sing credit spreads is a good way to make a consistent income using options without taking too much risk. However very few non-professional investors know how to use it and believe it to be too complicated. This article shows you how to write credit spreads.
The first thing you want to do is check the [...]
If you are like most people, in these times of economic uncertainty you are looking for a way to earn extra money, that doesn’t take a lot of time, preferably from home and that doesn’t require a lot of capital to get started. If you fall into this category then options trading might be just [...]
The only explanation which would seem acceptable is no one has shown you how to perform this marvel of printing money before, so you are a bit unsure of how to go about doing so!If this is your situation, then you are excused…But if not, you are truly missing out. Even if you are in [...]
The only explanation which would seem acceptable is no one has shown you how to perform this marvel of printing money before, so you are a bit unsure of how to go about doing so!If this is your situation, then you are excused…But if not, you are truly missing out. Even if you are in [...]
Before we can begin to trade in options, we need to understand the basic terminology of these sophisticated financial instruments so that we can start to interpret the mass of figures which appear, when an option chain appears on the screen.
Each option has a so called strike price. This is the price at which the [...]
Welcome to the wonderful world of equity options. You may have heard that option trading is high risk, and indeed it is, for much the same reasons that spread betting is high risk. The instruments themselves are derivatives from the cash markets, and are highly geared, but options themselves were originally introduced to the US [...]
In today’s chaotic stock market, the ability to make a profit trading long Option positions (Puts and Calls) depends on being able to capitalize on short-term moves in the price of a stock or index. Stocks are up one day, and down the next – and it’s anybody’s guess as to what the long-term outlook [...]