The Chicago School of Trading

Trading a Quiet Forex Market Likely to Breakout

Originally Published in Futures Magazine 4/1/2011

Question: How do you trade a quiet market likely to breakout?

Answer: Upside/downside ratio spreads             

Before World War I, most national currencies featured convertibility to gold. At times, this could act as a drag on the economy.  If an economy became vastly more productive and the gold convertibility feature prevented commensurate monetary growth, then economic growth would be stunted or even reversed. For all of its flaws, the gold standard did prevent runaway inflation of the sort that occurred in Germany under the Weimar Republic. That inflation ushered in the rule of Adolf… [ Read more ]

Trading Options on Inverse and Ultra ETFs

by DanKeegan

Originally Published in Futures Magazine 2/1/2011

Question: How can traders take advantage of leveraged ETFs without a huge capital commitment?

Answer: Cut out the middleman and do as the indexers do, trade options on the ETFs.

Inverse and ultra exchange traded funds (ETFs) can be handy arrows to be found in a trader’s quiver. The “ultra” funds return two or three times the daily return than a normal ETF. Inverse ETFs can achieve the same goals as a straight out short position without consuming nearly as much margin.

What is an ultra ETF? It is an… [ Read more ]

Welcome to Chicago!

November 2, 2010

All of us at CST would like to welcome all of you who are atttending the Futures Industry Association’s 26th Annual Futures and Options Expo in Chicago this week .

When the Expo began in the 1980s it was primarily about futures. Today it encompasses the entire world of alternative trading and investments and the one thing that unites them is options. Dan Keegan, CST‘s Head Options Mentor, has taught experienced equity and futures traders how to use options to augment their trading and he has taught novice traders how to use options in equities, futures,… [ Read more ]

What We Are Selling

September 2, 2010
If you have ever been to our website before, you might notice a few changes. We have also been working on our first TV commercial. I was mentioning all this to some people at an event recently when I was asked by someone unfamiliar with our program “Whaddya selling?” That’s a good question and I think I’ll try to answer it here.
The short answer is that we are currently offering an options trading course complete with our own text, companion videos, and twelve in-depth mentoring sessions with a veteran trader who acts as your personal… [ Read more ]

The Market is Up,So Why Hasn't the VIX Gone Down?

Part of it is probably the up and down nature of the market this year. Investors don’t seem to be trusting this year’s rallies. Fear has not been stamped out…..