Options Investing
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Free Options Trading Tools and Sites
Trading stock options is all about timing. Even a few hours can equal a missed opportunity. These amazing little free tools will speed things up.
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Bull Call Spread Trading
Wouldn't it be great to cheaply invest in stocks with low downside risk and a healthy upside gain? The bull call spread does just that. Here's how...
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A Winning Stock Options Strategy
This options strategy will allow investors to legally profit from insider trading. What is it?
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Pricing Stock Options
An option will fall into any of the three categories: In-the -Money, Out-Of -The-Money, and At-The-Money.
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How To Trade Stock Options
Purchasing stock options is a simple trading strategy for increasing leverage. What are stock options? Are they too risky for sound investing?
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Stock Option Strangles
A Strangle is an options strategy that is similar in purpose to the options Straddle. Both are betting on volatility of the underlying stock to generate income.
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Selling and Buying Covered Put Options
Selling a covered put option is much less risky that selling an uncovered one, while buying covered puts are an effective way to protect a stock position.
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Trading Covered and Uncovered Call Options
Trading call options can be an effective way of generating income, but to do so, an investor needs to know the risks and benefits of covered and uncovered call positions.
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Stock Option Straddles
Most investors hope stocks go higher, the short -sellers want stocks to decline, and some don't care which way they go.
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Trading Options in Oil and Energy Markets
Trading options in the oil and energy markets with these indicators can expose commodity traders to profit potential while shielding a trader from uncontrolled loses.
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A Primer on Stock Options
Options are attractive since they allow an investor to control a relatively large amount of stock for a small initial investment.
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Selling Uncovered Call Options
Investors are trading options at record levels these days. Volume on the seven options exchanges exceeded 2.4 billion contracts in the first eight months of this year.
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Using Options in Retirement Investing
Options trading can help grow a retirement portfolio by producing high gains while limiting risk. Avoiding modest risk while investing can limit gains below inflation.
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What is a Covered Call Option Trade?
Though there's no such thing as risk-free investing, investors can tip the risk-versus-reward scale in their favor by writing covered calls on stocks they already own.
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Four Critical Steps for Options Trading
Trading options in stocks or commodities with this method can produce 200%+ profits in less than two weeks, and often much more. Best of all, risk of loss is limited.
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Review of TradeKing's Stock Trading Platform
A wide variety of stock screeners, option calculators, market research, and technical analysis tools await investors with online brokerage firm TradeKing.
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Protect Your Portfolio and Make Money
Forget the gourmet option strategies that are offered by so many trading education places. Anyone can learn about basic option strategies and protect their portfolio.
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The Web's Best Free Option Trading Calculators
Don't just guess about option price projections based on Greeks like delta and theta. Proper use of these free calculators can help you maximize your trading profits.
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Using the Greek 'Theta' in Option Trading
Not only do option traders have to predict a stock's direction, they have to beat the clock too. Wise traders learn how to minimize this time-decay known as 'theta'.
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Using the Greek 'Delta' in Option Trading
Not all stock options behave the same. Delta is a measure of how much (or how little) a particular option changes relative to the price of the underlying stock or index.
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Option Greeks for Beginners
New equity option traders should familiarize themselves with 'the greeks' - like theta and delta - to maximize their potential trading gains.
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Influences on a Stock Option's Value
As with anything related to capital markets, sometimes a stock option is priced at what it's worth, and sometimes not. Some basic math can show a trader their true cost.
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How to Start Trading Stock Options
Trading stock options may be intimidating for newcomers, but getting started may be easier than they expect. As with all new things, the key is learning the basics first.
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Out-of-the-Money Option Trading
A review of the risks and rewards of buying naked out-of-the-money options.
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In-the-Money Stock Option Trading
A review of the risks and rewards of stock option investing, focusing on in-the-money calls and puts.
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