| Instructor: | Jeff Augen |
| Description: | Today's equity markets have become a gambling casino where stock prices are often unrelated to the underlying performance of the companies they represent. The result has been the greatest destruction of wealth in history, and long-term investors have been the victims. At the same time, the environment for short-term technical trading has come to be dominated by computerized algorithmic trading systems. Technical traders must now compete with supercomputers that process millions of data items each second and make investment decisions at the individual Day Trading Options reveals new strategies that generate outstanding profits with minimal risk. You'll learn new approaches to evaluating option prices by comparing overnight, intraday, and traditional measures of volatility. At the same time, Augen introduces a new charting technique that can be used to spot the beginning and end of a short term trend—often as brief as a few minutes. You'll discover how this approach can be used to trade planned events and financial news. These new strategies and approaches will help you adapt to the new investing world and allow you to trade profitably regardless of the market's direction. |
| Duration (hours): | 1 |
| Target Audience: | Experienced Day Traders, Options Traders and anyone interested in Day Trading Options. |
| Prerequisites: | Knowledge of options and day trading is assumed |
| Learning Objectives: | Students will be able to:
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| Detailed Outline: | Effect of the current crisis on option market prices Emerging trends Automated trading Volatility distortions Implied and fair volatilities |
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