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 the price of the underlying shares. Option buyer need to pay a premium when buying [...]
“Are you, nuts?! You want me to risk part of my savings trading options? This whole covered calls idea sounds like just another one of those crazy options strategies that sound great, but don’t deliver in the end.”
My pal was a normally a mild-mannered sort – very reflective, always weighing the consequences rationally before [...]
What is a credit spread?
Investopedia says… “An options strategy where a high premium option is sold and a low premium option is bought on the same underlying security.”
OK I know that is very vague, so lets see if I can do better.
It is a trading strategy in which you buy an out of the money [...]
All stock market multi millionaires must be able to profit under any kind of market conditions. If you are able to profit only when stock markets go up, then you will find it a gargantuan task to ever have any sustainable success, much less become a stock market millionaire.
Yes! It is possible and easy to [...]
A credit spread is a type of vertical spread. It is a trading strategy in which you are buying an option, call or put, at a certain strike price, and simultaneously selling the same type of option at a different strike price of the same month. The sold strike price must have a higher [...]
What is an option strategy? It is implemented through combination of one or more positions and probably a fundamental stock position. First of all, an option is a financial instrument, like stocks or bonds, which gives a buyer the right to purchase a call option or sell a put option an underlying security at a [...]