A lot of traders want to buy options in an effort to maximize gains and limit losses. Trading options strategies becomes normal today. Limiting losses to the purchase price of the option seems ideal, except for one major flaw, which is time decay.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange has estimation that over 80% of all options is [...]
When it comes to options trading, most people have been mystified by what seems like a lot of mumbo jumbo. This article will explain the investment terminology for Call Option in everyday terms that anyone can understand and appreciate.
To illustrate the concepts, let’s go on a shopping trip.
You’ve been thinking about buying a [...]
Just as elite athletes go through a specific warm-up routine for their body and their mind before competing at a meet, we too as option traders need to follow a specific routine/process before we enter a trade and compete in the markets.
Here is the step-by-step routine that I follow each market day when looking [...]
I started trading options in the late 90’s. After selling my first option and collecting an immediate credit I and became an option seller for life. I became a student of option selling strategies and started selling covered calls on stocks I brought and owned. I was doing OK collecting premiums month after month until [...]
I started trading options in the late 90’s. After selling my first option and collecting an immediate credit I and became an option seller for life. I became a student of option selling strategies and started selling covered calls on stocks I brought and owned. I was doing OK collecting premiums month after month until [...]
With Option Trading, you usually place a deal based on smart judgment. There are basic steps and useful techniques for option repair.
You cannot maintain the right position in an option trade all the time. You need to place a trade based on an intelligent judgment. It is somewhat likely to happen in the near future. [...]
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 [...]
A LEAP (Long-term Equity Anticipation Product) is simply a long-dated option.
LEAP options that don’t expire upto 2 years into the future give the buyer much more time to be right about the future direction of a stock and at the same time offer tremedous leverage.
LEAP option trading has become quite popular in recent years because [...]
Traders who are new to option trading sometimes hear the term ‘implied volatility’ thrown around by experienced option traders. Traders who have been training for while realize the importance of implied volatility and how it can affect their profitability. In this article, I would like to give an explanation for what implied volatility is, how [...]
Options are riskier to trade than stocks. That’s fairly well known. And we’ll get into why.
Since options have an expiry date the investor has to make a choice within a relatively short time frame. This adds risk and complexity to the trading scenario.
Also, since options are derivatives, they have no inherent worth. Their value is [...]