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Month: March 2014

Options Trading – Advantages And Disadvantages

What is options trading? One option is simply granting someone the right to buy or sell something in the future. In the case of futures options in the Dow, when someone buys a Dow call option they are buying the right to purchase that underlying Dow future at a specified price, known as the “strike price” at a future time , known as the “expiration date.” When an investor buys a put option, which are primarily sold in the market, a call essentially buys the market. Also, the sale of a put essentially buys the market, selling a call essentially sells the market. To receive the opportunity to buy an option on this future, investors pay a “bonus.” If the market does not reach the exercise price of the option, then that option will expire worthless on the expiration date. If the market price reaches the exercise of the option expiration date, then the investor will be assigned the future is based on the exercise price. Advantages of Options Trading Flexibility.

Options can be used in a wide variety of strategies, from conservative to high risk, and may adapt to the expectations rather than simply “the stock will go up” or “the stock will fall. Leverage. An investor can gain influence action without committing to a trade. A limited risk. Risk is limited to the option premium (except when writing options for a security that is no longer owned.) Hedging.

Options allow investors to to protect their positions against price fluctuations when it is appropriate to amend the point guard position. The disadvantages of trading options costs. The costs of trading options (including commissions and bid / ask) is significantly higher in contribution rate of the underlying stock, and these costs can drastically eat into profits. Liquidity. With the wide range of different strike prices available, some of them suffer from low liquidity making difficult negotiation. Complexity. The options are very complex and require a lot of observation and maintenance. Fall time. The time sensitive nature of options leads to the result that most options expire worthless. This only applies to traders who purchase options – those selling collect the premium, but with: Unlimited risk. Some positions in options, such as writing uncovered options, are accompanied by unlimited risk. Overall Options present a good opportunity to make plans that may benefit from the underlying market volatility and price direction. However, for most traders the disadvantages are significant and online futures trading is usually a better option.

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Consultations Public Fear

Fear not render as expected just started my first job as a tutor in computer courses and am afraid to not be able to attend properly people, to commit fallos, and generally not well hacer my work. The truth is that I’ve always been very inseguro. How could encourage me to myself? Carlos Logrono (Spain) Dear Carlos: for your letter seems that, because the initial stress of your new employment, you’ve stopped thinking in yourself and what you expect from that job, to obsess you for pure performance. It is big to exercise our work well, but it is no less true that we feel comfortable and not presionados is what ensures buena part of that exitoso performance and, above all, allows us to enjoy the same. If you lose yourself tratando unicamente satisfy the demands of the people, you’ll never be short of demands. First, because it is impossible to please everyone and, secondly, because it will always be something more that you think that you can hacer or offer.

The best way of We encourage you to yourself is feeling that you disfrutas your work, which is great for you, than each thing you do do it in the best possible way, but enjoying, as far as possible, of the tasks. Gives you permission to be wrong, to not know something from time to time. If you have sufficient humility as to say I don’t know, people will thank you and much more trust in you, generando addition, a genuine relationship with the public that acude to your courses. And gives you time, you just empezar in your new job, you have a way for delante to improve, to deploy new skills, to aprender and develop yourself. Not want to do this all at the perfeccion right now.

In summary, ilusionarte. The mejor antidote to your anxiety is to find the placer on what you are doing. As you do, you will desapareciendo your insecurity and you can concentrate on the positive.

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Boxing Gloves

Understandably, the history of boxing, or boxing fight extends far into the past. Feel free to be talking about several tens of thousands of years. Archaeology provides irrefutable evidence of the existence of special devices attached to the hands of men at different times for different purposes: to protect and less likely to soften the blows, more often to increase the lethality of fists. These fights were almost the main component of the combat training soldiers. Fist fight in a sport well studied by historians of the ancient Greeks, beginning around the XII century. BC Boxing gloves had already represented the simplest form of hand and wrist protection – soft leather strips braid hands, fingers and even preplechya. Such simple boxing gloves were called 'meylihay'. Later – starting with the VI.

BC – To replace them began to come more sophisticated gloves sfayrai, consisting of two parts: the leather ring on the joints and proper gloves that reached up to the forearm. In 688 BC fist fight was included in the ancient Olympic Games. The battle took place on the sanded floor of a square. The winner is the one who sent his opponent in the knock-out or forced to surrender. The next stage in the development of boxing gloves began in ancient Rome from the end of IV to II cent. BC.

Oe. The fact that boxing is a sport event is not caught in Romans – it seemed too cruel to them, that is only fit for bloody gladiatorial combat. Leather belts were equipped with various kinds of spikes, with metal rings, knots, or tin-coated brass. Such boxing gloves called cesta. Fights ended in serious injury or death of gladiators, boxers. In the Roman Empire in I. BC box was found outside the law, it literally and figuratively put an end to the next Ten centuries. In Russia, had long been a special culture of boxing, which is mentioned more in the Tale of Bygone Years (1068). Russian fist fights have never been any source of income for the soldiers, nor for the audience. Unwritten rules of humane existed forbidding lying to beat, hit back with a 'tripping', to strike down or head, arm than a hand. The Orthodox Church has fought tirelessly with these 'barbaric' fun, but after 1917 with Box, who came from Europe, began to fight the Bolsheviks, accusing him of all sins burzhuinskih. Meanwhile, in old England was being rapidly developed classic English boxing – the heir to the ancient Greek Fisticuffs. Boxing gloves have appeared in the XV century. Used exclusively for training. At competitions Gentlemen Prefer fight with bare fists. Boxing gloves were tightly filled with horse hair and flaked skin. In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry proposed new set of rules for boxing, one of the main points of which was a requirement to use the boxing gloves to improve the safety of boxers. Since then, gloves can be divided into two categories: training and combat gloves. To date, differ not only in combat and training, but amateur, professional, slug, coaching, gloves and lace gloves Velcro. There are two filler for the boxing gloves: gloves, a fiber and foam.

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