life.   When you think of assets, your first… [Read More]

Notes from a recent tour of the CBOE

Over the years, I have had the opportunity to go on the floor of four major U.S. exchanges – the NYSE, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The floors are closed to the general public; even visitors galleries were closed after September 11, 2001. It’s a big… [Read More]

The 2015 blogathon haiku

A standard feature of the blogathon is a haiku, and as we’re a week in and I have no ideas for today’s post, here it is: a haiku. The blogathon is A workout for a writer’s Creativity Poetry is deceptively simple, and that bad one lets me check off a blogathon box. I even used… [Read More]

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