Below is a list of the current most active options traded as of Apr 22, 2021. Stocks: Symbol/ Contracts/ %Calls/ %Puts/ Daily Vol% T 382425 83.61 16.39 1113.47 TSLA 317955 66.93 33.07 124.15 AAPL 194653 […]
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A naked put option calculator allows an option trader to key in the following data points: Stock Price. Put option strike price. Naked put option premium credit received. Days until expiration. Margin interest rate when needed. An option trader must consider whether the put option is a cash-secured put in a cash settled account or
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A covered call calculator allows an investor to enter in: Stock price Strike price Call premium Days until expiration Margin interest rate You can then see the analysis of the parameters of the covered call write: Cost of the shares. Credit received from selling call options. Total capital required for the option play. Cost basis
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally at: Do Buyers Of Options Benefit From High Volatility? and is reposted here with permission. Search “options and volatility” in Google and you’ll get a dozen websites that say the same thing: option buyers want high volatility and option sellers want low volatility. Oddly enough,
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted HERE. It probably didn’t take long after becoming a trader to stumble upon options. Brokerages and websites all over the internet are constantly pitching these complex financial derivatives, claiming things like “defined risk” and “100% returns a month”. But these advertisements only end
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This is a guest post by Dan Neagoy @ThetaTrend. Dan is the founder of Theta Trend a site devoted to helping retail traders become consistently profitable options income traders. Put 75%+ Odds In Your Favor – How To Increase Your Probability of Success With Options One of the biggest challenges newer traders face is finding a
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Thou shalt make risk management your #1 priority when trading options. Thou shalt not let greed be your guide to position sizing. Thou shalt not kill your trading capital by selling too much option premium against a trend. Thou shalt not trade option contracts before you fully understand their pricing model. Thou shalt not
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Recently I have been searching for and studying the option strategies of the wealthy and retired author and trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In my search I stumbled across this great article that shares some of Taleb’s basic methods for trading options which are shocking and also how the legendary trader Victor Niederhoffer ended up completely
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I love trading liquid weekly options, they are amazing tools if used correctly. Weekly options give a trader leverage, risk management, asymmetric trades, and the ability to make triple digit returns on capital at risk. I know of no other tools that have such upside and limited downside. And many of the weekly options like SPY, IWM, QQQ,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg7RBwhgj6E On this scary holiday of ghouls and goblins, trick or treating, and haunted houses it made me think of what is really scary for traders to do. Emotions sometimes are sending traders messages, fear can mean that you have not done enough homework or that you are trading too big. Fear can be
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I have had many traders asking me for my top option book picks over the years so I thought it would be a great blog topic. In my journey through reading hundreds of trading books these are my favorite 10 that benefited me the most in my option education over the years. I picked books
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The following metrics are based on buying weekly October 20th options and just playing the earnings announcement only. Buying October 27 or September options and allowing a trend to run will give you more time for this trade to work out. But this post is for explaining option plays through
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Charts are my best mentors and moving averages are my best teachers. Entering into Monday Morning I am long Apple with an in the money $610 strike weekly call option but I am hedged with an out of the money $620 weekly put. Like me many traders see indecision
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This morning one of the best short play stocks of the year gapped up on earnings and provided a new opportunity for beat up longs to get out with their shirts and bears a chance to get short at a much better entry price. I took the entry and went
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Who is Dan Zanger? Dan Zanger is the modern day version of the legender trader Nicolas Darvas. His mother Elaine loved the stock market and Dan would often watch the business channel with her. One day in 1978 Dan saw a stock explode across the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen hitting $1.
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With most indexes breaking out to multi-year highs after the European debt crises appearing to be kicked farther down the road for now we are setting up for a possible run up into new price territory in many leading names. I am holding three positions going into Monday morning. While
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Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril. Chinese proverb. Stock options are not lottery tickets, chips in a casino, or a path to easy street. They are tools for the transference of risk from one person to the other. When trading options you must understand where
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Weekly options are very powerful tools in the hands of a trader that understands them but can do serious damage in the account of a trader that uses them to gamble. Weekly options can be great trading tools if the position size is right and they are used inside of a quantifiable trading system that is
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The strange thing about trading is the vast majority of traders lose money. Most studies put it at 90% as the amount of traders that are unprofitable in the long term. How can this be? The majority of traders are trading on emotions and predictions instead of what
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The following excerpt is taken from my book Show me Your Options co authored with Christopher Ebert the “Option Scientist”. (The following chat is set inside a facebook group in 2011, Apple has appreciated greatly since this book was published). Income Investor: I heard you were the group’s resident guru on stock options. I sell
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