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Apple Options Trading Idea into Earnings

By Brad Tompkins Since we’ve now entered another earnings reporting season, I thought I’d take the time to layout a nice options cash flow trade. The...

Exposing the VXX: Understanding Volatility Contango and Time Decay

I have been analyzing this market anomaly for some time now and am glad to be able to showcase my findings here on See...

Options Strategies for Earnings Season

By Jeff Wilson In the previous post I talked about supplementing stock positions with options as part of a hedging strategy. In this article, I will...

Supplementing Stock Positions with Options Strategies

By Jeff Wilson After discussing some simple terms and definitions on options here, the next step is to discuss some Options strategies that can be used...

Options Trading Defined

Earnings season is right around the corner. And while I plan on posting an article specifically about trading options and/or stock into binary events...

Options Basics: Using a Call Spread to Fine-Tune Risk/Reward

By Brad Tompkins So far in this series we’ve introduced option fundamentals along with a speculative bullish call trade, explored protective put options as a way...

Options Basics: Writing Covered Calls for Protection and Income

By Brad Tompkins In our last article discussing Trading a Put, we saw how options can be used to protect against losses in a portfolio.  We’ll expand...

Options Basics: Trading a Put

By Brad Tompkins In the previous article discussing Options Basics, we introduced options trading fundamentals and followed a sample Call contract trade. As a quick review, a...

Introduction to Trading Options

Where to Begin Trading Options Have you ever heard about trading options, but didn’t know where to even begin? I’ll give you a quick introduction...

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