Stock trading is one of the last true meritocracies. All that matters for your investment success are your own decisions. Stock trading is a precision-based activity and one tiny mistake in judgment could send you plummeting right to the bottom and result in a huge loss.
Likewise, the opposite could happen. You may make a great [...]
In this article I want to describe the basics of options: what they are and how one can trade them.
Options trading is extremely popular and provides far greater possible returns than does trading in the underlying stocks. But it also carries more risk.
So it is extremely important to understand how options work as financial instruments [...]
The seller of a time spread buys the nearer month option and sells the outer-month option in a one to one ratio.
In order to profit from the sale of the time spread, the seller is looking basically for two things.
First is a decrease in implied volatility. As volatility decreases, the out-month option (which the seller [...]
Trading stock options can be enticing for those new to the equity markets. Their relative low cost as compared to the price of the underlying stock is what makes them so appealing since the amount of money laid out can be enormous when purchasing stock rather than stock options. Some people even refer to the [...]
When vertical spreads are mentioned, they quite often come with monikers such as ‘bull’ and ‘bear’. This lends most to think of vertical spreads as directional plays which is true. However, vertical spreads can be used to take advantage of two other potential trading opportunities – time decay and volatility movement.
If you are looking for [...]
Spread traders must understand how to properly calculate accurate volatility. In order to get accurate volatility levels, you must first determine a base volatility for the two options involved in the spread. Getting a base volatility must be done because different volatilities in different months cannot and do not get weighted evenly mathematically.
Since they are [...]
I am sure many of you have heard of a sophisticated sounding strategy called the Butterfly. For some reason, it seems to be the darling strategy of many of those ‘teach-you in five hours’ type option companies. They publicize the ‘mystical magical Butterfly’ and the ’sophisticated Condor’ as if they were going to unlock the [...]
GlobalTec announced today the release of the Wizetrade for Options software, a cutting edge options trading tool that combines access to a wealth of information with the latest navigation capabilities traders need to make efficient, effective trading decisions.
In conjunction with the release of Wizetrade for Options, GlobalTec also released an upgraded version of Option Hunter [...]
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