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 [...]

Covered Options Trading

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Covered options trading means trading options on stock that you already own. Covered options trading does not provide the leverage that uncovered options trading does but it is typically safer. Investors usually sell options on stock that they already own to increase their profits. Investors buy put on stock [...]

Interest Rate Option Trading

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The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) offers interest rate option trading. CBOE describes interest rate options as “European-style, cash-settled options on the yield of U.S. Treasury securities.” This is one of the kinds of options trading that deals solely in projected interest rates. These options trade in U.S. [...]

Bull Call Spread

As the options trader becomes more familiar with the various kinds of options trading it may be useful to consider an uncovered options trading strategy called a bull call spread. This strategy involves buying and selling call options on the same stock with the same expiration date. This strategy is employed [...]

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 [...]

Covered Call Option

A covered call option is when the owner of stock writes an options contract obligating him or her to sell stock at the contract price, the strike price, at a future date, the expiration date, if the buyer so chooses. The buyer of a call option pays a premium to have the option but not [...]

Developing a Stock Option Trading Strategy

Before leaping into any sort of discussion about the development of a proper or successful stock option trading strategy it helps to first accept one cold, hard fact – you must do the research. Without knowledge about the particular underlying asset you are fundamentally operating while blindfolded, or in other words, you are just guessing.
Naturally, [...]

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 [...]

Options Selling For Traders

Options for traders give an unlimited number of strategies with various levels of risk and return. Sorry to say, some retail traders get stuck in a long option left unaware of the potential flexibility offered by alternative option strategies. Among the popular strategies is options selling. What is it? Options selling is a way where [...]

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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