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“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.” — Charles Dickens My last few postings have served to introduce certain families of option trades. I find it helpful to embrace the concept of various families sharing certain and specific characteristics. In doing so it serves to help avoid the chaos of considering whether each possible option trades as its own unique individual with its own unique set of defining characteristics. Grouping these trades into families reduces the number of specific variances the trader must consider in each particular case.

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“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.” — Charles Dickens My last few postings have served to introduce certain families of option trades. I find it helpful to embrace the concept of various families sharing certain and specific characteristics. In doing so it serves to help avoid the chaos of considering whether each possible option trades as its own unique individual with its own unique set of defining characteristics. Grouping these trades into families reduces the number of specific variances the trader must consider in each particular case.

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The fixed income ETF space has been a real growth engine for the ETF marketplace. In the ETF landscape it is still growing in terms of both new issuances and asset growth in existing funds. The first fixed income ETFs weren’t issued until 2002 — but the space is on pace to eclipse the $200 billion assets under management mark sometime in 2012. On December 31 2011 the total AUM in the space was $177 billion — which included $41 billion in new asset flows. With the popularity of these funds you can bet that more and more fixed income

The fixed income ETF space has been a real growth engine for the ETF marketplace. In the ETF landscape it is still growing in terms of both new issuances and asset growth in existing funds. The first fixed income ETFs weren’t issued until 2002 — but the space is on pace to eclipse the $200 billion assets under management mark sometime in 2012. On December 31 2011 the total AUM in the space was $177 billion — which included $41 billion in new asset flows. With the popularity of these funds you can bet that more and more fixed income

The fixed income ETF space has been a real growth engine for the ETF marketplace. In the ETF landscape it is still growing in terms of both new issuances and asset growth in existing funds. The first fixed income ETFs weren’t issued until 2002 — but the space is on pace to eclipse the $200 billion assets under management mark sometime in 2012. On December 31 2011 the total AUM in the space was $177 billion — which included $41 billion in new asset flows. With the popularity of these funds you can bet that more and more fixed income

Last week’s missive began the introduction of the three major families of option trade constructions (see Learning the Various Trade Constructions Available for Options Trading). My purpose in this approach is to make the reader familiar with the concept that certain groups of trades share common characteristics. The reason for this approach is to try to render the selection of the specific trades the new option trader must consider in his quest to fit his price and time scenario to the multitude of option trades available for consideration.

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Last week’s missive began the introduction of the three major families of option trade constructions (see Learning the Various Trade Constructions Available for Options Trading). My purpose in this approach is to make the reader familiar with the concept that certain groups of trades share common characteristics. The reason for this approach is to try to render the selection of the specific trades the new option trader must consider in his quest to fit his price and time scenario to the multitude of option trades available for consideration.

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