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Articles about options trading (150-200 of 2004)
- Tax Tips For Traders
By: Matt kaldor | - For the successful trader, the best tax advice is to incorporate.
With the proliferation of online stock and option trading, traders are looking for tax advice on the best way to structure their trading business. This especially true for day traders, those people that produce most or all of their income from trading. An individual or sole proprietor cannot take advantage of the numerous tax advantages and asset protection strategies available to companies. In order to gain the ...
Tags: Tax tips for traders, tax advice, day traders, stock, options, trading, mutual funds
- What Is Options Trading?
By: Paul Mikos | - In a volatile economy, if you know what you are doing, options trading can be a great way to make money for a small investor. Options are purchased with no obligation to take any action on them. It is important to remember, though, that options involve some risk and that there is a binding contract with any options trading.
Options are basically contracts that give the purchaser the right to buy or sell a stock or other security for a fixed amount within a given time period. In the Unit ...
Tags: covered call trading * KEI 0.107, investing courses
- Learn About The Stock Market From The Best!
By: Mira Williams | - There are many companies that specialize in trading on the stock market, sharing their experience with anyone interested. Their main specialty is technical analysis, these specialists putting all of their knowledge into profitable trading.
As a professional trader on the stock market, you will learn the proper moment to enter and the proper moment to exit. The stock market can pose a number of traps, especially when it comes to someone who lacks the necessary experience. You can appeal t ...
Tags: day trading, swing trading, stock market, technical analysis, online trading, stock picks, options trading, day trader, trading on line, options strat
- Commodity Options Trading
By: gisel | - Commodity futures trading simply involve the exchange of all the primary products. It can also be related to buying and selling of all the future contracts in Silver, Gold, Oil, Copper, Zinc, Wheat or any of the physical products you can think of. These commodities are simply bought and sold in standardized contracts. These commodity options trading products are uniform as one of its fraction serves the same purpose as the other.
So, a barrel of oil or an ounce of gold or silver o ...
Tags: corn futures trading, commodity options
- A Look At The Short-sale Uptick Rule
By: Scott Downing | - There has been quite a bit of discussion lately about short selling and the "uptick rule." In fact, some believe that the steps towards reinstating these rules have helped bolster stocks of late. What is the uptick rule and why is the mere mention of doing away with said rule possibly creating a rally? Let's take a look.
First, a brief refresher on short selling. The textbook definition is when an investor sells a stock that he/she doesn't own. The seller's investor loans the ...
Tags: options, trading, stock, market, investing, invest, investor, retire, retirement, retiree
- Bear Market Rally?
By: Bob Lang | - What Do We Call It? A Bear Market Rally
Lots of talk and excitement about this recent rally. Impressive by most standards: two 90% breadth/volume days, two moves of 4% or higher in a short timeframe, nearly 10% gains on the week. Further, the financials finally 'woke up' and kickstarted the rally on Thursday and did not relent. All good stuff, right? Let's hold off the bull parties for a bit. Sentiment continues to auger a short term overbought status (more on that below). ...
Tags: options, trading, stock, market, investing, invest, investor, retire, retirement, retiree
- Can Oil Be Turning The Corner?
By: Price Headley | - Has Oil turned the corner versus Gold?
The relationship between Gold and Oil prices has long been examined and there are many theories about it. Let's take a look at the recent relative performance of these 2 key bellwether commodities and see if any trend changes are emerging. We will use USO as a proxy for Oil, USO is the U.S. Oil Fund ETF which seeks to reflect the spot price of West Texas light sweet crude oil. For Gold, we will use GLD, which is the SPDR Gold Shares ETF th ...
Tags: options, trading, stock, market, investing, invest, investor, retir
- Avoid These Companies When Buying Stock In 2009
By: Nick Messe | - Most of the business news since even before the major events of September and October 2008 has been very unsettling. Several major high profile companies have already bit the dust due to declining consumer demand, sagging sales, and a credit market that has made it almost impossible for poorly performing companies to refinance debts or extend their credit arrangements. Businesses continue to lay off workers, hold onto cash for as long as possible, and do whatever they can to stay in business.
Tags: buy stock, investing, stock market, online options trading, options trading online
- Cheap Stock Trading Software Online Watch Me Make 6000 Dollars Live On Video
By: Roland Kucci | - A large number of beginner investors discover that penny stocks are a good way to get going working the stock markets but they are difficult to locate and only deal with on occasion. So, how precisely do you trade in penny stocks when you're interested in establishing an investment?
Unfortunately Penny stocks do not deal on renowned stock markets such as New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and AMEX - rather, shares are traded over-the-counter, and infrequently so. Many investo ...
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- Cheap Stock Trading Software Watch How I Make 6000 Dollars Live
By: Roland Kucci | - Many beginner investors find out that penny stocks are a simple method to get started working the stock market but they are troublesome to discover and only dealt with on occasion. So, just how precisely do you deal in penny stocks when you're interested in producing an investment?
Unfortunately Penny stocks do not trade on well-known stock exchanges such as NYSE, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, and AMEX - rather, stocks or shares are traded over-th ...
Tags: options trading software, automated stock trading, stock trading systems, stock picking software, st
- How To Start Investing In The Stock Market - Taking Advantage Of The Stock Market Crash
By: Peter Bosch | - There has never been a better time to enter the stock market. Despite the rumors that the market is risky right now, this is the time to jump in! Read on to see where to start trading with the biggest advantage.
The latest trading myth to get around is that this is a bad time for the stock market. This stems from the credit crisis and from those who have suffered loss from the recent stock market crash.
Well let me clear this up now - The stock market crash has onl ...
Tags: Stock market trading, investing stock market, penny stocks, forex, furures, options, trading secrets
- Top 6 Trading Mistakes - How To Beat The Common Pit Falls Of The Average Trader
By: Peter Bosch | - You might have heard that 95% of traders are unsuccessful. Unfortunately it is true. But this is because most traders are making the same mistakes that the other grinning 5% have avoided. Research has shed light on certain mistakes they all seem to have in common. If you can avoid them too, you will be far closer to joining that 5% than ever before.
Some of these common trading mistakes may be familiar to you. This isn't the first time they have been revealed, but that hasn't made ...
Tags: Stock market trading, stock market mistakes, penny stocks, forex, furures, options, trading secrets
- Currency Options Trading - Offer Limited Risk And Unlimited Rewards How To Use Them Correctly
By: Samuel Leslie Berkovits | - Currency options trading offers traders a great advantage I times of high volatility which is the staying power - so long as your option comes in the money, before expiry you make money regardless of where prices spike in the interim...
The problem most traders have is not spotting market direction, its getting their market timing right with their trading signal so they don't get stopped out. They know which way prices are going to go, get stopped out and then see the trend go rig ...
Tags: currency trading options, currency trading, currency trading system, forex trading, forex
- Put Options Used In The Collar Strategy Can Protect Your Stocks
By: James J. Dehoiver | - Hoping and praying that the stocks that you just bought will go up is not the best strategy to use, however it is the one very often used by the average Joe stock trader. The only salvation they have is that in bull markets most stocks will go up.
In fact when the market goes up about 70% of stocks will also go up and in the same way when the market goes down it will also take about 70% down with it. This is what is called trading with the trend, you can see that 75 out of 100 sto ...
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- All-or-none Orders In Stock Trading
By: Pat Jackson | - If you are an investor who relies heavily on penny stocks, the all-or-none order (AON) is extremely important. The AON order works to safeguard your purchase by providing the guarantee that you either receive every single stock that you requested or none at all. This type of order can problematic when a particular company lacks the cash to stand behind their stocks or a limit has been placed on the order.
All-or-none orders are the lowest priority of your stockbroker therefore ...
Tags: investing, stock investing, stock market, stock trading, forex, options trading
- A Business Blueprint To Stocks
By: Pat Jackson | - Because of the large size of the stock market, beginner investors seem to feel overwhelmed as to where to even begin investing their money. To most people, the stock market presents a tangled web of options but does not provide the road map of clarity to direct their way along way in their investment adventure. The key to investing in the stock market is to become as educated as possible so that you know exactly what is taking place at all times. This helps people to make logical and sound de ...
Tags: investing, stock investing, stock market, stock trading, forex, options trading
- The Stock Replacement Covered Call Strategy
By: Ron Ianieri | - Back in 2003, (October and November '03), the giant biotech Amgen (AMGN) came under some intense pressure, trading down about $12.00 before it found what appeared to be a decent level of support, and began to consolidate. At this level, anyone interested in going long Amgen at a discounted price would be advised to do so. Implied volatility was high coming off this precipitous drop, which caused premiums in the options to increase considerably.
This scenario can be a very attracti ...
Tags: options trading, options trading strategies, stock options trading, stock trading
- Options Trading: The Protective Put Strategy In Different Scenarios
By: Ron Ianieri | - As previously stated, when we buy a stock, three potential outcomes exist. The stock can go up, go down, or remain stagnant. Let's hypothesize results across these three scenarios. Say you buy the stock for $31.00 and buy the front month 30 put for $1.00.
In the 'up' scenario, let's assume the stock price is $31.50 at expiration. The results are that you have a $.50 gain from capital appreciation and a $1.00 loss from the purchase of the put which combined gives us a $.50 overall ...
Tags: options trading, options trading strategies, stock options trading, stock trading
- Advantages And Disadvantages Of At-the-money Option, In-the-money Option And Out-of-the-money Option
By: Brett Fogle | - An at-the-money option has both advantages and disadvantages over stock and in-the-money options. First, the at-the-money option will be cheaper then both the stock and the in-the-money option. So there is less capital requirement and less total risk.
Remember, when buying an option, you can only lose what you spend. The problem is the amount of extrinsic in the at-the-money option.
In order for you to profit from buying an at-the-money option, you need the stock to ...
Tags: day trading options, futures options trading, options trading strategies, stock options trading, options trading tutorial, online options trading, opt
- Day Trading: 5 Things You Must Avoid
By: andrew chin | - Day trading can really be a great money making opportunity, especially if you have the resources to spare. All updates are posted in real time online and the trading floor is constantly active that it is truly impossible for you not to be in the loop, unless, you do it deliberately.
Some investors say day trading is really simple. And there really isn't nothing to it - that is, If you have the proper background. There are some individuals, however, that make common mistakes during ...
Tags: Stock Trading, Day Trading, Forex Trading, Futures Trading, Currency Trading, Options Trading, stock
- Online Forex Trading: Make Your Fortune Today
By: andrew chin | - Online FOREX trading is the Largest money maker across all forms of financial instruments available on the investment floor. Although it is not the first form of trade investment, it has increased in popularity and is now the more common and preferred investment tool.
As a matter of fact, FOREX today is larger than all other markets combined with trades raking in trillions of dollars everyday on the exchange. Unlike stock or futures exchanges, FOREX doesn't have a trading floor.< ...
Tags: Stock Trading, Day Trading, Forex Trading, Futures Trading, Currency Trading, Options Trading, stock
- In-the-money, Out-of-the-money, & At-the-money Trades
By: Brett Fogle | - An option can be described by its strike price's proximity to the stock's price. An option can either be in-the-money (ITM), out-of-the-money (OTM), or at-the-money (ATM).
An at-the-money option is described as an option whose exercise or strike price is approximately equal to the present price of the underlying stock.
For instance, if Microsoft (MSFT) was trading at $65.00, then the January $65.00 call would an example of an at-the-money call option. Similarly, the ...
Tags: options trading, stock options trading, options trading strategy
- The "up" Scenario
By: Ron Lanieri | - In the "up" scenario, the maximum gain that can be attained is the stock finishing at $10.00 or higher.
At $10.00, you would profit from the full value of the extrinsic value of the option which is $.50 and you would also have $.50 of capital appreciation from the stock for a total of $1.00. This represents a 10.52% one-month return or an annualized return of 126.32%.
It is not realistic to expect this type of return every month but remember, recent studies show tha ...
Tags: options trading, option trading, option strategy, how to trade options
- Time Decay
By: Ron Lanieri | - Time decay, also known as theta, is defined as the rate by which an option's value erodes into expiration. The value of the option over parity to the stock is called extrinsic value.
Since an option is a depreciating asset, meaning it has a limited life, the extrinsic value in the option will wither away daily until expiration. This "decay" is not a linear function meaning it is not equally distributed between all of the days to expiration.
As the option gets closer ...
Tags: options trading, option trading, option strategy, how to trade options
- The Covered Call / Buy-write Strategy
By: Ron Lanieri | - For better or worse, most investors purchase stocks with the intent of holding their shares for an extended period of time.
We do this mainly because the media and industry professionals have drilled into our heads, year after year, time after time, that it's best to buy and hold. The recent bull market phenomenon also fueled this mindset because the 'buy and hold' strategy worked extremely well - for a while.
Whether or the not the 'buy and hold' strategy is still ...
Tags: options trading, option trading, option strategy, how to trade options
- Trading Naked Calls & Puts
By: Ron Lanieri | - An option is a derivative trading product that is best used by investors as a hedging tool providing profit protection and profit enhancement. Although it is a powerful risk management tool, it can also be used effectively as a stand-alone trading vehicle.
Under the proper conditions, options do not have to be paired with stock or another option to be an effective trading tool. To successfully trade naked options, an investor must realize that certain options will fit certain scen ...
Tags: options trading, option trading, option strategy, how to trade options
- Importance Of Education To The Investors
By: Johnson Bill | - How many think the market is performing poorly?
And how many feel the markets performance is neutral?
Actually none of these answers is correct.You see, the market does not perform, you do.You perform!
Sometimes you perform well, and other times you do not perform so well. The market doesn't perform, it moves.It moves up, it moves down and it moves sideways.
It moves along like anything else that travels in a business cycle.If the ...
Tags: online option trading, options trading school, option trading school, online stock option trading, online trading options, traders and investors, home
- Options Trading And The Up"' Scenario
By: John Roney | - The maximum gain that can be attained in this "up" scenario is when the stock finishing at $10.00 or higher.
At $10.00, you would profit from the full value of the extrinsic value of the option which is $.50 and you would also have $.50 of capital appreciation from the stock for a total of just $1.00. This represents a 10.52% for a one-month return or an annualized return of 126.32%.
It is not realistic to expect this type of return every month but remember, recent ...
Tags: online option trading, options trading school, option trading school, online stock option trading, online trading options, traders and investors, home
- "stagnant" & "down" Scenarios
By: John Roney | - "Stagnant" Scenario
When we apply the covered call strategy to the stagnant stock scenario, we take a negative return scenario and turn it into a positive scenario. Remember, when we sell an option, we receive a premium for doing so.
When the stock does not move during the option's life, the extrinsic value of the option goes to zero. The money paid for the option goes to the seller. We'll take a look at how this sets up.
Let's go back to our previous ...
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- Put Option
By: John Roney | - A put option is a contract between two parties (a buyer and a seller) whereby the buyer acquires the right but not the obligation to sell a specified stock or other underlying instrument at a specified price by a specified date.
The seller of a put option assumes the obligation of taking delivery of the stock or other underlying instrument from the buyer should the buyer wish to exercise his option. The put is known as a short instrument which means that the buyer profits from the ...
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- The Importance Of Volatility
By: John Roney | - Volatility is defined as the degree to which the price of a stock or other underlying instrument tends to move or fluctuate over a period of time.
Implied Volatility is a value derived from the option's price. It indicated what the market's perception of the volatility of the stock or underlying will be during the future life of the contract.
A stock that has a wide trading range (moved around a lot) is said to have a high volatility. A stock that has a narrow tradi ...
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- Premium And Parity
By: John Roney | - Premium
Premium is the total amount of money (price) you pay for an option. So, if the Microsoft (MSFT) May 65 calls cost you $1.50 then the $1.50 is the amount of the premium of the option.
The total price of an option (premium) consists of two components. Those two components are intrinsic value and extrinsic value.
Intrinsic value, also called parity, is the amount by which an option is in the money. In the case of a call, the intrinsic value is eq ...
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- Difference Between In-the-money (itm), Out-of-the-money (otm), Or At-the-money (atm).
By: John Roney | - An option can be described by its strike price's proximity to the stock's price. An option can either be in-the-money (ITM), out-of-the-money (OTM), or at-the-money (ATM).
An at-the-money option is described as an option whose exercise or strike price is approximately equal to the present price of the underlying stock.
For instance, if Microsoft (MSFT) was trading at $65.00, then the January $65.00 call would an example of an at-the-money call option. Similarly, the ...
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- Two Kinds Of Options Are Calls And Puts
By: John Roney | - A call option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to buy a specific security at a specific price by a specific date. It's a way of "locking in" the purchase price of the stock for a period of time.
A put option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to sell a specific security at a specific price by a specific date. It's a way of "locking in" the sales price of a stock for a period of time.
The specific date is known as the contract's expirati ...
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- Options Basics
By: John Roney | - What is an Option?
An option is a traded security that is a derivative product.
By derivative product we mean that it is a product whose value is based upon or derived from the price of something else. Since we are talking about stocks, a stock option is based upon, among other things, the price of the underlying stock.
There are also options on other traded securities such as currencies, indexes and interest rates, but here we will limit our discussi ...
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- Investor's Responsibility When He Is Alone In The Market.
By: John Roney | - In today's market environment, the best remedy for this situation is for you to get more involved in your own investing decisions.
The problem is that most individual investors do not have the knowledge, resources, or time to spend doing their own research, stock selection, execution, and position management.
The development and expansion of the internet has solved part of this problem in that the internet now provides timely information and resources, right at the ...
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- Importance Of Education To The Investor
By: John Roney | - How many of you out there think that the market is performing well?
How many think the market is performing poorly?
And how many feel the markets performance is neutral?
Actually none of these answers is correct. You see, the market does not perform, you do. You perform!
Sometimes you perform well, and other times you do not perform so well. The market doesn't perform, it moves. It moves up, it moves down and it moves sideways.
...
Tags: online option trading, options trading school, option trading school, online stock option trading, online trading options, traders and investors, home
- Which Stock To Buy?
By: Amanda Too | - Before we need to know which stock to buy, we need to know the fundamental of an individual companies and how they perform in terms of revenue, profits, assets, and borrowing.
It is important to know about all these as the company's share price is ultimately the market's reflection of how valuable that company is. If a company is making profits and these profits are growing year on year, with borrowings contained to low levels and revenues also growing, then is an ideal company to ...
Tags: Stock Selection, Pick Stock, Options Trading, Options Strategy
- How Option Trading Profit In Any Market Conditions
By: Jason Ng | - All stock market multi millionaires must be able to profit under any kind of market conditions. If you are able to profit only when stock markets go up, then you will find it a gargantuan task to ever have any sustainable success, much less become a stock market millionaire.
Yes! It is possible and easy to profit whether stocks are up, down or sideways using option trading. If the ability to trade all kinds of market conditions is the doorway to becoming a stock market millionaire ...
Tags: Option trading, options trading, call option, put option, option strategies
- Make Compound Interest Work In Your Favor
By: William Tan | - The mention of compound interest will usually arouse knowing nods in the room. However, if everyone seriously understood what compound interest is, then there wouldn't be as many people falling into the depths of bankruptcy due to credit card debts. Without a doubt, financial institutions are making the most out of this moneymaking concept to the disadvantage of the debtors a.k.a. general public.
Do you know what compound interest is, then? Essentially, it's interest generated on ...
Tags: Financial Freedom, Compound Interest, Options Trading
- What Is The Best Forex Trading System?
By: Sam Beatson | - There is a lot of talk in the retail forex trading world about "The Holy Grail" of online currency trading. What this means exactly is that a lot of people spend a lot of time, money, effort and energy trying to find some kind of absolute best forex trading system but without success because there just is not a single best forex trading system.
It would probably be wise to assume that one of the best forex trading systems or strategies would be those used by the bank and other ins ...
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- 13 Steps For Profitable Call Option Trading
By: Wai Hoong Chin | - Many traders like to use more sophisticated options strategies in their trading but many times the simple call options trade is the most suitable trade for the market condition. Follow the steps below to increase your probability to profit from call option trading.
1. Determine that the price of the underlying instrument is going up. Trading call option is a directional strategy. This means you have to pick the direction of the market, and in order to profit the market should move ...
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- Stock Options
By: David A. Sorenger | - Stock options are a great way to leverage investment capital for speculation and to reduce the risk for existing stock positions in your portfolio or even to earn an extra riskless income.
There are so many option strategies that whole books were written about this topic. Before you can think about mastering advanced option techniques, you must start exploring the basic option strategies first, the simple call and put option.
What is a stock option, exactly? If you ...
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- Writing Covered Calls
By: Tony Lassito | - Covered Calls
Options are most commonly used by investors for either leverage and / or insurance (hedging). As leverage, options allow the investor to control an equity position without paying 100% of the share price. For example, rather than going on the open market and purchasing 100 shares of IBM for $8,257 ($82.57 per share), an investor could control the same amount of shares at a given strike price for a fraction of the cost such as the Jan 07 $80 strike with a total cost of ...
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- September 14 Is The World-wide "improving The Success Rate Day" In Trading
By: Brian McAboy | - Copyright 2006 New Ireland Ventures, LLC
On September 14th, 2006, trading veterans, brokers and tens of thousands of traders are coming together to improve the miserable success rate in the trading industry.
This day is about removing the obstacle that holds traders back from success. By doing so, the success rates of tens of thousands of traders will change and the success rate across the entire industry will see a dramatic improvement.
When Roger Ba ...
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- Trading Industry Sees Repeat Of May 6, 1954 This Thursday (sept 14)
By: Brian McAboy | - Copyright 2006 New Ireland Ventures, LLC
An effort by a single person can sometimes change the world.
On May, 1954, Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, and in doing so, he removed the barrier that had been in place for decades: the belief that it was not possible for a human to run the mile in under four minutes. The belief had been supported by the medical community with studies and evidence that the human body had physical limitations and that this was a ...
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