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John Foy of Melbourne, Fla., relaxes in Antigua and Barbuda. He says, “[Traders should] only assume defined risk, enter delta-neutral positions with positive time decay and read SFO! Of the hundreds of e-mails and magazine subscriptions I receive, SFO hits the center of my target every month. And it is a topical paradise even in the tropical paradise, where I made time to read the pictured issue cover to cover.”

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