“Top scientists estimate that we’re bombarded with over 400 billion bits of information every second. There is no way we could possibly pay attention to this much information. It would literally drive us insane. In fact, we are only capable of consciously processing approximately 2,000 bits of information. That’s only 0.0000005% (5 ten-millionths of 1 percent) of the world around us. This means that we … Read More
Free Options Webinar: Craig Hilsenrath of Optionworkbench.com: Improving Options Portfolio Returns Using Probabilities and Statistics
Tuesday January 7, 2014 at 5pm ET Each Tuesday, SMB hosts an Options Tribe meeting where veteran traders and experts in the world of options trading share live presentations. This meeting is free to the public on the first Tuesday of each month. All other meetings require an annual membership to OptionsTribe.com. To register or join, please use the invitation … Read More
Options Webinar: Casey Platt: Gamma Scalping
Today at 5pm ET Each Tuesday, SMB hosts an Options Tribe meeting where veteran traders and experts in the world of options trading share live presentations. This meeting is free to the public on the first Tuesday of each month. All other meetings require an annual membership to OptionsTribe.com. To register or join, please use the invitation link below. SMB’s … Read More
Demystifying Options Contracts: Understanding Strike Prices
One of the basic concepts of trading options is the “strike price” of the option. For call options, the strike price is the price at which you have the right to buy the asset before expiration, and for put options the strike price represents the price at which you have the right to sell the asset at expiration. As the … Read More
Mastering Options Trading for Income: Unveiling the Credit Spread and Iron Condors
When people first get interested in options-income selling strategies they usually start by learning how to sell credit spreads or iron condors. Let’s discuss these two strategies and why they might be attractive to options traders. If you have traded stocks or even simply invested in stocks, you know that you make money only if the stock goes up, assuming … Read More
Put Options Basics: How to Protect a Position or Earn a Profit If a Stock Price Declines
What is a put option? A put option gives the purchaser the right but not the obligation to sell 100 shares of the underlying stock for a set price, the strike price of the option. This is true except at expiration, when a “long-in-the-money put option” is automatically exercised by the Options Clearing Corporation unless you instruct your broker not … Read More
Beginner’s Guide to Call Options: How They Work and What Happens after You Buy
What is a call option? A single call stock option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation (except at expiration) to purchase 100 shares of the underlying stock for a set price (the strike price). Some options can’t be settled with the purchase of the underlying like an index (you can’t buy an index!), in which case the … Read More
Where is This Stock Going?
One of the truest things I’ve heard recently was “It’s SOOOO nice not having to pick which way the stock is going!” That came from a one-on-one coaching student of mine that had fallen into the trap of over-analyzing charts and looking for “that one right” indicator. Not having to pick a direction had taken a huge burden off her … Read More