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1. Sheridan Options Mentoring Blog Reader Survey

Thanks for taking the time to answer our survey. We'll be using this survey to decide what to write about in our blog in 2011. We want to encourage you to communicate with comments in our posts and send us suggestions for things you'd like to see!

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Sheridan Options Mentoring

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* 1. How long have you been trading options using real money?(Mark one)

I have never traded options

A few months

More than six months

More than one year

Several years

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* 2. The success of my option trading could best be described as (Mark one):

Consistently profitable

Consistently unprofitable

Feast or famine, ups and downs with no consistent pattern

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* 3. What types of option strategies have you traded? (Mark all that apply):

Long calls or puts

Naked short calls or puts

Covered Calls

Vertical spreads

Calendar spreads (aka horizontal spreads)

Butterfly spreads

Iron Condors

Other (please specify)

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* 4. What types of option strategies do you feel that you thoroughly understand?(Mark all that apply):

Long calls or puts

Naked short calls or puts

Covered Calls

Vertical spreads

Calendar spreads (aka horizontal spreads)

Butterfly spreads

Iron Condors

Other (please specify)

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* 5. As I look to option trading in the New Year, I would most like to (Mark all that apply):

Improve my trading consistency

Learn new strategies

Understand the source of risk in various trades

Become familiar with the basics of option trading

Other (please specify)

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* 6. With regard to the use of technical analysis as a guide for my trade selection (Mark one):

Very useful

A guide but not a major factor in trade selection

Not very helpful, I prefer to deal with trades as required by market action

What is technical analysis?

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* 7. As I consider option trades, I have difficulty (Mark all that apply) :

Understanding impact of implied volatility

Designing trades to fit current market conditions

Finding appropriate underlying securities to trade

Understanding impact of the passage of time on the risk of trade

Choosing appropriate time frames for trades

Understanding the difference between different trade structures

Getting beyond the often quoted "wisdom" that 90% of option traders lose money

Other (please specify)

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* 8. When studying various educational materials for option trading (Mark all that apply):

I find the terminology confusing and often redundant

I am confused by the large number of potential strategies

The reason to use one strategy as opposed to another is clear as mud

Risk parameters are difficult to understand

I find the various strategies needlessly complex

Other (please specify)

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* 1. How long have you been trading options using real money?(Mark one)

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* 2. The success of my option trading could best be described as (Mark one):

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* 3. What types of option strategies have you traded? (Mark all that apply):

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* 4. What types of option strategies do you feel that you thoroughly understand?(Mark all that apply):

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* 5. As I look to option trading in the New Year, I would most like to (Mark all that apply):

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* 6. With regard to the use of technical analysis as a guide for my trade selection (Mark one):

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* 7. As I consider option trades, I have difficulty (Mark all that apply) :

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* 8. When studying various educational materials for option trading (Mark all that apply):

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* 9. I would like to see the following topic(s) covered in the blog this year (please be as specific as possible):