Stock trading is one of the last true meritocracies. All that matters for your investment success are your own decisions. Stock trading is a precision-based activity and one tiny mistake in judgment could send you plummeting right to the bottom and result in a huge loss.
Likewise, the opposite could happen. You may make a great [...]
This week is week number seven in this ten week series on stock options trading. Key number seven is to always trade with the trend. Let’s discuss that.
As my first mentor, Dr. Stephen Cooper, says ?The trend is your friend?. Generally, when the overall market trend is upwards then trade calls, when the overall market [...]
In this article I want to describe the basics of options: what they are and how one can trade them.
Options trading is extremely popular and provides far greater possible returns than does trading in the underlying stocks. But it also carries more risk.
So it is extremely important to understand how options work as financial instruments [...]
Real time stock options trading isn’t for everyone, as you’ll literally need to be able to monitor the markets in real time. If you can do that though, it can be one of the most profitable methods of trading as you can respond instantly to the price fluctuations through the day. Read on for our [...]
Options are riskier to trade than stocks. That’s fairly well known. And we’ll get into why.
Since options have an expiry date the investor has to make a choice within a relatively short time frame. This adds risk and complexity to the trading scenario.
Also, since options are derivatives, they have no inherent worth. Their value is [...]
Welcome back, this week in part four of my ten part series on how to successfully trade stock options I will discuss how to enter the trade at the right. Obviously this is one of the most important aspects of trading, no matter if you are trading stocks, options or any other financial instrument.
This, however, [...]
If you’ve been trading stocks for some time and have never tried options, then you may want to give them a go. Stock options are more speculative but offer flexibility, diversification and control to protect your stock portfolio or create more investment income. So, here are some things you should know about options.
An option [...]
Trading stock options are very popular now. It is much easier to trade stop options now then before. Instead of buying a stock outright, you can enter into an options contract, which can be cheaper but have the same or even better results. To learn the basis of trading is not hard to learn but [...]
As you know, when it concerns investing money in the stock market, or any other sort of exchange, there’s always going to be a reasonable measure of risk involved. You could make an immense amount of money and retire, or you could turn a loss and lose your shirt with a poor decision.
In the [...]
When it comes to options trading, most people have been mystified by what seems like a lot of mumbo jumbo. This article will explain the investment terminology for Call Option in everyday terms that anyone can understand and appreciate.
To illustrate the concepts, let’s go on a shopping trip.
You’ve been thinking about buying a [...]