There are people that believe stock options are dangerous, risky, and are to be avoided in place of safer shares of stock. They know it is possible to lose your entire account trading options. If you are selling options short then it is even possible to lose more than your account is worth if you use […]
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The key to managing risk in options while trading them in place of stocks is to roll them over when you have nice profits and would like to stay in a trending stock. If you buy a SPY ETF call option contract with a $200 strike price for $300 when SPY is trading at $203 and the ETF runs
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How can an option trader enter into a position, risk only $500 of their total trading capital but control $50,000 worth if stock? The numbers will vary greatly depending on the option pricing factors of intrinsic value and the Greeks but the point here is that it is possible to control a large dollar value of shares with a small outlay of cash. You
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If the markets can have a nice summer rally from here my two long picks are Apple & Google. Apple has just completed a nice “cup with handle pattern” and set up to break out at $620, if it breaks through the near term resistance we could see a quick
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If one of the greatest traders in history told you how to buy and sell the best stocks for the most profits would you listen? Well we have a chance to do just that with William J. O’Neil’s book “How to Make Money in Stocks”. His lifetime of research on the precise fundamental and
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As a stock trader have you ever wished there was a way for you to bet on a huge in either direction?Then he thought about the option strategy Optionz Traderz had used in the past. Their is an option strategy that allows you to do just that; they are called long Strangles and Straddles. It is possible to
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You can read trading books until you are red-eyed and suffering from information overload. You can spend thousands of dollars on trading seminars, and you can waste a lot of time trying to get successful traders to give you the secret sauce. But in the end, it is simply you versus the markets. You
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In my reading of over 250 trading books and my endless web surfing I have come across many quotes from rich traders that I have truly liked and they have made me profitable in the markets. Here are my favorite ten that I not only love but have made huge impacts
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Great shorts are stocks that are over valued with huge price to earnings ratios hoping for huge sales and earnings growth in the future. The best shorts have 50, 75, and sometimes even 100 P/E ratios. When they fail to make their earnings and their growth declines their stock
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One of the ways I coach myself each day before trading begins is to say to myself “Don’t do anything stupid”. When I quit doing stupid things that is when I started being consistently profitable year after year. You can do all your homework for trading, you can write your
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