Options Trading
Using Currency Options To Increase Your Odds
Last week I told you I’d cover additional strategies for hedging your portfolio. While there’s a lot of ways we can protect your investments, this week I want to take you on a slightly different route… and focus on options. There’s no question, options allow you to trade with the odds in your favor. And […]
Stock Option Trading Will Drive Growth At Charles Schwab
Talk to Chuck… It’s Charles Schwab’s (SCHW) award winning advertising campaign. If you spend any time watching market news or golf, you’ve undoubtedly seen (or more likely memorized) this ad slogan by now. I have to admit I like the commercials. The commercials are shot using a unique rotoscoping animation technique. Each ad is filmed […]
Options Trading: How To Generate Gains Of 550% Trading Options
Christmas is here. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. (Channeling my inner Andy Williams…) According to the National Retail Federation, one of their “Top Ten Holiday Trends for 2010” is giving gifts to… yourself?!? That’s right, self-gifting is projected to increase 8% this year. More than 57% of gift buyers will splurge on […]
Rare Earth Metals: Investing With Call Options
According to the General Administration of Customs, China’s Rare Earth Elements (REEs) exports dropped 77% in October. Clearly a 77% drop in exports from a country is a shock to any commodity. But when you consider China produces 97% of the world’s supply of Rare Earth Elements… this is an atomic bomb sized shock. You […]
How To Cash In On Oil Using Options
There’s a great opportunity in oil right now, but you may not realize it. With the media focusing on the BP oil spill and the scary economic conditions, it might not be obvious. Oil prices are undervalued and there’s money to be made off of the market’s mispricing. Take a look at the PowerShares DB […]
The Secret To Trading The VIX
Everyone thinks professional traders have these great secrets to trading – silver bullets guaranteeing profits. It turns out there’s really nothing secret about being a good trader. Discipline, timing, research – these are things anyone can do with time and effort. But there’s at least one exception to the rule, the VIX. Professional traders don’t […]
New Traders Must Read This…
It happened again. And it pains me every time I see one of these… I received an email from David H. who’s mad as hell. You see, he “sunk his life savings into” a single option trade. The trade didn’t work out as planned. Now he’s wiped out. Don’t let this happen to you. I’ll […]
A Simple Key To Stock Options Gains Of 306% And 122%
Trading stock options is the best way I know to quickly make large sums of money. So today I’m giving you a key to successful option trading. I use this key time and time again. It’s one of my guiding principles. And it serves me well as editor of Elite Option Trader. You see, Elite […]
An Advanced Options Trade
Many of our readers focus on trading stocks and ETFs in the market. While you could spend a lifetime learning about and perfecting trading strategies on these securities, others expand their horizons. There are a number of other trading opportunities available for investors willing to put in the work and learn about new strategies. Take […]
84% Of Investors Are Doing It… Are You?
I just heard an amazing statistic. According to one major brokerage firm (who will remain nameless), 84% of their active traders are using a simple strategy to make money in the markets. It’s a strategy that works best when markets are trading flat or slightly up. The strategy isn’t complex… and today I’m going to […]
