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Top Five Reasons To Be An Options Trader

| July 13, 2021
Top Five Reasons To Be An Options Trader

NUMBER 5 – ABILITY TO TRADE BOTH SIDES OF THE MARKET  You can trade the market up and trade the market down.  Most traders who buy stock don’t know how to trade the market to the downside.  With Options, it is easy.  You just buy a put option, and with the power of leverage, you can get into […]

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Is There Still Time To Be Bullish On Bonds?

| June 17, 2021
Is There Still Time To Be Bullish On Bonds?

As low as interest rates have been lately, it doesn’t seem to have diminished investors’ appetite for government bonds.  A yield under 1.50% for 10-year Treasury notes is not a detriment, apparently, when the rest of the developed world is also in an ultra-low rate cycle. Bond investors may have assumed the looming threat of […]

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You Should Never Trade Options If You Don’t Know This…

| May 27, 2021
You Should Never Trade Options If You Don’t Know This…

Have you ever heard someone say “90% of people that trade options lose money.”? I certainly have. Looking at an options chain can be a dizzying exercise for the uninformed. Delta, Gamma, Theta, Rho, Vega – and let’s not forget – implied volatility? Single, spread, butterfly, condor. What does it all mean? SO WHAT IS […]

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Five Key Indicators For Landing Top Profits

| January 21, 2021
Five Key Indicators For Landing Top Profits

I make stock and options recommendations based on what the charts—not the talking heads and suit-and-ties on financial TV networks—tell me. I spend many hours every week analyzing stock charts, support and resistance levels, moving averages, and numerous other technical indicators of the major indices and stocks to ensure that I’m bringing you recommendations that […]

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Validation Of Using Easy Covered Call Strategies

| December 3, 2020
Validation Of Using Easy Covered Call Strategies

I often refer to covered calls as the third leg of a balanced, income-focused investment approach. (Three legs because it takes at least that many to make any chair or table stable and functional—the others are cash flow with high-yield stocks like in the Dividend Hunter and stocks consistently growing dividends like those in my […]

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The Pros And Cons Of Buying Weekly Options

| September 17, 2020 | 0 Comments
The Pros And Cons Of Buying Weekly Options

One of the aspects I love about running the Options360 service is the member interactions I receive through live webinars and their ability to email me directly.  Members have the ability to ask me about specific positions and strategies, or general concepts. A recent question came from Agnes, who asked what the pros and cons of weekly […]

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Revealed: How Stock Splits Help Options Traders

| August 20, 2020 | 0 Comments
Revealed: How Stock Splits Help Options Traders

Stock splits re-entered the trading lexicon and grabbed the headlines when “Apple (AAPL),” and then “Tesla (TSLA),” announced they would be conducting a 4-for-1 and 5-for-1 stock split, respectively. Following the announcements, shares of each are up 18% for AAPL, and TSLA has zoomed up 40% in just six days. You couldn’t ask for two better […]

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Options Trading: Understanding Put-Call Parity

| June 18, 2020 | 0 Comments
Options Trading: Understanding Put-Call Parity

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me they love covered calls for their conservative income generation, but would never sell a naked put because that’s too risky, I could retire from trading. The fact is a covered call is exactly the same, in terms of both risk and reward, of selling a […]

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Using A Stock Replacement Strategy To Reduce Risk Without Limiting Upside

| May 7, 2020 | 0 Comments
Using A Stock Replacement Strategy To Reduce Risk Without Limiting Upside

The last time we discussed using a stock replacement strategy was back in February when the “SPDR 500 (SPY)” was hitting an all-time high.  With nothing but clear skies, no visible ‘overhead’ on the charts, and an economy seemingly firing on all cylinders, investors might have rightly viewed advice to temper their bullishness with skepticism. […]

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Why It’s Not Too Late To Protect Your Portfolio

| April 7, 2020 | 0 Comments
Why It’s Not Too Late To Protect Your Portfolio

A few years ago there was an Interactive Broker (IBKR) commercial that used to run with frequency showing a woman arriving late for dinner saying, “Sorry, the market’s a mess, it’s down 2% and everyone’s selling, I needed to get some hedges on.” Can you imagine a 2% decline inducing a rush to hedge?  What […]

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