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• CBOT Interest Rate Swap Futures: Product Update
  08.02.2007
• CBOT Interest Rate Swap Futures: Reference Guide
  05.17.2007
• Liability Driven Investing: Challenges and Opportunities
  05.10.2007
• Binary Options Reference Guide
  03.29.2007
• Binary Options Specs
  02.15.2007
• DJUSRE Reference Guide
  02.08.2007
• Volume at Price Indicators for Uncharted Territories
  by Lisa Erdmeier. With the DJIA setting all time record highs, the "buy low" side of the equation seems a bit askew. 10.27.2006
• A Simple Treasury Short Hedge
  Chicago Board of Trade Treasury futures can help you protect the value of an asset when you fear yields may rise and erode asset values. 09.25.2006
• A Simple Treasury Long Hedge
  Chicago Board of Trade Treasury futures can help you protect your purchasing power when you fear yields may drop and drive up the cost of acquiring assets. 09.25.2006
• Simple Treasury Duration Adjustment
  The specter of rising interest rates can give managers of fixed-income portfolios nightmares. The soothing balm in this case is not a glass of warm milk but a lower duration target. 09.25.2006
• Binary -FF Spread
  09.21.2006
• Take Advantage of CBOT's $25 Dow Contract
  Professional trader John Carter discusses the added flexibility in CBOT's Dow Complex with the addition of the $25 Dow futures, and outlines trading plays utilizing it. 08.17.2006
• Boberski of Bear Stearns analyzes CBOT Binary Options
  08.09.2006
• CBOT Interest Rate Swap Futures: Wholesale Transactions (Block Trading)
  07.31.2006
• Reading Order Flow
  by Jack Broz, www.themarlinletter.com 07.24.2006
• CBOT Interest Rate Swap Futures: Synthetic Swap Spreads
  05.01.2006
• CBOT Interest Rate Swap Futures: Enhanced Solutions for Risk Management
  04.25.2006
• CBOT Interest Rate Swap Futures: Pricing and Risk Modeling Basics
  04.24.2006
• The CBOT TUT Spread
  The spread between 10-year and two-year T-note contracts offers a vehicle for taking advantage of interest rate shifts. 09.21.2005
• Establishing A Selling Price Range For Corn & Soybean Producers
  Discusses how options can be used to reduce risk. 05.03.2004
• Keep it Simple
  02.11.2004
• Making Money In Volatile Markets
  02.11.2004
• Options Strategies for Prudent Trading
  02.11.2004
• A Relative Value Volatility Trade in Corn and Soybeans
  Options on CBOT agricultural futures greatly expand the opportunities available to commodity fund managers and proprietary traders. 01.29.2004
• Managing Hog Feed Costs
  This paper focuses on two common feed strategies using Corn futures and options: Long Futures Hedge and Long Call Hedge. The same strategies could be used to manage soybean meal costs. 11.12.2003
• Trade by the Book – A Guide to Reading Order Flow
  by Jack Broz. Studying the order book, a trader can learn nuances and patterns in the way market participants place orders, pull orders, etc. making him better able to time his entries and exits. 11.10.2003
• Opening Gap & CBOT mini-sized Dow: First & Best Trade of the Day
  by John Carter. This articles discusses how to understand and take advantage of gaps using the CBOT mini-sized Dow contract. 09.03.2003
• Bullish Opportunities in the CBOT mini-sized Dow
  by William Kaiser. A followup to his previous trading strategy titled "Shades of the 60 07.14.2003
• Trading the CBOT mini-sized Dow Using Fibonacci Price Clusters
  In this strategy, Carolyn Boroden discusses "clustering" price relationships to define high probability, relatively low risk trading setups. 06.30.2003
• Exchange for Risk Concept Paper
  The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) now allows Exchange for Risk (EFR) transactions in all CBOT agricultural futures contracts including Corn, Soybeans, Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Wheat, Rice, and Oats futures 06.20.2003
• Yield Curve Shift Makes Trading Opportunities
  Using CBOT Treasury futures, you can design a variety of trades that can serve both risk management and yield enhancement purposes. 05.28.2003
• Fed Funds Options Reference Guide
  Options on CBOT Fed Funds futures are an important risk management tool for anyone who wants to hedge against, or speculate on, changes in short-term interest rates brought about by changes in Federal Reserve monetary policy. 05.27.2003
• Anticipating Fed Action
  Options on CBOT fed funds futures are quite possibly the best means available to express market opinions about what the Fed might or might not do at upcoming meetings. 05.27.2003
• Keep It Simple
  by Sam Seiden. How we produce consistent returns in trading the mini-sized Dow is always the same and is the focus of this piece. 05.06.2003
• Reduce Trading Risk Using CBOT mini-sized Dow Futures
  by James Brandolino. It does not necessarily matter what price forecasting method and trading style a trader utilizes as long as risk and money management rules are defined, embedded and followed in his or her trading plan. 04.21.2003
• Bear Sterns: Bullet Agency Relative Value
  This paper begins with an introduction to options based asset-liability modeling that was originally intended as an alternative to duration based approaches. 04.04.2003
• Shades of the 60's...Again?
  by William Kaiser. Extremely low consumer confidence coupled with the reality of good economic numbers is very bullish for two reasons: market bottoms are usually made when the public is the most bearish and bullish fundamentals should fuel the market. 03.10.2003
• A Short Memory Is A Trader's Best Friend
  by Jon Najarian. This article discusses something that everyone from the novice to the seasoned veteran has to deal with – forcing yourself to forget what price you paid for your trade. 02.24.2003
• Technical Price Levels and Trading Dow Futures
  by Jack Broz. Technicals should be a key part of Dow futures trading strategies. Levels will give you places where there is a technical reason for a profitable trade. 02.07.2003
• Time and Price Predictions - Cycles with Pivot Point Analysis
  Market analysis, in the simplest term, is the study to determine price direction. Whether that movement is up, down or sideways. Timing the price direction has been the trick for most analysts. 12.19.2002
• The New Kid on the Block - Stock Futures and Options Article
  07.12.2002
• The Dow’s Winning “Split” Personality - Goldman Sachs Article
  03.06.2002
• Creating Spreads for Asset Allocation
  As market indications drive investors to move from stocks to bonds or bonds to stocks, use spreads between CBOT DJIA and Treasury Bond futures ona small cap index 08.23.2000
• Protecting Your Stock Investments
  Example of selling short futures to protect stock portfolio 08.23.2000
• Using CBOT DJIA Puts to Protect Profits from a Bull Market
  How to use put options to achieve low-cost portfolio protection in a fluctuating market environment 08.23.2000
• Using CBOT DJIA Options to Capture Market Movements
  How to use the flexibility that options provide can help you take advantage of the profits from market cycles quickly & easily 08.23.2000
• Another Look at Dow Theories
  Reviews empirical evidence for the Dow Theory & Dow-10 strategy (also known as Dogs of the Dow strategy) 08.23.2000
• Using Option Spreads in High or Low Volatility Markets
  Scenarios for use of long and short-straddle strategies 08.23.2000
• Enhancing Portfolio Yields
  Selling calls on CBOT DJIA futures options to enhance return on your portfolio 08.23.2000
• Altering the Mix of Large Cap and Small Cap Stocks
  Take advantage of seasonal return patterns of different stock classes by trading spreads between CBOT DJIA futures & futures on small cap index. 08.23.2000
• Arbing Futures and DIAMONDS
  08.23.2000
• Buying and Selling the Market with Long and Short Futures
  08.23.2000

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