"When the planets align this can be a good strategy, " says Marty Kearney, senior staff instructor at the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Options Institute.

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"We get all sorts here, including up to 9, 000 foreigners a year, " explained Nerone, the school's senior magister (instructor).

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"In a worst-case scenario, you could eject from a fighter jet, " says senior CAL flight instructor Chou Yu-sen, who once trained F-104 and T33 combat pilots.

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