Options with weekly expirations offer a huge improvement to the learning process for new option traders. You can increase your screen time very rapidly and see how just seven days’ difference might change how two positions react to a move in the markets. When weekly options were first introduced they quickly became a favorite vehicle to trade for many options … Read More
How to Trade In-the-Money Call Options
Go long! No, we don’t mean sending the wide receiver out for a long pass. We’re talking about using the most basic of options trades: initiating a position with a call option instead of buying 100 shares of a stock to create a long position. Options are a great way to take a position in a stock or an index. … Read More
How to Choose an Options Trading Platform
A key consideration in finding the right options broker for you is knowing which features of the broker’s trading platform are important to your options trading strategies. There are some very different approaches to delivering charts and quotes. So some of the questions you should be asking when considering an options trading platform are as follows: 1) What options for … Read More
Another Great Look at an “Income” Trade
After holding a couple of free live webcasts over the past month discussing earnings trades and adjustments, here’s yet another look at an “income” type of trade. This one popped up as a trade yesterday as the VIX starting pushing 15. But the reason for the move up in volatility becomes a two-edged sword.
Options Trading Commissions: Choosing the Best Broker
In our continued discussion about picking a broker for your options trading, one must always consider commissions. As discussed in our previous article, the good news is that rates are more competitive than at any other time. When you are just starting out learning how to trade options there are many brokers to choose from and just as many different … Read More
Options Trading Basics: Choosing an Online Broker
When starting your options trading journey there are many things to consider. One decision that every trader must face is which online broker to use. It is also the most common question that is asked by those searching for the options trading basics. The answer can sometimes be very simple and other times more complex depending on the needs of … Read More
Jared Levy on Bloomberg TV: Buy the Dip
See Options Tribe guest speaker Jared Levy on Bloomberg TV discuss a Vertical Spread trade in Tiffany. Options traders interested in mentoring with Jared, the dates again are June 17 and 24 at 4:30pm EDT. The bonus mentoring sessions and the early bird tuition offer for his new course will be available until this Friday only, be sure to use … Read More
Jared Levy on Fox Business
Jared Levy, who created the options video series “The Vertical Spread Advantage” for SMB Options, appeared recently on Fox Business to discuss “Is Hewlett-Packard Tech’s Comeback Kid?“. Join us on the next Options Tribe Webinar on May 28, 2013 at 5pm ET with Jared Levy of Zacks.com for a great presentation on his unique approach to establishing a directional opinion … Read More