Buying Puts on the Financial Select Sector SPDR

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Buying puts on the financial select sector SPDR multiplied recently as the government entered into consideration of new regulations. Puts to sell outnumbered calls to buy by roughly twenty to one as the SPDR fund price fell nearly two percent, to just above $14 a share. The huge difference has arisen as congress [...]

Trading Steel Options

There is opportunity in steel price volatility. North American steel producers are pressuring officials in Canada, Mexico, and the USA to put pressure on China to revalue the Yuan. Their goal is a “large and sustained appreciation” of the Chinese currency. A more expensive Yuan would drive up the price of [...]

Trading Gold Options

As the price of gold overtakes the dollar’s rise, trading gold options could be a good idea. In tough economic times there tends to be a flight to the dollar and a flight to gold when other currencies appear threatened. Part of the recent rise in the value of gold was masked [...]

Crisis Options Trading

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Crisis options trading is emerging as European debt worries continue and investors ignore promising US job data. In times of great volatility and brewing crisis options traders tend to use strategies such as a long straddle where they buy both a call and a put on the [...]

Options Trading CBOE

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After 37 years as a private member owned organization the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is filing an initial public offering for up to $300 million. CBOE was the world’s first marketplace for options. Founded in 1973 CBOE’s daily trading volume has reached to over a [...]

Uncovered Options Trading

Uncovered options trading can be risky, compared to writing a covered call option. On the other hand uncovered options trading can be very profitable. Because of the high margin requirements uncovered or “naked” options trading is usually considered the province of institutional investors. Statistically it is more profitable to sell [...]

How to Trade the Forex Market Using Binary Options

It is no secret that the Forex market can be a very profitable place to be if you want to make money by trading currencies.
However, it is also no secret that achieving consistency within the Forex market requires a lot of preparation (you need education and reliable trading tools) because not only you need to [...]

Learn Option Trading the Right Way

Once thought to be the sole domain of the highly skilled, professional investors and traders, today more and more private investors and traders are entering the options market. For those who learn option trading the right way and have the correct mindset options trading can become their main source of income.
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Sound Strategies for Options Trading

Although there are many recognized strategies for options trading they are not of value if they don’t guarantee some basic results. For example, options trading was first implemented as a means of helping investors to find some new ways to hedge investments or manage risk in their portfolios. This means that it is an approach [...]

Understanding an Options Trading Strategy

Do you know what an options trading strategy is? If you work with a broker and have an investment portfolio then you may want to take some time to understand this concept. Just like the rest of the financial market, the options trading industry requires the investor to have an understanding of current conditions, the [...]

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