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- Learn About Stock Option Trading
Learn stock option trading and use option trading strategies to create income, increase profits, and limit capital losses in your investment portfolio.
- Stock Option Trading for the Beginer Trader
Getting started in stock or option trading is daunting. Let us help you get focused, build your trading knowledge, and develop powerful trading methods and option trading systems
- Realistic Trading Expectations for Stock and Option Traders
Often novice traders enter the stock and option markets with unrealistic trading expectations. So, what king of returns can you expect from trading stocks or options?
- Trading For A Living - Part 1
Wonding what it would be like to make trading for a living your full time career? Let's take a look at what is required.
- Trading For A Living - Part 2
We continue our look at trading for a living, it's benefits and drawbacks, as well as realistic expections for a trading career.
- Introduction To Stock Options
An introduction to stock options, with an emphasis upon setting goals for your option trading education. Our goal is to help you become an effective options trader.
- Overview of Stock Options
A basic overview of stock option contracts and an introduction as to how they can be used in your trading. Both call options and put options are covered.
- What Is A Stock Option | Call Option | Put Option | Strike Price
Explanation of a stock option, call option and put option, including strike price, expiration date, and underlying security.
- What Is A Call Option
A long call option can be used to reduce market risk, while also leveraging profits from stock option trading.
- Put Option Explained
The put option is reviewed as a tool to protect a stock portfolio from losses, to profit from falling prices with limited trading risk, or to buy stock at below market prices.
- Stock Option Selling Basics | Stock Option Writing and Becoming an Option Writer
An introduction to stock option selling. Selling options is also referred to as option writing and generates a cash premium to the seller's account. We cover the basics of being an option writer.
- Stock Option Pricing and the Greeks
A short video presentation to help you master the greeks and stock option pricing conepts.
- Stock Option Pricing And The Greeks
Often overlooked and mis-understood by new option traders, learning how to price stock options is a critical skill that cannot be overlooked. The option greeks are fundamental to success.
- Implied Volatility Assessed with ChartBender Pro and Options University Volcone
Implied volatility is a critical aspect of stock option trading. Understand why and see how to use ChartBender Pro or Volcone to assess market conditions.
- Theta and Time Decay
Understanding the effects of theta, or time decay, is another key to improving your stock option trading results. Learn how to increase your probability of profiting!
- Black Scholes Excel Option Calculator by Kai Reinke
Kai Reinke's Excel stock option calculator uses a formula, similar to the Black Scholes option pricing formula, to assist you in analyzing your stock option positions with one look at a risk graph.
- DiNapoli Levels and Fibonacci Levels – Explanation And Example, by Kent Shaw
Kent Shaw walks us through both an explanation and an example of how to plot Fibonacci levels on a stock price chart to identify DiNapoli levels and logical profit objectives
- Vertical Option Credit Spread
Vertical credit spread stock option trading strategy of two varieties; bull put spread and bear call spread. When properly used, they are high probability trades in range bound or trending markets.
- Bull Put and Bear Call Credit Spread
Bull put spread and bear call option spread defined. A high probability credit spread for trading range bound or trending markets.
- The Credit Spread and The Iron Condor
Take your stock option trading knowledge to the next level. Discover how to combine two credit spread positions to reduce risk and enhance profits by creating an iron condor.
- Credit Spread Trading System
Develop a simple but effective trading system for trading a short-term credit spread for consistent profits and monthly cash flow.
- SPX Iron Condor Tutorial
Learn how to trade the iron condor option strategy on the SPX or other large stock index for consistent monthly trading profits.
- Butterfly Option Trades
Discovery the basics of the butterfly option strategy, and how this low risk, delta neutral approach can be used to capture profits.
- VIX Historical Chart
A historical chart of the VIX dating back to before the 1987 market crash with the S&P 500 superimosed.