Free Trades
Glimpse of Genius Trade for January 2014 – FDX
So far the Glimpse of Genius trades are doing very well. Last month’s trade expired worthless for the full profit. This one is using the same strategy as last month – the credit spread. The trade is on FDX which is Fedex. There are 30 days to expiration. The Trade: Sell Feb 135 Puts Buy…
Read More(Credit Spread) Glimpse Trade: 12/16/13: AMZN
AMZN: Credit Spread This is a simple credit spread using PUTS on Amazon.com. By using Puts that means the trade is bullish to neutral. What I want is for the stock to stay above the short strike. As long as it does that the trade will make money. If you look at a chart of…
Read More(Options Selling) Glimpse trade: QQQ
11/14/2013 This trade is fairly simple. It is called a credit spread and it is being done on the Nasdaq 100 ETF. Symbol: QQQ Sell to Open Dec 80 Puts (.38) Buy to Open Dec 79 Puts (.28) for a credit of .10 If you do one contract of this trade the maximum you can…
Read More(Stock Option Analysis) Is This A Good Trade?
Online Option Trade Analysis Got an email question today about a potential trade. Actually the email says he already made the trade. Let’s take a look and see if it makes sense. Email: “I’m looking at one of the companies Xpound has covered: AKS. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AKS&m=2013-07-20 If I bought 100 shares of this company at $3.35…
Read MoreCREE Option Trade
Option Trading: I got this email today asking for a trade: “Allen, Would you consider offering me ONE BEST OPTION STRATEGY IDEA regarding CREE ? I suppose some form of spread is what I am thinking of. If you provide one ‘reasonably good results’ strategy , protecting principal, then I will sign up with you.…
Read More(Options Trade Analysis) Free Trade: 03/7/2013
I was getting bored today so i decided to go looking for a fun, weekly trade to make things interesting. This is the trade I put on in MCD. Option Trades Analysis Why this trade? Well I own MCD stock and I have been waiting for the stock to increase along with…
Read More2 More Fresh Option Trades
This blog is about trading, so what better to post about than 2 new option trades that I just entered. The first is simple one, a credit spread, and the second is a Calendar. At first I only wanted to talk about the calendar, but as I started making the video I showed the credit…
Read MoreStock Option Strategies – 4 Strategies You Can Trade
What is option trading? New to option trading? Not sure what the difference is between a butterfly, a condor, or a mouse? (Hint: there is no strategy called “mouse”) In this video I open up one of my personal trading accounts to show you 4 trades that are all of a different strategy. We have…
Read MoreMCD and JNJ Butterfly Spread Trade Adjustments
Butterfly Spread Option Trading Update Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you have a wonderful, happy, and well rested holiday! Here is an update of the MCD and JNJ butterfly option trades I showed you in my last video. Had to make an adjustment to each because of the strong down move in the market which also affected…
Read More2 Butterfly Option Trades
Butterfly Option Spread Trading This is a video of myself looking for some option trades using one of my real money accounts. These trades are for example only and I may exit or change them at any time without telling anyone. This is a sample of the types of videos that are produced for Option…
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