Current Most Active Options
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 …
Stock Options
Naked Put Option Calculator
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 …
Covered Call Calculator
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 …
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 …
How To Increase Your Probability of Success With Options
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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10 Commandments of Option Trading
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 …
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 Power of Trading Weekly Options
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, …
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 …
