Archive for November 2009

Option Trading Tip – Are You A Jack Of All Trades & A Master Of None?

I make a living out of trading options…and a pretty good one at that!
For a long time I couldn’t say those words as I struggled just to hold on to my capital, let alone make it grow.
Though there were several reasons why I struggled (including being grossly undercapitalized and at the same [...]

Travel Writing: How to Make Money Blogging About Your Travels

Have you ever wanted to travel the world and make money for sharing your adventures with the world? Using the web and a simple blog, this couldn’t be easier. There are just a few simple, yet hidden techniques for making a healthy income for blogging about your travels.
In fact, the number of underground travelers who [...]

The Art of Hedging in Options Trading

A hedge is an investment made to offset the risk incurred by entering another investment. Essentially you are setting up a bet on both sides so that one offsets the other and you can end up winning either way.
Think of it as a form of insurance.
Options are frequently used in hedging.
For example, you can speculate [...]

Earn from Home by Investing in Online Options Trading

One of the easiest ways to start earning at the comforts of your home is to invest in online options trading.  Options trading would be similar to stock trading because buying and selling assets are involved.  However, trading options is more versatile and involves fewer risks if you are a conservative trader.  You can make [...]

Looking for some Free Money

Government Grants are funds amassed by the Government for their citizens. They can be used for multiple causes like housing ,businesses, personal needs, renovation, even a family car. We tend to think that grants are like a gift, but they are not. The Government has established certain criteria that has to be met, and I [...]

Trading Options

Option is a legal agreement between buyer and seller to buy or sell security at an agreed price in a certain period of time. It is quite similar to insurance that you pay an amount of money in order that your property is protected by the insurance company. The difference between these two is option [...]

Be a Money Spinner with Call Option Trading

You could be a money spinner with call option trading. Several traders in the market try to make a difference by adopting complex call option techniques. However, at times when you look around for complex solutions, the solution may actually be one that is absolutely simple.
Similarly sometimes it is the simple or the basic call [...]

4 Ways to Make Money as a Travel Writer

Have you ever wanted to travel the world and make money for writing about what you see? It’s not as hard as you may imagine. Using a few underground techniques, you can be making a healthy income in no-time flat for writing about traveling the world!
Here are the ways you can make money as a [...]

Factors that Affect Strangle Prices

Since the Strangles’ profit potential is dependent on its price from purchase time to expiration, the investor should be aware of the several factors that affect the Strangles’ price.
Stock Price
The first is, of course, stock price. The stock’s price will dictate the value of both components of the Strangle – the call and put thus [...]

Option Trading – Developing An Option Trading System

There are 2 kinds of option trading systems in general; Discretionary and Mechanical. A discretionary option trader follows no specific rules but chooses, enters and exits an option trade using all of his knowledge or gut feeling. A mechanical option trader is one who translates his knowledge of choosing stocks, entry and exit into objective [...]