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1/2/2008 -  - Through these dramatic declines, www.MarketVolume.com investors nonetheless continued to enjoy healthy returns. The S&P 500 in mid-summer, as an example, dropped almost 100 points. During that same period, 20 trading sessions, www.MarketVolume.com investors enjoyed a return on the S&P of 13.6%

05/30/2007 -  - MarketVolume.com, the single source of real time advance-and-decline trade volume analysis for all U.S. equity markets, announced today the introduction of VIX, the S&P 500 volatility index, as well as the VXN for the Nasdaq 100 and the VXO for the S&P 100....

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09/25/2007 -  - The time decay benefits to the side of the options seller and the closer the time to expiration, the more the sold call looses value, thereby increasing the likelihood of profit - even in a neutral market.

09/26/2007 -  - In some cases a trader who may have access to an uncovered options trading system...

11/07/2007 -  - On December 1, 2004, QQQ was moved to the NASDAQ Stock Market Exchange and was assigned a new ticket: QQQQ.

12/21/2007 -  - The main reason why options were not a popular trading vehicle was because of the low options liquidity...

12/21/2007 -  - for each individual investor the best trading strategy would be unique and it completely depends on the selected market (equates, options, currencies...), personal trading style and the risk an investor is ready to take.

01/02/2008 -  - By knowing the general direction of the market, which could be received only from the indexes analysis, a trader may substantially improve the trading even if this trader does not trade indexes but stocks only.

01/17/2008 -  - Simple trading system in the meaning that it is simple to use in order to make a trading decision, but it does not imply that this system would not require investing a lot of time into learning and developing.

02/07/2008 -  - The VIX Futures and VIX Options were each named as most Innovative Index Products in 2004-2006 years.

02/07/2008 -  - traders may sell calls (covered or uncovered) short when they believe an underlying security price will go down and sell short puts (uncovered options only) when they expect the underlying security price will go up.

02/07/2008 -  - The Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) is a basket of 100 of the largest companies listed and traded on the Nasdaq National Market (which is part of the Nasdaq Stock Market). ...

03/04/2008 -  - The question is how can a trader choose the right one from such vast number of the services available...

03/04/2008 -  - If you compare 2 completely similar trading systems with the only difference being that system #1 sells options while system #2 buys options, you will see that the probability of making profitable trades is higher for system #2 (uncovered options trading)...

04/02/2008 -  - SBV Oscillator can be traded with this simple trading system. 4 Simple rules are used by this system. It goes without saying that you should adjust any trading approach (including this particular system) so that it suits your personal trading style...

04/02/2008 -  - in order to increase profits, some traders may prefer to use strategy #1 after each winning trade, and in order to recover faster from a lost trade the #2 strategy might be used after each lost trade until the portfolio is restored."


The S&P 500 index is one of the most tracked indexes in the world and it consists of 500 Large-Cap publicly traded corporations. Majority of these companies are American largest public companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Na...


Over the last couple of years the Rydex funds have become very popular among investors. The main advantage of these funds is that they allow investors to use IRA and 401k accounts to invest in bear market by using the inverse funds as well as the lev...


The VAO (Volume Accumulation Oscillator) was developed by Mark Chaikin and in some cases this technical indicator is called the Chaikin Oscillator. In technical analysis the VAO oscillator is used to show the cumulative volume that is adjusted by the...


VO (Volume Oscillator) is a basic volume based technical indicator. Such indicators as MVO (MarketVolume Oscillator) and PVO (Percentage Volume Oscillator) are based on the VO and it is essential to understand the physics behind the Volume Oscillator...


New Highs and New Lows indicators show the number of stocks hitting new 52-week highs or lows respectively. As a rule these indicators are applied to the basket of stocks: indexes and exchanges. The most common application of this technical study is ...