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The Best Way To Trade The Last Hour Of Quadruple Witching Friday Using Nadex Binary Options And Nadex Spreads
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 3:23pm | 1518“Freaky Friday" is one of the most important days for any trader to be aware of due to the impact it has on the markets. What is the best way to trade this unique quarterly event? Futures carry a high risk, options have exercise issues, stocks require a lot of capital and most of these...
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Premium Collecting With Nadex Spreads: Iron Condor
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 11:13am | 1251With Nadex spreads, traders who think the underlying market might not go anywhere and just oscillate around where it is can trade what’s called an iron condor as a neutral strategy. Two previous articles in this series covered how to collect premium (credit spreads) in an upwards...
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How To Determine Intrinsic Value Of A Nadex Spread Option
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 3:33pm | 885Nadex Spreads are completely different than Nadex Binaries and determining the moneyness for them is also different. Though the definition for moneyness has the same meaning as the intrinsic value of the option, it is also effected by how close the spread is to the underlying market, or the...
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Using Nadex Spreads To Do Premium Collection Trades Everyday In Downward Markets
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 1:35pm | 1233Nobody likes paying insurance premiums, but what if traders could collect insurance premiums? A previous article examined how to profit with a premium collection trade using Nadex spreads in an uptrend or a flat market. Traders can also collect premium using spreads in a downtrend. Premium...
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Make Premium Collection Trades Everday, In Upward, Bullish Markets, Using Nadex Spreads
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 3:28pm | 1501Ever heard the saying "There's more than one way to skin a cat"? Well, there is more than one way to make profits in an uptrend or flat market with Nadex spreads, than just the market making a significant move up. In fact, there is a way to profit by more than the actual move up...
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Excellent Leverage With Nadex Spreads, Compared To Forex Spot
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 4:25pm | 1108A Nadex spread is a derivative of an underlying market with a max trading floor and ceiling level. Nadex has currency instruments and foreign currency instruments, with Forex spot markets as the underlying market. Unlike the Forex spot market, trading Nadex spreads provides far greater leverage...
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Excellent Leverage With Nadex Spreads, Compared To Stocks And ETFs
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 4:14pm | 1239Most people know what stocks are, but many do not understand what an ETF is. ETF stands for Exchange Traded Fund, and is just that: an investment fund traded on stock exchanges. It trades like a stock: in that traders own a share that can increase or decrease in value, and can trade it...
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Leverage With Nadex Spreads Compared To Futures Day Trading
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 1:52pm | 664The second part of this four-part series on comparing leverage trading Nadex spreads to trading other instruments, looks at the differences between the leverage trading Nadex spreads to the leverage obtained when trading futures. As stated in the first part of the series, Nadex spreads have the...
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Excellent Leverage With Nadex Spreads, Compared To Future Options
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 3:50pm | 710To be successful a trader always wants to reduce risk, but also increase leverage. Compared to many instruments out there, Nadex spreads allow for high leverage, thereby giving traders greater opportunities. Nadex spreads are a derivative contract of an underlying market -- which has a limited...
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Why Trade Nadex Spreads, Versus Future Options?
Friday, May 30, 2014 - 3:35pm | 1323How does a longer expiration lead to more risk and less profit? The yellow highlighted portions on the chart below demonstrate the cost difference for an ES call option. It compares an example, that is ready to expire that day (on a Friday) at $1.40, to the cost of one that is a week out at $10...
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Misconceptions About Trading Nadex Spreads On Futures
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 3:33pm | 867Many traders new to Nadex often make the false assumption, that trading an option on a future and trading a future itself work and move the same way. There are similarities, but there are also differences. As the saying goes, apples need to be compared to apples, not apples to oranges....
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How To Never Get Stopped Out Of a Trade Using Nadex Spreads
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 3:48pm | 2139Have you ever experienced market whipsaw? Say that, while looking at this GBP/USD chart, you see a trend line -- the market’s trending down, you think the market’s going to bounce right off that trend line and keep trending down. You go for a target down where you saw a lot of volume, and you...
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How To Get Excellent Leverage With Capped Risk, Using Nadex Spreads
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 3:42pm | 1118There are three basic things necessary for making money in trading: low risk, increased leverage and more time for the market to move favorably. Nadex spreads provide all three. With reduced risk, investors don’t lose as much money. When reduced risk is combined with an increase in leverage,...
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Ticks And Pips And Cents, Oh My! Nadex Makes It Easy To Trade Forex And Futures
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 11:35am | 1028Most traders, investors and even the uninitiated are aware that US stocks moves in pennies: 100.01, 100.02, 100.03. And every penny move is worth just that -- one penny. However, trading can seem very daunting when you starting hearing words like ticks and pips. To get you started, it’s...
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How Spread Strikes And Widths Are Set And Nadex Spread Basics
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 4:21pm | 1196Nadex spreads offer unique trading opportunities. A spread is a simple derivative of an underlying market, with a designated floor and ceiling level and an expiration time. Traders can enter any time after the spread starts and can exit before it expires. Derivative means the price is derived...