Tag: options trading
Options Education: Understanding Synthetic Stock
“I just want to say one word to you, just one word, synthetics”
Obviously this is play on the famous quote from that fine old...
Options Trading Education: Define Your Risk
Unless one is a professional options trader, their options trading setups should include well-defined risk. I do not advise being naked options short, even net...
Trading Options In Three Dimensions
“It is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens”...
Trading Iron Condors: Try a Condor But Don’t Lose Your Shirt
Make 10% per month!! Sounds great doesn't it? That's what a lot of option trading websites are claiming these days. Are they false claims?...
Buying Put Options for Investment Protection
By Jeff Wilson After writing some lengthy multi part articles, I’ve decided to make this next post to be a lot shorter. Nevertheless, I...
Apple Options Trading Idea into Earnings
By Brad Tompkins
Since we’ve now entered another earnings reporting season, I thought I’d take the time to layout a nice options cash flow trade. The...
Options Strategies for Earnings Season
By Jeff Wilson
In the previous post I talked about supplementing stock positions with options as part of a hedging strategy. In this article, I will...
Supplementing Stock Positions with Options Strategies
By Jeff Wilson
After discussing some simple terms and definitions on options here, the next step is to discuss some Options strategies that can be used...
Options Trading Defined
Earnings season is right around the corner. And while I plan on posting an article specifically about trading options and/or stock into binary events...
Options Basics: Using a Call Spread to Fine-Tune Risk/Reward
By Brad Tompkins
So far in this series we’ve introduced option fundamentals along with a speculative bullish call trade, explored protective put options as a way...