Wouldn’t it be great if we could buy an option with five months left until expiration and sell an option with 2 months left until expiration for the same price? You couldn’t lose. Well we can’t. I love options spreads so much I realized something very important. We can buy a spread that has a [...]
Here we will help you get a handle on what stock options are and how they work. The game of buying and selling stock options began in 1973, when contracts were standardized and started trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Let me walk you through my first options transaction in the summer [...]
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In Trading Stock Options, experienced option trader Brian Burns, explains the basics of stock options and shows you how to trade the most successful option strategies. As you begin your journey on the option path, you’ll have the luxury of real-life trade examples to show you the way. The diagrams and charts help [...]
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“Cash for Life” I comfortably recommend to my friends, average investors. A relatively low risk way of making money. — Frederick P. Schadler, PhD. Associated Professor of Finance, East Carolina University”Cash for Life” I comfortably recommend to my friends, average investors. A relatively low risk way of [...]
The amount of stock options being traded in America is exploding! This is great news because there is far greater liquidity in the options market and many more money making opportunities for individual traders just like you. During the next ten weeks I will be writing articles on how you can profit from one of [...]
Welcome to the wonderful world of equity options. You may have heard that option trading is high risk, and indeed it is, for much the same reasons that spread betting is high risk. The instruments themselves are derivatives from the cash markets, and are highly geared, but options themselves were originally introduced to the US [...]
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Options, unlike stocks, are derivatives. That means that their value derives from the value of another financial instrument (called the underlying). The underlying can be a stock or futures contact or an index. For the purpose of this article we’ll concentrate on stocks.
An option is a contract between two parties, the writer (the seller) [...]
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Excellent presentation at the seminar. I strongly recommend Ron’s books and his VISIONS software. They are essential for finding solid stocks and profitable options. –Fred AndersonI highly recommend “Covered Calls and Naked Puts” by Ronald Groenke. It is an excellent supplemental text for Finance courses. The book [...]
Taking a look through the broadsheets of a business section you will notice that many companies offer their executive bonuses or part of their salaries for a good job. This is also known as “options”.
What actually are options? Do they have any link with stocks? What is meant by the phrase “options are exercised” [...]