Market Masters: How To Manage An Iron Condor Trade
For many professional option traders, iron condors form the basis of how they generate monthly income. Iron condors are a strategy that allows you...
Market Masters: Ten Common Options Trading Pitfalls To Avoid
Too many new traders see stock options as lottery tickets, chips in a casino, or a path to getting rich quick. They are not....
Options Trading Education: The Year In Review
This year in the stock market has been all about The Great Rally of 2013. It’s been seemingly unstoppable with no meaningful corrections or...
Options Education: The Basics of Exercise and Assignment
Every now again I think it fitting and proper to review some of the basic elements in options working method. Today I am going...
Options Strategies For A Broken Stock Trade
Sometimes bad things happen to good stocks. And when this happens, good stock trades can quickly become broken stock trades. Just like a rising...
Using a VIX Call Spread as a Downside Hedge
I would like to discuss today another way to hedge your equity portfolio against a major move lower, albeit perhaps indirectly. And we can...
Options Education: The Butterfly Options Strategy
One of the more difficult aspects of writing a column such as this one is that I have little or no idea of the...
My Twist on the Cash Covered Put Strategy
Hello, I’m back after my two week hiatus. For those curious about an amazing bike journey my wife and I made from Amsterdam to...
Options Trading Education: Define Your Risk
Unless one is a professional options trader, their options trading setups should include well-defined risk. I do not advise being naked options short, even net...
Trading Options In Three Dimensions
“It is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens”...
