Natural Gas Options Trading

A brief rally in natural gas options trading was snuffed out recently. High levels of natural gas production have driven prices down. It has been an unusually mild winter in North America and a number of natural gas suppliers have announced reductions in production. The prospect of reduced supply has encouraged commodity options traders to [...]

Trade Options on the US Economic Recovery

As the recession continues to lift in the USA is it time to trade options on the US economic recovery? Traders may choose to engage in foreign currency options trading , trading options on US stocks, or options trading of commodities. In each case a slow but sure US economic recovery will likely set [...]

Euro Zone Recovery

A Euro Zone recovery may be in the works. Stocks rallied in Europe on news that Germany, as well as China, manufacturing indices came in higher than forecasted. A sign of renewed confidence on the continent was the lower interest rates paid at auction for Italian bonds although French bonds weakened. Meanwhile the Euro fell [...]

Trading Options on Euro Zone Stocks

Trading options on Euro Zone stocks could be profitable in the near future. As European leaders come to a consensus about measures to tie the EU more closely together it has prompted rallies in stock markets across the world. The collective Euro Zone economy is roughly equal to that of the United States as the [...]

Trading Options on US Debt

Many traders might be interested in effective ways of trading options on US debt considering the apparent failure of the so called Super Committee to come to grips with the mounting US debt. Hedging risk with options is a common tactic in uncertain times like this. Trading options can also give traders a useful and [...]

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 [...]

Employee Stock Options

Employee stock options can dilute the value of the stock of a company. The current example is the recent initial public offering by LinkedIn. The company went public last week. A concern going into the first day was that LinkedIn has a large number of employee stock options outstanding. This is common in Silicon Valley [...]

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. [...]

What are Call Options?

What are call options? In stock trading these are contracts giving the buyer the right to purchase 100 shares of stock per contract. The trader pays a premium to purchase the options contract. He then has the right to buy stock but is under no obligation to do so. The trader will analyze the fundamentals [...]

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