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+271Chapter seventeen: A summary an d concluding comments
+ 3. Enable processing of a hitherto unimaginable degree. An unlimited number of stocks 
+may be analyzed. Choosing those to trade with a computer will be dealt with in 
+Chapter 21, Selection of Stocks to Chart.
+ 4. Allow the investor to trade on ECNs or in electronic marketplaces where there are no 
+pit traders or locals to fiddle with prices.
+Advancements in investment technology, part 1: 
+developments in finance theory and practice
+Numerous pernicious and useless inventions, services, and products litter the internet 
+and the financial industry marketplace; but modern finance theory and technology are 
+important and must be taken into consideration by the general investor. This chapter will 
+explore the minimum the moderately advanced investor needs to know about advances 
+in theory and practice. And it will point the reader to further resources if he desires to 
+continue more advanced study.
+Instruments of limited (or non) availability during the time of Edwards and Magee 
+included exchange traded options on stocks, futures on averages and indexes, options 
+on futures and indexes, and securitized indexes and averages, as a partial list of only the 
+most important instruments. Undoubtedly, one of the most important developments of 
+the modern era is the creation of trading instruments that allow the investor to trade and 
+hedge the major indexes. Of these, the instruments created by the Chicago Board of Trade 
+(CBOT
+®) are of singular importance. These are the CBOT® DJIASM Futures and the CBOT® 
+DJIASM Futures Options, which are discussed in greater detail at the end of this chapter. 
+(EN9: Not so singular, perhaps. Probably of greater importance to readers of this book are the AMEX 
+iShares, particularly DIA, SPY, and QQQ, which are instruments (ETFs) that offer the investor 
+direct participation in the major indexes as though they were stocks.)
+General developments of great importance in finance theory and practice are found in 
+the following sections.
+Options
+From the pivotal moment in 1973 when Fischer Black (friend and college classmate) and his 
+partner, Myron Scholes, published their—excuse the usage—paradigm-setting Model, the 
+options and derivatives markets have grown from negligible to trillions of dollars a year. 
+The investor who is not informed about options is playing with half a deck. The subject, 
+however, is beyond the scope of this book, which hopes only to offer some perspective on 
+the subject and guides to the further study necessary for most traders and many investors.
+Something in the neighborhood of 30% or more of options expire worthless. This is 
+probably the most important fact to know about options. (There is a rule of thumb about 
+options called the 60–30–10 rule: 60% are closed out before expiration, 30% are “long at 
+expiration,” meaning they are worthless, and 10% are exercised.) Another fact to know 
+about options occurred in the Reagan Crash of 1987; the money puts bought at $0.625 on 
+October 16 were worth hundreds of dollars on October 19—if you could get the broker to 
+pick up the telephone and trade them. (The editor had a client at Options Research, Inc. 
+during that time who lost $57 million in three days and almost brought down a major 
+Chicago bank; he had sold too many naked puts.)
+The most sophisticated and skilled traders in the world make their livings (quite 
+sumptuous livings, thank you) trading options. Educated estimates have been made that 
+as many as 90% of retail options traders lose money. That combined with the fact that by far