Derivatives & Trading

Magazine articles on active trading strategies, hedge funds, futures, options, and other derivatives.

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Registered Rep. May 27, 2004 Will Leitch	Anything but Going Long the S&P After suffering through a brutal bear market, investors have been reintroduced to the concept that stocks can go down as well as up. As a result, investment managers have been eager to capitalize on that and to fill a market need: the need to hedge.
Financial Advisor May 2004 Gene Swanzey	Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Funds' Dirty Little Secrets Discover more ways hedge funds and mutual funds inflate their profits at the expense of investors.
Financial Advisor April 2004 Pauline P. Lam	What You Should Know About Commodity Indexes Direct commodity investment has a place in every investment portfolio.
Bank Technology News April 2004 John Adams	Lending A Hand... To Trading Without One BofA Joins CSFB and Goldman In "Low-Touch" Trading Space Race -- one of the newest frontiers in trading, where thousands of shares of stocks, bonds and other instruments move electronically and a century of Wall Street tradition fades by the day.
Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Jessica Pallay	Creditex Sets Standard in FpML Creditex clients can now get their credit-default-swap broker confirms in Financial products Markup Language.
The Motley Fool March 5, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Bullish Options Strategies Whitney Tilson discusses situations in which value investors might want to consider buying call options. I'm generally not a fan of options. In certain situations call options -- used sparingly -- can be a sensible investment. Here are four such situations.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Bearish Options Strategies Whitney Tilson explains why he purchased put options on two tech-heavy indexes. As a general rule, I do not recommend buying options. They're illiquid, the bid-ask spreads are murderous, and it's always dangerous to have time working against you. It's hard enough to be right on the direction of a stock's movement, much less being right on the timing as well. But in the case of long-term puts on the Nasdaq 100 and the Semiconductor Holdrs Trust, the risk-reward equation is simply too attractive.
Financial Advisor February 2004 Evan Simonoff	The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns.
Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza	In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth.
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