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Breakouts

The Advantages of Automated Trading and How it Fits into Your Trade Plan

Skill Level:
Beginner
Derek Siek, Wizetrade

Automated trading is not just limited to large institutions, it's now a reality for the retail investor. Advances in rules based trading programs are making it easier for the individual investor to quickly recognize and take advantage of timely movements in the markets. Come find out how auto-mated trading can compliment your manual trading especially in today’s volatile markets.

Using Volatility Derivatives In Your Option Trading

Skill Level:
Beginner
Larry McMillan, Option Strategist

With the introduction of volatility futures in 2004, a whole new concept of trading strategies was made possible. In this talk, we'll start with the elementary definitions of these new products (futures and options on $VIX). Then, we'll show how $VIX and these derivatives can often be used to predict stock market moves (including a trading system with a solid track record). Finally, we'll look at some trading strategies involving these products, including "calendar" spreads (which are different from traditional stock or index option calendars), skew-based spreads, and others.

Options 201

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Joe Cusick, optionsXpress

"Spread" is a loosely used term that can describe any multi-part strategy. In this breakout, we will introduce you to the Bull Call Spread, Bear Call Spread and Diagonal Spreads. This event aims to provide you a better understanding of spreads and how they can be an alternative to trading options speculatively.

Meet the Greeks

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Joe Cusick, optionsXpress

When traders talk about "the Greeks," they are referring to the different ways risk can be measured as it relates to a particular option or position. If you always wondered how these different Greek letters (e.g., delta, gamma, vega) help enable traders to manage risk, then this webinar is a must see.

Strike Price Selection

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Mike Tosaw, optionsXpress

Have you ever bought an option where the price of the stock goes your way and you still lose money? Do you ever wonder how to determine a strike price for a specific strategy and time frame? When is it better to do a spread instead of a single leg option? Not only will we go over some ways to select a potential strike price, we will also cover how to use optionsXpress for determining what if for various option strategies.

Understanding Synthetics

Skill Level:
Beginner
Bill Ryan, AMEX

Understanding Synthetics will help the option user understand how multiple positions can be combined to replicate a single position. This presentation will show the option user how these additional tools can help them achieve their goals while maintaining their outlook and risk / reward parameters.

Single Stock Futures: An Alternative To Trading Equities On Margin

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Henry Robinson-Duff, OneChicago

Learn to use Single Stock Futures (SSF) and how they can improve your money management by lowering your financing cost when compared to trading long stock on margin. See how SSF you can improve your short stock rebate. Get access to the same type of borrowing rates that large Hedge Funds get from their prime brokers.

Indicators to Help Find the Best Trends in Stocks & Options

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Price Headley, BigTrends

Join Price Headley as he shares his unique indicators and how to manage the trade as the trend evolves.

Using Volatility to Choose Strike Prices

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Marty Kearney, CBOE

Initiating Credit Spreads, Condors, etc. Maybe understanding a little more about volatility might point you to the "right" strike price.

Option Volatility: What it is and How to take Advantage of it

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Marty Kearney, CBOE

U.S. stock market volatility has been very high and very low - and that was just last week! Are there some guidelines you should be following when you are evaluating a position in stock, Index or ETF options? What strategies are investors using in high and low volatility environments?

Strategies for Futures, Stocks and Options

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Tom Busby, DTI

Traders tend to put themselves in one of three categories: day trader, swing trader, or long-term investor. The truth is, almost all trades start as day trades and develop into swing or long-term positions depending on the market and the returns. In this educational session, 25-year veteran trader Tom Busby will share his method for using specific times of day to trade stocks, futures and options. Bring your pen and paper - this one is a MUST attend for the active trader or investor.

When Long is Wrong: Strategies for Trading in a Bear Market

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Tom Busby, DTI

Picture this: you're on a football team that only has a great offense and literally no defense...what is the likelihood of your team winning? Probably not that great. The stock market is the same way. To be a more successful trader, you often need to be able to play the long and the short side. In this session Tom Busby will cover some of his personal strategies in a bear market. Busby will cover the futures market, including the stock indexes and commodities such as corn, gold and oil.

Sophisticated Trading Strategies: Using Calendar Spreads for the USD/YEN (YUK)

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Alex Jacobson, ISE

Learn to trade calendar options spreads on the US dollar/ yen (YUK). In this session, Alex Jacobson, a top options industry educator, author, and Education Officer at the ISE, will be exploring the advantages and disadvantages of using calendar spreads strategies to trade FX Options. What are the implications of changes to option pricing of the YUK value and the varying implied volatilities? Learn to trade your views on the strength or weakness of the U.S. dollar. FX Options provide you with exposure to rate movements in the global foreign currency market and can be easily traded through all options-enabled brokerage accounts. These exchange listed securities are cash-settled in U.S. dollars and have a European style exercise.

Directional Strategies for the USD/CAD (CDD) - Vertical Spreads

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Alex Jacobson, ISE

Join Alex Jacobson, a top options industry educator, author and Education Officer at the ISE, as he discusses how to exploit opportunities for the US dollar versus the Canadian dollar using directional trading strategies. Learn to implement vertical spreads using current FX Options pricing. Spreads can be used with various market forecasts. Determine the most appropriate spreading strategy based on your own goals and your own risk tolerances. Learn to trade your views on the strength or weakness of the U.S. dollar. FX Options provide you with exposure to rate movements in the global foreign currency market and can be easily traded through all options-enabled brokerage accounts. These exchange listed securities are cash-settled in U.S. dollars and have a European style exercise.

Options: Speculation or Protection? - Part 1

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Larry McMillan, Option Strategist

Options are a diverse instrument. They can be used as a speculative vehicle, or they can be used to help protect a portfolio of stocks (and there are many uses in between). In this talk, we'll look at one technique in each category. For speculation, it's using option trading volume and implied volatility to help predict short-term moves in stocks. For protection, it's the "collar" - a strategy that can often be employed with stock, index, or the newest product volatility options.

Options: Speculation or Protection? - Part 2

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Larry McMillan, Option Strategist

In case you missed part 1, we'll briefly review the concepts from Part 1, and then we'll look at the current closing price data from Friday, October 10th to implement the concepts. We'll select a speculative trade and show how and why we chose it. Then we'll select a couple of protective collar strategies, again showing the reasoning behind the selection process.

How to Plan for New Potential Stock & Options Trading Opportunities in the Current Market

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Price Headley, BigTrends

Price Headley will build on the lessons from his earlier session to help show you how to choose from over 3100 optionable stocks via scans and filters. This allows you to focus on fewer select opportunities that have greater potential.

Trade Ideas for Option Traders: Set-ups Every Trader Should Know

Skill Level:
Intermediate
David Aferiat, Trade-Ideas

See a real-time scanning tool that helps to improve option trading. Trade-Ideas knows why you trade certain options and stocks. It's not the underlying company - it's the pattern you like that matters. Here's a tool that's like having several eyes on the market, bringing to your attention the pattern you're looking for in any optionable stock. Learn about how Trade-Ideas PRO seeks potential opportunities in the market, and attempts to capture the options and stocks that best meet your strategy.

How to Search for Option Trades: Backtesting with The OddsMaker

Skill Level:
Intermediate
Jamie Hodge, Trade-Ideas

Backtesting applications can furnish years of historical data on the performance of indicators for specific stocks. The tools are designed to help produce stock specific results across any time frame. Flip this equation. The OddsMaker produces the entire universe of stocks that attempt to match a custom "event" you develop and sums the trading results over the most recent market activity. This is event-based backtesting - trading without this cumulative information is too risky.

Options 401 - Leveraging the Condor

Skill Level:
Advanced
Mike Tosaw, optionsXpress

Learn how selling naked strangles through E-mini options may help you avoid the costs of condor hedge legs. Advantages and disadvantages explained. We'll start with a brief overview of an OTM iron condor and short strangles on the S&P futures and cash indices. After some group study, we'll talk about the risks and rewards of each of these strategies and try to determine which works best for each situation.

A Seasoned Trader's Guide to Futures Trading

Skill Level:
Advanced
Dan Gramza, CME

In this session, trader and educator Dan Gramza walks you through the critical trading parameters you may need to know when setting up a futures trade, whether it's your first or your 100th trade. Learn how to apply modern risk-management and execution techniques used by many veteran traders to help optimize their trading returns. Gain insight on how to potentially recognize market conditions, where/when to place risk-management stops, how to calculate a trade's profit and loss, and ways to help identify when a trade has become productive or started to fail.

Taking Advantage of Opportunities Presented in Volatile Markets

Skill Level:
Advanced
Dan Gramza, CME

There are critical and often overlooked features of the futures and options on futures markets that may provide the individual trader with the ability to participate in volatile markets. Recent price swings may provide multiple opportunities in a day, but may require a more conservative approach. Strategies that utilize combinations of options and futures may be designed to match the characteristics of the market. Leveraging over 20+ years of experience, Dan will explore how to apply these strategies from the perspectives of a day trader, swing trader and position trader in a way that aims to limit risk while attempting to increase probability of success.

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1:15 - 2:30pm
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10:30 - 11:45am

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