Is options trading risky? This is one of the most popular questions that options trading beginners ask. In fact, my clients ask me this same question all the time. I would then ask them “What do you mean by risky?”. The usual answer would be “Can I lose a lot of money in options trading?”.
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We can classify trading strategies followed by all types of traders into two broad categories as directional trading strategies and non directional trading strategies. Both strategies require different types of approaches, different levels of market knowledge and different trading requirements. Directional trading strategies are trading strategies which include taking long and short positions in market. [...]
There are plenty of consumers out there who are looking for self storage options and other types of storage because there are large concerns regarding storage, including downsizing, long distance moving, vehicle storage, boat storage and other forms of storage. There are a variety of methods to go about locating the right provider for storage, [...]
Have you or your friends ever attended an options seminar, learned how “simple” it is to make a high income from options trading but yet when you did it for real, you failed to make any money consistently?
Indeed, from my observation in this industry over the past decade, I have noticed that the chances of [...]
Option is a very popular derivative because its price is cheaper than other derivative such as future. Blue chip stock is a very volatile stock but it is very expensive. However, by buying option of the blue chip stock, we could earn profit just similarly like buying the stock. Investing and trading option seem to [...]
Forex Options Trading is not new in the trading circles but interestingly, not all Forex traders and investors trade in options. There is this notion that such type of trading is too complicated for the veteran traders and even more so for complete beginners. What many investors fail to realize is that Forex Options is [...]
An options trading rolling strategy is a strategy where you move your strike point to a new strike point during the month. Rolling basically means moving. In the world of options trading, this movement happens when you move positions from one strike point to another. That can either happen when you move [...]
There are four different types of players in the stock option trading game. They are buyers of calls, sellers of calls, buyers of puts, and seller of puts. The buyers are called holders, and the sellers are called writers. Buyers of calls are said to have a long position, while buyers of puts are said [...]
You may or may not have heard of credit spread option trading but they can be used to profit in bullish, neutral or bearish conditions.
They are a cashflow generating strategy that involves both the buying and selling of either calls or puts of different strike prices but same expiration date to establish an overall [...]
It is very common that stock is transacted in blocks divisible by 100, which is called a round lot. A round lot has become a standard trading unit on the public exchanges for quite sometime ago. In stock market, we have the right to buy and sell an unlimited number of shares as long [...]