Sunday, February 24, 2008

Bond chart at Barron's

Article on the bond market over at Barron's (link). The headline is "Bad News for Bonds." Actually, the short term looks like a rally is due. Interesting.

Also in this week's Barron's is a cautionary article about options training (link). There are a good many folks offering expensive training for trading options. Unfortunately, in most cases, those that sign up for the classes lose their shirts. Options can be used conservatively for hedging. They can also be used for speculating in a high risk fashion. Sadly, many newbies are taught to take on high risk positions. A tiny fraction will make good returns and those folks are used to recruit the next class

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