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5 Passive Income Streams: Building Wealth While You Sleep

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The middle class trades time for money while the wealthy build systems that generate income around the clock. This fundamental difference explains why some people work their entire lives without accumulating significant wealth, while others achieve financial independence within a decade or two. Passive income isn’t about get-rich-quick schemes. It’s about putting your capital and […]

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What Is A Covered Call & How Do I Trade It?

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Covered calls are an income strategy for traders and investors to earn money on stocks they hold. Covered Call Writing Covered call writing is an appropriate strategy in a bull market or one that is trading inside a repeating price range. Creating a covered call option play is when a trader or investor sells out-of-the-money

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Option Strategies For High Volatility

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When implied volatility for options pricing is high it is usually the best risk/reward ratio to look at selling option premium with strategies like iron condors, credit spreads and short strangles. When implied volatility falls the price of options can drop quickly creating profits for short volatility option plays. Should I buy options when volatility

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12 Powerful Option Trading Strategies Every Trader Should Know

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Here are twelve powerful options trading strategies every option trader should understand how to execute. Links included in the option play names to articles explaining each strategy with graphics. Bull Call Spread Bull Put Spread Poor Man’s’ Covered Call Synthetic Shares Bear Call Spread Bear Put Spread Jade Lizard Married Put Long & Short Straddles

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Selling Put Options: How To Buy Stocks For Less

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Selling put options is one way to get paid to buy the stock you want at the price you are waiting on. How does selling put options work? The way to use this strategy to buy stocks for less is to sell put options at strike prices at the lower level on a chart where

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Best Options Trading Books

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Here is a list of the best options trading books based on Amazon sales, reviews, ratings and author popularity. It is important to have a full understanding of the options market and pricing model before diving into options trading with real money. Options are derivative contracts and complex instruments where time, strike price, and volatility are

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Covered Puts Strategy Explained

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What are covered puts? A covered put is created when put options are sold that correlates with a short stock position already being held or opened as a sell/write at one time. The stock position acts as a hedge for the short puts to limit losses as the short shares can be used if the

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