She is also the editor of the Turnaround Trader and Value Investor services.

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The ETF Trader provides Value Levels at which to buy on weakness and Risky Levels at which to sell on strength for twelve index ETFs, twelve sector ETFs, two emerging markets ETFs, one fixed-income ETF, and three commodities ETFs.

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The retail trader benefits from a put that gains in value as the market falls, while the market maker loses.

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Helping the trader out hugely here is a doubling in the critical value of options implied volatility.

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Normally a commodity trader need only put up a small fraction of the value of the commodity they are trading, meaning they can load up on plenty.

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The former Prudential derivatives trader rejoined First Marblehead in September 2008 after the stock had lost most of its value because of the collapsing value of its loan portfolio.

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Barclays was a leading trader of these sorts of derivatives, and even relatively small moves in the final value of LIBOR could have resulted in daily profits or losses worth millions of dollars.

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Furthermore, I assumed the trader held the options for the entire two weeks, and closed them out at intrinsic value when they expired.

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