San-Ku – Three Gaps Up As mentioned in Japanese candlestick analys is, the num ber three plays a very relevant part of the investment doctrine. Many of the signals and formations consist of a group of three individual signals.…
How Do They Produce Profits With Candlesticks? Gaps (Ku) are called windows (Mado) in Japanese Candlestick analysis. A gap or window is one of the most misunderstood technical messages. Most investment experts advise not to buy after a gap. This…
Money Making Candlestick Formations Candlestick Line Hammer An important bottoming candle-stick line. The hammer and the hanging man are both the same line, that is a small real body (white or black) at the top of the session’s range and…
Again, although Bollinger Bands can help generate buy and sell signals, they are not designed to determine the future direction of a security. The bands were designed to augment other analysis techniques and indicators. By themselves, Bollinger Bands serve two…
QUICK REFERENCE GLOSSARY ON FUTURES AND OPTIONS FUTURES TERMINOLOGY SPOT PRICE: The price at which an asset trades in the spot market. FUTURES PRICE: The price at which the futures contract trades in the futures market. CONTRACT CYCLE: The period over which a contract trades. The index…
ADVANTAGES AND BENEFITS OF COVERED CALL STRATEGY ‘The biggest advantage of covered call strategy is it increases and improves the odds of successful trading. Another biggest share tips benefit is that it can be implemented in two of the three possible stock…
SOME STRATEGIES FOR WRITING COVERED CALLS STRATEGY 1 This is the strategy that works best in India since options of fundamentally strong stocks continue to have some time premium left till the last day. You should write at-the-money calls since…
WRITING COVERED CALLS Writing (Selling) Call Options when you already own the underlying is called writing covered call options. It is against writing Naked options which can have unlimited risk. HOW WRITING COVERED CALL OPTION WORKS As discussed earlier a…
ACCOUNTING AT THETIMi OF PAYMENT/RECEIPT OF MARGIN Payments made or received by the seller/writer for the margin should be credited/debited to the bank account and the corresponding debit/credit for the same should also be made to “Equity Index option Margin…
CLIENT LEVEL POSITION LIMITS The gross open position for each client, across all the derivative contracts on an underlying, should not exceed 1 % of the free float market capitalization (in terms of number of shares) or 5% of the open interest in all derivative contracts in the same underlying stock (in terms…