About Lawrence D. Cavanagh

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Lawrence D. Cavanagh is a contributor to TheOptionsInsider Web site, and the Editor and Senior Analyst of The Value Line Daily Options Survey.

The Value Line Daily Options Survey offers evaluations and rankings on virtually the entire universe of regularly listed equity and ETF options, using the Value Line common stock ranks and proprietary volatility forecasting methodology.

Before joining Value Line in 1991, Cavanagh was an options strategist for Capital Market Technologies (subsidiary of Elders Finance), helping design long-term synthetic foreign currency and gold option hedges.

Before that, he was Director of Foreign Currency Options for the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).

Other work experience includes Dean Witter Reynolds (VP, Senior Currency Analyst), European American Bank (Director of Currency Forecasting) and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Assistant Economist).

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