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Rick Pendergraft has spent over 20 years studying, trading and writing about the investment markets.

Rick specializes in derivatives investing, technical and sentiment analysis. After making his first options trade at a very young age, he was hooked on the leverage offered in the derivatives markets.

Rick has spent the last 10 years working for two of the largest financial publishers in the world, Schaeffer’s Investment Research and Investor’s Daily Edge.

Throughout the years, Rick has studied thousands of trades and developed an automated scan based on characteristics of past fast moving stocks to produce a daily list of bullish and bearish stocks. These scans are at the heart of the Cabot Options Trader service.

Rick has offered his outlook for the markets in numerous appearances on financial news organizations including Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, MSN Money, Dow Jones MarketWatch and TopStockAnalysts.com.

Cabot Options Trader is designed for investors who want to make quick profits while leveraging their investments.

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It's not about buying "protection" for your existing equity holdings, and it's not about adding leverage to stocks that Cabot is already bullish on... though I have to admit that calls on IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) look tempting today.

No, Cabot Options Trader will recommend trading on both the upside and the downside, respecting that the market moves in cycles, and that when the rubber band has been stretched too far in one direction, it's natural--and actually predictable!--that it will go the other way for a while.

It's about trading over the short-term; the average holding period is 15 trading days.

It's about jumping on new opportunities when they present themselves.

And it's about taking profits quickly and sitting safely in cash when there are no great opportunities.

Get top options trading picks each week that can help you make money in any market. The first issue of Cabot Options Trader comes out June 7, and we are offering a special Charter Subscriber price for readers who sign up now.

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