If you’ve been trading stocks for some time and have never tried options, then you may want to give them a go. Stock options are more speculative but offer flexibility, diversification and control to protect your stock portfolio or create more investment income. So, here are some things you should know about options.
An option [...]
Options trading involves trading the option to buy or sell a stock, at a set price (strike price), until the option expires. With commodities, this is also known as futures trading. Options expire on the third Friday of each month. Options with expirations of over a year are called LEAPS, which stands for Long Term [...]
The first thing that you have to know before trading in stock option is that stock options are not stocks, and just because you trade in stock that does not license you to trade in stock option by default. When you are planning to trade in stock option, you should find out as much as [...]
Short of having a crystal ball, picking winners when stock option trading is not as hard as many people would have you believe. In the first place, when considering purchasing or selling stock options, you need to conduct extensive research on the underlying stock yourself, or rely on someone else to do it for you [...]
There is much talk today about the earth’s ecosystem, how human activity has destroyed much of it and continues to do so at an alarming pace. Most of us know by now that human activity, as it is practiced today, is not sustainable in the long run. As a species we are loosing our home [...]
When I was engaged on my first baby steps into spread trading, trying to figure out how best to get started, I decided pretty early on that there wasn’t any need to re-invent the wheel, markets were primarily driven by human emotions, and those haven’t really changed over time. As, ahem, nothing succeeds like success, [...]
If you are like most people, in these times of economic uncertainty you are looking for a way to earn extra money, that doesn’t take a lot of time, preferably from home and that doesn’t require a lot of capital to get started. If you fall into this category then options trading might be just [...]
sing credit spreads is a good way to make a consistent income using options without taking too much risk. However very few non-professional investors know how to use it and believe it to be too complicated. This article shows you how to write credit spreads.
The first thing you want to do is check the [...]