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Education
Education is the linchpin to successful options trading. ISE is committed to providing investors with quality education since its inception in 2000. ISE hosts live seminars and webinars on a wide range of topics, including trading strategies for any market condition for FX, index and equity options.Questions? ASK THE EXPERT
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| Rick Swope on "Identifying Trading Opportunities Using FX Options" |
| Where’s the dollar headed? What’s the next currency move? Join Rick Swope, an industry veteran specializing in technical analysis and risk management, as he discusses strategies for trading the currency markets using FX Options. Rick will walk you through chart set ups, interpretation of technical indicators, and volume and pattern analysis. An emphasis will be placed on using technical analysis to determine proper entry, exit and automated exit strategies. Using his one percent rule as a guideline, Rick will help you understand how to limit your losses by trading the right position size and when to exit the trade. Learn how to pick the best strategies that fit your personality and risk tolerance. | |
08/03/10 |
4:30 PM |
| John Person on "Candlestick & Pivot Point Strategies for FX Options" |
| What’s a winning trading strategy? How can you position yourself to be on the right side of the market? Join John Person, a professional trader and author of several popular trading books, as he shares his unique methodology for trading the currency markets using technical indicators. Learn to make trades not based on feelings, but a mathematical model. John also discusses trading strategies investors should employ to project major turning points in the markets. Learn the most effective candlestick top, bottom and continuous formations. John will also share his proprietary Pivot Point trading method. John will also teach you how to incorporate multiple time frames to calculate critical support and resistance levels. John will help explain how to predict highs and lows of market price moves using these trading techniques. | |
08/10/10 |
4:30 PM |
| Eric Novik on "Trading FX Options in Volatile Markets" |
| What do historical and implied volatilities in the currency markets tell us about U.S. dollar vs. the Euro? What kind of strategies can investors employ in volatile markets? Join Eric Novik, the founder of New York Options Traders, as he discusses different FX Options strategies investors can take advantage of while trading the currency markets. Eric will also discuss how implied volatility can be used to make trading decisions. In addition, he will cover such broad topic as premium selling programs and the importance of estimating the relationship between changes in Implied Volatility and the price of the currency pair. | |
08/17/10 |
4:30 PM |
| Brian Overby on "Improve Your FX Trading Using Options Greeks" |
| Not sure which way the markets are headed? What tools can help predict price movements? Learn how to take advantage of options Greeks to improve your FX trading? Join Brian Overby, Senior Options Analyst for TradeKing and noted author, as he discusses how can these risk gauges (Delta, Gamma, Theta, & Vega) can help you manage your expectations in the foreign exchange market. Brian will also provides specific examples on how you can easily translate your forecast for the U.S. dollar using FX Options. "Greeks", which help you measure how variables like interest rates or time passing will likely affect the price of your options contract. Vega measures an option's sensitivity to swings in implied volatility (IV), allowing you to see how shifts in IV will likely impact your entire portfolio. Vega, the Greek that measures how implied volatility changes impact your options position. Using charts and examples, Brian explains how to use the Greeks to be a better FX options trader. | |
08/24/10 |
4:30 PM |
| Jason Ayres - Managing Your FX Options Straddles & Strangles |
| Neutral on the greenback? Expecting major USD movement? Trade straddles and strangles! Join Jason Ayres, president and founder of Optionsource.net and a leading educator and options strategist, as he discusses how to take advantage of these positions in a high or low volatility market. Using specific examples, Jason will highlight the benefits of both long and short positions and how to employ them. Long straddles and strangles make money if the underlying price moves up or down significantly. Straddles and strangles are essentially speculations on whether the underlying currency will move a lot or not or implied volatility is going to go up or down. If you think the currency is going to move big in one direction or another and/or if you think implied volatility is going to rise, you would buy a straddle or strangle. If you think the currency is going to sit still or not move very much and/or if you think implied volatility is going to fall, you would sell short a straddle or strangle. | |
08/31/10 |
4:30 PM |
| Jack Crooks - Reserve Diversification: Strategies for the Currency Trader |
| Is the US dollar’s share of world currency reserve slipping? and the euro? What are the implications for currency investors? What type of strategies can they employ to take advantage of opportunities in the currency markets? Join Jack Crooks, founder and president of Black Swan Capital with over 20 years financial advisory experience, as he discusses ways investors can profit from currency fluctuations using FX Options. Are central banks searching for other currencies liquid enough to park their reserve holding? Are there signs of a rush to diversify out of the common currency? | |
09/08/10 |
4:30 PM |
| John Jagerson - Profiting from News Events in the Currency Markets |
| What really moves the market? Is it supply or demand or the anticipation of future supply or demand? Join John Jagerson, a renowned author and Forex trader, as well as founder and contributor to LearningMarkets.com as he explores the impact of forex news on the market and how you can take advantage of currency fluctuations using FX Options. John will provide specific strategies that investors can employ to profit from news events. John will also discuss some rules, including adjusting your price targets and stops to market volatility and your own risk tolerance is very important. Forex options can be used to reduce or eliminate these problems. Come find out why institutional and retail traders are using options to speculate, control risk and make income in the FX market. | |
09/14/10 |
4:30 PM |
| Mark Sebastian - FX Options: Advantages to Using Calendars & Diagonals |
| Neutral on the dollar? Expecting reduced volatility? Looking to generate additional income? Trade Calendar and Diagonal strategies. Join Mark Sebastian, a former market maker on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange, and Director of Risk for a private hedge fund, who will provide an in depth overview on the structure of options, as well as specific examples on how to take advantage of calendar and diagonal strategies using FX Options. Mark will provide insight on intramonth options (ATM, Put, Call, Units) and Interemonth (Front Month, Back Month, Leaps). Calendar spreads can provide a way to add value to your portfolio through your purchase of a long term option with a reduced cost basis, provided by a near term option that you sold. Diagonal spread strategies can be bearish or bullish. Diagonal trading will be profitable or at a loss based on the performance of the underlying, while keeping the months and strike prices of the spread in mind. | |
09/21/10 |
4:30 PM |
| John Person - Spotting High Probability Trading Opportunities for FX Options |
| Bullish or Bearish on the dollar? What are the best strategies for trading in these unpredictable markets? Join John Person, a professional trader and author of several popular trading books, as he shares his unique methodology for trading the currency markets using technical indicators. Learn to make trades not based on feelings, but a mathematical model. John also discusses trading strategies investors should employ to project major turning points in the markets. Learn the most effective candlestick top, bottom and continuous formations. John will also share his proprietary Pivot Point trading method. John will also teach you how to incorporate multiple time frames to calculate critical support and resistance levels. John will help explain how to predict highs and lows of market price moves using these trading techniques. Using his pivot point average methodology, John will help you determine whether the market direction is bullish, bearish or neutral and then to filter out the predictive support and resistance targets for the next trading session. | |
09/28/10 |
4:30 PM |
| Randy Frederick - Hedging Against Currency Fluctuations with FX Options |
| Do you have an opinion of where the global markets or interest rates are headed? Looking for an alternative strategy for hedging against currency fluctuations? Join Randy Frederick, Director of Trading and Derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research and a highly respected industry veteran, as he examines strategies for hedging your currency exposure using FX Options. Randy will help you understand the risk and reward tradeoff, as well as how to identify opportunities in the currency market using hedging strategies. Apply the same trading and hedging strategies you use for equity and index options. Learn to trade your views. Get exposure to some of the most widely traded currencies. ISE FX Options are cash-settled in U.S. dollars, European exercised, and can be traded from your existing brokerage account. | |
10/05/10 |
4:30 PM |
*All times reflected are ET (Eastern Time - New York Time) |
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