http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=David+Rivera Finances David Rivera Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=99515&ca=Finances When traders speak of putting on calendar spreads, they normally refer to buying the further month options and selling the closer month option. While I can not argue with this, it is not best for all options. I am going to be general in this article because prices change and I don’t want to cause co... Self Help David Rivera Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14700&ca=Self+Help I want to explain a technique that is used to remember long lists. It is especially useful if you have to remember the list in a particular order. Let's say that you are going shopping and need to remember 5 items. This can be used with 50 items as well. The items are: Pasta Oranges Detergent... Finances David Rivera Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14749&ca=Finances There are many ways to trade futures option spreads. One way is to trade spreads that can profit from time decay. You can sell options which you believe will lose more time value than the options you buy. Another way is to buy and sell options based on their deltas. Some of these trades are called... Finances David Rivera Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13558&ca=Finances Wouldn't it be great if we could buy an option with five months left until expiration and sell an option with 2 months left until expiration for the same price? You couldn't lose. Well we can't. I love options spreads so much I realized something very important. We can buy a spread that has a lot of... Self Help David Rivera Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13560&ca=Self+Help A Quick Word Helps to Remember Do you have a list you have to remember quickly? Take the first letters and form an acronym. For example - you have to remember to send Fred, Lisa, Ethel and Andrew cards. Yes, their first initials form the word FLEA. Imagine itching (your head?) because you have a fle...