Trading Options on Starbucks

As the 40 year old company continues to beat earnings estimates trading options on Starbucks – SBUX – can offer traders a degree of assurance. With options, traders can position themselves so that they will not miss out on continuing stock gains and not be stung by an often predicted but not yet seen slump. [...]

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 [...]

Puts on Oil

Puts on oil outnumbered calls recently as options traders anticipated a fall in oil prices. As those engaged in Euro options trading are aware, industrial production in Europe, China and North America, is down. As industrial production falls so does oil consumption. Options traders use puts on oil in order to leverage their investments [...]

Commodity Options

Commodity traders use commodity options to reduce investment risk and secure the opportunity to buy or sell a commodity at the current price, no matter which direction the commodities market moves. When trading commodity futures one can buy options on agricultural products, forest products, precious metals, financial instruments, or environmental credits. In doing so the [...]

Successful Options Trading Strategy

Successful options trading requires a strategy. What are the components of a successful options trading strategy? The Yen appears to be in trouble after the Bank of Japan Governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, spoke in a Wall Street Journal interview about disruptions in Japanese industrial production. Developing a successful options trading strategy for the Yen will require [...]

Options Trading Education

A reliable route to profits in options trading is with options trading education. Options trading education starts with basics and can progress to sophisticated options trading strategies. However, successful options trading always relies upon an honest review of trading results and life long options trading education. Options can be traded on stocks, commodities, and futures. [...]

A Basic Options Trading Education

Are you interested in learning a bit about options trading? It is not exactly an old-fashioned approach to investing, but it isn’t entirely modern either. It began in the early 1970s when the Chicago Board Options Exchange began to publicly list options for investment. Until that time investors had only stocks, commodities, and bonds in [...]