Derivatives & Trading

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

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BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 Chad Terhune	ICE's Jeffrey Sprecher: The Sultan of Swaps Sprecher has found profit remodeling the credit default swap market. His close relationship with banks has critics worried that he hasn't made it safer.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2010 Mac Greer	How Wall Street's Quants Lost Billions and Lived to Tell About It Author Scott Patterson talks about his book, The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2010 Mike Pienciak	How to Hedge for Uncertain Times The bear put spread offers the potential for an excellent return with a small capital outlay.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Will Financial Reform Slam the Derivatives Market? Will the freshly signed financial reform bill wreak havoc on the derivatives market?
BusinessWeek July 22, 2010 Harrington et al.	The Rush to Hedge Against Black Swan Events Wall Street is seeing a boom in hedge funds that offer protection from market calamities known as "long-tail risks."
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Stop Demonizing Derivatives Derivatives didn't kill Wall Street; financial institutions did.
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Katherine Burton	How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Short the Euro Meet Andrew Law and his fraternity of global currency traders. Are they shameless speculators, an essential oil in the gears of capitalism - or both?
The Motley Fool July 14, 2010 Tom Lydon	Leveraged ETFs: Useful, but Be Careful Make sure you know what you're doing.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Even These Stocks Can Pay You Back These stocks don't pay dividends, but you can still get income from them; by using a strategy involving options, you can create regular income from your share holdings.
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Paul Wachter	A League of Their Own A new London-based hedge fund is making history by betting on sports.
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