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Futures and Options Advisory Service
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An investors guide to trading futures and options. Technical and fundamental analysis along with trade recommendations.
Recent Posts
Post Summer Trading
FAOAS has been quite for the past three months with vacations and light trading. Here we start off September with the USD reaching the lows off the year. “Commodity Boom of 2009″ that every analyst predicted sure hasn’t followed sui...
ISM Manufacturing Index June PMI 44.8%
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector failed to grow in June for the 17th consecutive month, while the overall economy grew for the second consecutive month following seven months of decline. ...
Weekly Commodity Outlook 6/26/09
Dollar The Dollar showed weakness again this week but still no close below 80.00. (as of Friday before the close). Resistance is now 81.30. The FOMC Statement showed no change for the markets. As the Fed didn’t release any information abo...
Personal Income May 2009
Personal income increased 1.4% and Disposable Personal Income increased 1.6%. Real PCE increased 0.2% inthe month of May. Read full report here. ...
The Sell/Write/Short an Option Strategy
The Sell/Write/Short an Option. This strategy has unlimited risk and carries margin requirements just like a futures contract. Margin requirements are calculated differently at different brokerage houses. Make sure before entering in this position yo...
Weekly Claims For Unemployment Insurance
In the week ending June 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 627,000, an increase of 15,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 612,000. The 4-week moving average was 617,250, an increase of 500 from the prev...

