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The Art of Morphing

Ron Ianieri

Every position is the right position when things go exactly as planned. Unfortunately, things do not often go exactly as planned in the market. When all goes right, it is easy to make money but when things go wrong losses follow. So, when things start to go wrong, what can you do? How can you get out of your bad position that is losing money and into the right position quickly and efficiently and get back to making money? The answer is morphing! Morphing is the process in which the wrong position is quickly and efficiently changed to the right position by simply adding to or subtracting from the current position based on an understanding of synthetic positions. Morphing is how the professional floor traders manage their positions to adjust to movements in stock price, time, and volatility. Ron Ianieri - Ron started his career on the floor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange working on the Foreign Currency Options Floor just after the crash of '87. After two years he moved to the Equity Options Floor and was trained in option theory by well known technical and analytical traders Cooper, Neff and Associates. Ron then joined TFM Investment Group where he served as the Option Specialist in Dell Computer during the early 1990's at a time when DELL was one of the busiest option books in the US. During this period, Ron began to develop his highly respected Option Trader Trainee Course. He later became a manager at a large, fast growing specialist unit, Gateway Partners, where he was an integral part of their expansion. Ron was responsible for hiring and training new trader trainees and finalized the development of his Option Theory and Trading Course. He also aided in the development of the firms proprietary trading and strategic risk management program that featured several sophisticated pricing models and analytic tools. During his years on the floor, Ron served on several Philadelphia Stock Exchange Committees including; the Marketing Committee, the Automation Committee, and the Electronic Book Development Sub-Committee. After a four year stint at Gateway Partners, he went off the floor and joined a locally based proprietary trading desk. Since then, Ron has consulted various mutual funds and hedge funds on investment selection protocols, risk management, and position and portfolio hedging techniques.