BALTIMORE – April 2, 2009 – Taipan Publishing Group, a leading financial research service, has launched Taipan’s Strategic Trader, a free blog aimed at providing daily insight on stock options trading. The new blog address is: http://www.taipanpublishinggroup.com/taipan-strategic-trader.html.

“Our new options trading blog specializes in call options picks and puts," said Sandy Franks, Executive Publisher of Taipan Publishing Group. “We're extremely pleased to offer this free service to the Taipan Publishing Group community because with options, we have no limits and everything is in play."

Taipan’s Strategic Trader includes options picks and alerts by veteran advisor, Andy Snyder. Andy’s goal is to use his skills in Wall Street research and analysis to help his readers discover potential profit opportunities unfamiliar to the average investor.

Andy, a former wealth advisor turned MBA, has had his award-winning work published in numerous prestigious publications, has been an invited guest on Fox News and other outlets and played a lead editorial role at Today’s Financial News.