Trading Weekly Options

Trading weekly options offers the trader a variety of short term stock and index opportunities. As of September 21, 2011 the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) lists 81 stocks and funds available for trading weekly options. These include thirty different classes of options including indexes. Weekly options are listed on Thursdays and expire on Friday [...]

Copper and Oil Options

Copper and oil options are a useful indicator for the direction of the economy. The other day stocks fell amid concern about the ability of Greece and the European Union in general to set the necessary conditions for a bailout of Greece before the country defaults on its debts. While stocks went down more investors [...]

Newspaper Stock Options

The recent buzz about the Washington Post - WPO - becoming profitable brings to mind the subject of newspaper stock options. How to trade stock options on newspapers is really no different than trading options on other stocks. It simply requires a close look at company fundamentals and, often, a closer look at the technicals of stock [...]

Forex Options Trading

Forex options trading uses the same principles and tactics as stock options trading and commodity options trading. Forex options trading is the use of options in trading foreign currencies. In using options to trade foreign currencies traders enjoy the same benefits of options trading that they enjoy when trading other equities. Because traders only invest [...]