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15th September 2009
The covered call is a tactic in which an investor writes (sells) a call option contract while simultaneously owning an equivalent number of shares of the underlying stock. It is most often employed when the investor, while optimistic on the underlying sto... Read >
Author: John Roark11th September 2009
The person, who sells option contract to the option buyer as his opening trade, is also known as option writer, seller or granter. Opposite trade to the option buyer is taken by the option writer. Because of this, he or she has the counter risk profile of... Read >
Author: Alexander Chong08th September 2009
Stock options trading can be dangerous business--very risky. Of course, folks get involved with it because it can also be extremely rewarding. With options, you leverage underlying assets for a certain period. You do not have to buy the assets, just pa... Read >
Author: Chris Kunnundro06th September 2009
One of the primary reasons investors choose to get into options trading is the potential to generate profits regardless of whether the market is going up or down.
Another benefit with options trading is that you’re not actually buying any assets. Yo... Read >
Author: CristianStan05th August 2009
If you happen to be a foreclosure investor, in a very competitive industry, you will certainly notice how extremely hard to pursue a closed deal on short sale properties. In the past, when times are still not that hard, together with double closings and ... Read >
Author: Flynna Sarah E. Molina01st August 2009
Many people are interested in Stock Options trading, it can be a great way to earn extra income or even replace a full-time job. You are asking for trouble if you go in and start making trades without having done some study and research before you start t... Read >
Author: Tina11th May 2009
The options market is a speculator's paradise. Buying and selling options contracts requires a knowledge of how they work and what gives them value. During the Great Housing Bubble, residential mortgages took on the characteristics of options contracts. T... Read >
Author: Robert Bell01st May 2009
The 1st quarter of 2009 saw dividend decreases outpacing increases, for the first time since 1955. Income investors are finding it increasingly challenging to find safe high dividend yields.
Free cash flow is an important measurement in assessing the s... Read >
Author: Robert hauver24th April 2009
Options are like insurance policies because they share many same characteristics. The difference between options and insurance policies that can be seen is their purpose; option and insurance have difference purpose. Both of them are used for different p... Read >
Author: Alexander Chong11th April 2009
Across the board: All the months of a particular futures contract or futures option contract, for example, if all the copper contracts open limit up, they were limit up "across the board."
Actuals: The physical or cash commodity, which is different fro... Read >
Author: Vicky Advani01st April 2009
I am positive you're not considering entering the currency markets as a social activity to fill up your day with something interested to do. If you're like everybody else that participates in the FX industry, you here for one purpose, to make money and th... Read >
Author: billaaa77717th March 2009
Options are like insurance policies because they share many same characteristics. The difference between options and insurance policies that can be seen is their purpose; option and insurance have difference purpose. Both of them are used for different p... Read >
Author: Alexander Chong03rd March 2009
The 2008 recession and stock market crash is the worst financial and economic crisis since the great depression. By Feb 2009, the Dow has dropped almost 50%, erasing all its gains since 1998. In terms of absolute points, the Dow has dropped over 7000 poi... Read >
Author: Jason Ng14th December 2008
There are generally two categories of Forex option brokers, the ones who offer online trading and those who do not. The Forex option brokers who do not offer online trading formats will generate their trades via the telephone.
There are various tradin... Read >
Author: Sherman C03rd December 2008
Options are attractive to the private trader due to their special advantages. By buying options, you are given the opportunity to participating in the market with limited known risk. Besides, the capital that you need to invest is just a small fraction of... Read >
Author: Alexander Chong03rd December 2008
Options are attractive to the private trader due to their special advantages. By buying options, you are given the opportunity to participating in the market with limited known risk. Besides, the capital that you need to invest is just a small fraction of... Read >
Author: Alexander Chong30th November 2008
FACT: 95% of forex trader do not know what is forex options, 4% of forex trader know what is forex options but they think that forex options was too complicated for them and only 1% use forex options for trading.
Why Forex Options? Options allow you to... Read >
Author: Timothy Stevens20th February 2008
Stock options are important investments to consider when you are building wealth in the stock market. The most basic definition for a stock option is a contract that allows an investor to purchase or sell a specified stock at a specified price, within a s... Read >
Author: Mika Hamilton11th February 2008
The economy is in trouble and so to is the housing market as foreclosures continue to rise as values tumble. If you are worried about any real estate you own declining in value, there is now a solution and it comes at an affordable cost.
If you are wo... Read >
Author: kelly price05th November 2007
Time decay, also known as theta, is defined as the rate by which an option’s value erodes into expiration. The value of the option over parity to the stock is called extrinsic value.Since an option is a depreciating asset, meaning it has a limited life,... Read >
Author: andrewshw221st September 2007
What is an Option?An option is a traded security that is a derivative product.By derivative product we mean that it is a product whose value is based upon or derived from the price of something else. Sincewe are talking about stocks, a stock option is bas... Read >
Author: Bill Johnson01st August 2007
If you have been buying stock options in hopes of achieving spectacular returns, you probably have the odds stacked against you. If you have been struggling to maintain profitability as an option buyer, achieving consistent profitability may be as easy a... Read >
Author: Christopher Smith, B.B.A., J.D.24th July 2007
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The Iron Condor option trading strategy is purely a market neutral strategy. An Iron Condor is constructed using a bull put credit spread together with a bear call credit spread on the same underlying asset to create ... Read >
Author: William Tan02nd July 2007
A call option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to buy a specific security at a specific price by a specific date. It's a way of "locking in" the purchase price of the stock for a period of time.
A put option gives the buyer the right bu... Read >
Author: John W. Roney III01st July 2007
What is an Option?
An option is a traded security that is a derivative product.
By derivative product we mean that it is a product whose value is based upon or derived from the price of something else. Since we are talking about stocks, a stock opti... Read >
Author: John W. Roney III07th October 2006
One of America's billionaires was recently asked the questions, "How do you do it? What is your number one wealth building secret?" Without even one second of hesitation he replied, "find what it is that people need the most, and give it to them."
Reme... Read >
Author: Rodney Brooks
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