By option trader in
Other Stuff, Technical Analysis on
February 17th, 2009
Within any market environment, the unexpected price movements create opportunity. The most important of these opportunities is a learning opportunity.
When you are wrong in your forward planning based on your assumptions of the market trends and pattern analysis, you have the opportunity to do a revision of your trades and see exactly where you went […]
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By option trader in
Options Strategy on
November 2nd, 2008
With the advent of all this market volitility , there has never been a better time to get into options trading. Look Here ! Click Here! Those who understand the way options work would be using two or three main strategies to make some […]
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By option trader in
Options Trading on
July 15th, 2008
Implied volatility yields a theoretical value for the option equal to the current market price. Simple, yes? Well actually, not really. Implied volatility is just that implied. Its not factual, not real, not “right on the money” or correct beyond reasonable doubt.
Its really just a calculation based on what should be. A lot of “ifs”, […]
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By option trader in
Options Strategy on
May 20th, 2008
When you look at purchasing your options beware of the price difference between the buy and sell prices. Often is this is a wide spread, it is indicating that there is very little interest on either side of the market. As the gap widens between rthe two, your profits will decrease.
Look for narrow spreads, and […]
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By option trader in
Options Strategy on
May 13th, 2008
When vertical spreads are mentioned, they quite often come with monikers such as bull” and “bear”. This lends most to think of vertical spreads as directional plays which is true. However, vertical spreads can be used to take advantage of two other potential trading opportunities – time decay and volatility movement.
If you are looking for […]
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By option trader in
Technical Analysis on
February 20th, 2008
Be aware of the following when looking at stocks to place options over
A market professional may want to accumulate a large position in a stock that is trending strongly; either for his own account or for a major client. How does he/she do this? If he starts placing buy orders in the pool, he will […]
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