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]
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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]