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The Options Whiz? How About Investor Beware
Profile of a new Iron Condor trader that now wants to make a living managing other people’s money.
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 MoreFree Tool For Finding Trades
Free Tool for the Online Trader In this video, I show you a tool that I use to sometimes help me find stock option trades. This free website can literally give you hundreds of trading ideas no matter what kind of trader you are. Understanding Options Trading Better Although options selling have a reputation…
Read MoreOption Investing: How To Invest For Retirement
Option Investing for Retirement Here is a pretty good video of a segment done by Jim Cramer in which he talks about what to invest in inside your retirement accounts. If you are into buying and selling options, now it is possible to sell options inside your IRA and many people do. I do not…
Read MoreStock Option Trading: These Stocks Go Higher
Stock option trading for retirement If you’re into stock option trading, there is a lot of volatility in the markets these last couple weeks. The DOW is up 100 points then down 124 the next. Then up again, then down. But overall the short term trend has been down. But there is a sector that…
Read MoreWeekly Options Credit Spread Horror Story
Option Credit spreads are a very simple trade. You sell one option, buy another for protection and hope that your sold option is not in the money on expiration day. In other words you sell the 100 put and hope the stock stays above 100. Or sell the 150 Call and hope the stock stays…
Read MoreOnline Options Trading: What LVS did
Online Options Trading: What LVS did It’s been a couple days since I asked the question, “What will LVS do?” From what I can tell, LVS hit the resistance, and fell back into the channel. Why? Well fundamentalists will tell you it is because LVS missed on earnings. Actually their earnings were pretty good but…
Read MoreOptions Investing: Successful Trading Habits
Options Investing: Successful Habits of a Trader 1) Follow the Rule of 3: I will not enter a trade unless I have 3 reasons from my list of indicators for doing so. 2) We keep our losses small 3) We adjust targets and stops at the end of the day 4) We try to keep…
Read MoreAutotrade Options With OptionsXpress
Good news! Autotrade Options With OptionsXpress! OptionGenius.com has just reached an autotrade agreement with the broker OptionsXpress. We are already autotrading with eoption.com but adding a second broker to the mix gives members more options (Pun intended). Many of you probably already have accounts at OptionsXpress. I’ve written about options autotrading before but in case…
Read MoreHow Does Stock Option Assignment Work?
Stock Option Assignment By strict definition, this term basically means the transfer of a person’s rights to another person or business. In terms of stock options, it refers to a notice given to an option writer that states the option (that was sold to a buyer) has officially been exercised. Exercised as in executed, not…
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