Netflix Options

How should a trader trade Netflix options today? Netflix – NFLX – was trading at $17 a share in mid-2007 and peaked at nearly $300 a share in July of 2011. Since that time it has fallen precipitously to the $120 a share range. What the heck happened and what is going to happen next? [...]

VIX Related Stock Gains

Forecasters have been talking of late about VIX related stock gains. The Chicago Board Exchange Market Volatility Index (VIX) has risen to historic highs in response to the ongoing drama of the European debt crisis. The VIX is a measure of market volatility. It is a reflection of the options market’s expectation of movement of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bank Stock Options

Bank stock options trading can be profitable in times when stocks like Bank of America have lost a third of their value in the last year. The mortgage crisis still looms like a specter of doom over many US banks, including the largest, as many experts predict another wave of mortgage foreclosures. If, indeed, the [...]

Oil Futures Options

Crude oil futures and oil futures options dropped like rocks in pond at the news of the lightning rebel advance into Tripoli in the Libyan civil war. Oil futures and oil futures options had been driven higher by the threat to oil production posed by the civil war in the North African oil producer. Although [...]

Stock Options Trading

The stock options trading news these days is that puts on LinkedIn are expensive, twice that of call options on the newly released stock. LinkedIn was in the news last week as it went public. An issue before the IPO and now is LinkedIn employee stock options. Employee stock options at LinkedIn amount to nearly [...]

US Debt Options Trading

In view of Standard and Poors announcement about US debt options trading may be a viable means of containing investment risk while retaining the ability to profit from market movements. S & P issued an announcement that the chances of a reduction of the US debt rating is one in three over the next years. [...]

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. [...]

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