Binary Options have become very popular in recent years and if you ever visit a finance site online then you have probably seen ads for binary options all over the place. When I was putting together information for this article, I had a very hard time finding any “real” website about binary options that wasn’t …
Weekly options are an exciting addition to the financial markets in recent years and can provide a lot of trading choices for active investors. If you are new to options, then understand that options can: Protect your investments against a decline in market price. Allow you to buy investments at a lower price . Increase …
Learn Options Trading Below is the growing list of posts that provide an introduction to options and how to get going in trade options. Disclosure: Before trading options you will need to be approved for options by your broker. Your broker will require you to read the Chicago Board of Options Risk Pamphlet, which you …
Weekly Options Credit Spread Weekly options credit spread strategy is one of the most popular option trade strategies with weekly options. For those that are new to options, a credit spread is where you sell one option that is closer to the current market price and buy an offsetting option at a farther out of …
Weekly options iron condor trade is a type of options trade strategy that combines a put credit spread with a call credit spread. This is a popular strategy for monthly index options or with non-trending stock as you don’t want to enter iron condors on volatile stocks. Weekly options credit spread trade is the most …
If you have traded options before then you are probably already familiar with options Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega). These “Greeks” are how investors evaluate various options and how many professionals managing their options portfolios. One of the most popular Greeks is “Delta”, which we will discuss in this post. Understanding Options Delta Delta measures …
I have received the question of “What Options Trading Strategies Work ?”. To be honest there is no exact answer to this question. Let me explain. Most traders understand that the market is a zero sum game so there is a winner and a loser, but with options you have the ability to make money …
Can You Day Trade Options ? The answer is, yes and no. First of all options fall into the day trading “Pattern trader” rules so you need to have $25,000 in your account to not trigger the day trading restrictions. (That is one of the reasons why many small investors use futures for day trading …
In the last post of this “Learning Options Trading” series, we discussed Options Trading Strategies that you could implement in your trading. The difficult thing is that there are lots of options strategies and it can be a little difficult to figure out how to actually get started. There are all kinds of stock and …
Many people new to options get a little overwhelmed by all the strategies and usually have a hard time trying to find the best options trading strategy. Honestly, there is no “Best” strategy but there are definitely specific strategies for different types of trading and usually the best suggestion is to start slow with the …
