Stock Options

Do Buyers Of Options Benefit From High Volatility?

Do Buyers Of Options Benefit From High Volatility?

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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Buying Stocks With Cheap Optionality

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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Trading: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Vs. Victor Niederhoffer

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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The Top Ten Scariest Things A Trader Can Do…..

  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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