Archive for December 2009

Option Spreads Made Easy (2005)

The popular “The Options Course” author presents his proven techniques in a viewer-friendly, 90 min. video workshop that shows how to expand profit opportunities and manage risk with options. George makes spreading strategies understandable and easy to implement. His thorough coverage includes an overview of equity options. Using the basic bull call spread [...]

Make Money With Forex and Share Trading

Draw downs are part of trading; it’s volatile markets that make FOREX trading fun and highly profitable.
The big moves in FOREX trading, with the best risk to reward, come a few times a year, and you should trade infrequently.
IN FOREX trading the way to make money fast, is to understand the power of compound growth. [...]

The Truth About Most Option Trading Seminars

Are you about to pay thousands of US Dollars to attend an option trading seminar this weekend?
Whether or not you have decided to join that weekend seminar, I hope I can help you make a more intelligent decision here.
A Grim Experience At An Option Trading Seminar
I had a friend who joined a weekend, 2 days, [...]

Stock Trading for Bold Brave Investors

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 [...]

Stock Options – the Greatest Wealth Building Tool Ever Invented

It is a well known fact that serious investors seeking long term growth of capital have as their main objectives the two most basic goals in investing:
• to find an investment vehicle that would effectively preserve capital and minimize risk in the face of a fluctuating and constantly flexing economy
• the investment vehicle [...]

Paper Trading Credit Spread and Iron Condor Option Trades

Paper trading using one of the many virtual trading systems provided by option brokers, and now CBOE, is so important if you have never traded options. This is especially important trading credit spreads, like Bull Puts and Bear Calls and ultimately Iron Condors. These are special strategy trades that must that must be fully understood [...]

OOption Theory and Trading: A Step-by-Step Guide To Control Risk and Generate Profits (Wiley Trading) (Kindle Edition)

An accessible guide to understanding and using options Leading options educator Ron Ianieri has created a tried-and-true options training program drawing on his years of experience training new traders. The goal of Option Theory and Trading is to give readers the knowledge to select the optimal strategy for a given situation and to [...]

What Are we Trying to Achieve When Trading? Part 2

To truly get an accurate picture of a comparison between the likelihood of success for two different strategies, we must use a real life example, and compare ‘apples to apples’. We are going to do that here with two strategies: That is, we will compare selling ‘at the money’ Put options (spreads) with buying ‘at [...]

How Option Trading Profit In Any Market Conditions

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 [...]

Options Trading in Extremely Volatile Markets

The recent stock market crisis (2008) not only rocked the financial system and the world economy but also the pockets of countless options traders all over the world. Options traders who used to profit in the years prior to this market crisis broke their bank as none of their options strategies seem to work in [...]