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Hi – my name is Anna Coulling and I am a full time currency, and commodities trader. I have been involved in both trading and investing for over fifteen years and have traded many different financial instruments, from options and futures to stocks and commodities. I write and publish articles ( mostly for free ) for UK and international publications on a wide variety of financial issues, and in particular I enjoy helping others learn how to invest and trade.
Since starting my first web site some years ago, which provides an introduction to trading and investing, I have since developed many other sites which cover a wide variety of markets. Some are simply informational sites, and others like this one provide a daily update on the market with commentary and analysis, along with videos which provide my views, both fundamental and technical, on the likely direction of future prices. All my sites have one thing in common – all the information is provided free of charge. All of these are listed in the My Sites link on the left hand side of the home page.
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Hello Ann
am so thankful for your very resourceful education about options actually they are well explained with utmost breakdown for even a toddler could understand and they are really nice.
GOOD GIRL.., YOU KNOW IT.
However as i was going through some of your articles on the page of CURRENCY OPTION STRATEGY
i came across one of my most preferred trading strategy called STRADDLE,although am just starting in the currency option,in your explanation about the straddle strategy ,you mentioned something like ,buy put and call, at the money……..,now Anna this all what i wanted to hear.
does this means choosing the spot price as the strike price for my put and call?
i would be very glad to hear from you about that question and thanks so much
Hi Anna,
Please explain why you feel this way, taken from your explaination on currency options:
“…I am not advocating that you should abandon the fx spot market and only trade options – far from it – they are an excellent instrument which should be used in conjunction with the spot market which is what we will look at next – hedging our positions using an option…”
As an equity options trader, I never buy a stock..why would I do that when for less money I can own the stock synthetically and less risk.
Their is no gain I could realize owning the stock that can’t be realized owning the CALL on that stock.
As I understand the margin on currencies is 2%…is it the same on currency options?
I don’t have access to pricing to determine if their is a way to reduce or eliminate the cost of a synthetic position in currencies or to know if their are LEAPS.
Structurally in currencies can I buy a sell put and buy a call at PAR(?) and then sell a CALL for a date in the future at a higher spot price and sell PUT for a date in the future at a lower spot price bringing in premium on both sides..in addition in case the currency in-the-money fell as was assigned to me…I would need to own a PUT to get out of it.
You know pairs….I don’t….what pairs would this work given the premiums?
Thanks.