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The Australian Stock market is at 5 year highs – and I am soul searching!

 For more than a year now, we have been talking up the notion of getting your money working in the Australian and US stock markets, using our number one cash-flow strategy. In this time , our trading floor has provided countless trade examples, released hundreds of investment reports, made multiple trade recommendations and provided over 120 hours of interactive training for our clients. We’ve also been able to help every day Australians, the action takers to, get up and running successfully in the market. However, even with as much as we’ve done, we haven’t done enough because some readers of this report have yet to get started. Some have been too busy, others not confident about the market and others, have elected to stay in the “safety” of cash . Market Steam Ahead To New Highs As such, I have done some soul searching over the past few days, and I remembered a conversation I had with a complete stranger just over a week ago… I was sitting next to a very interesti

Australian Dollar rises … did you hedge your International exposure?

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  On the 2 nd October, we recommended to traders who trade US positions, to adopt a Currency Hedge as the Risk of a rising Australian dollar had increased. For traders who participate in US trades, if the Australian dollar rises, the value of the US dollar based positions will decrease. At close of Thursday in the US, the Aussie Dollar was at $0.9633 – a gain of 2.02% in only 2 weeks. What this means, is that if you had made 2% on your portfolio in your US trades, this would be negated by the currency change. Our analysts are evaluating on a daily basis whether or not the need to hedge against a currency change is required. There’s no point giving back what we make in the markets, when we can easily hedge against a rise in the dollar. It’s the reason why it is so important that when you receive the alert, you contact the broker and place the position. If you trade in US positions, contact the brokers  on 1300 304 500 today to discuss placement of a Currency Hedge. To su

Facebook Trade Recommendation – Trade of the Week

 We entered an Iron Condor position on FaceBook (NASDAQ:FB) on the 23rd October 2013. This strategy is a non-directional outlook for the underlying share price. Using both Call and Put options, we sell the strategy to receive premium, and benefit from Time Decay and declining Implied Volatility. In fact, the strategy has very little to do with directional outlook. Facebook Trade Recommendation (NASDAQ:FB)Entry Video Click Here To Receive Free Trade Recommendations The position we entered was to sell the Nov 62.50/65.00 Call spread, and to sell the Nov 45.00/43.00 Put spread. We received an average of $0.80 per share, with a maximum risk of $1.70 per share. Earnings for FB was scheduled for the 30th October. Following this, Implied Volatility declined sharply, working in favour of our position. With expiration of the November option contracts on the 15th November, and as the value of the position declined to a mere $0.10 per share with more than a week and a half before