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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Who Holds The World Record For Stock Trading Returns? This Guy… Read More »
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 …
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 …
Stock Options: 10 Ways to Move From Peril to Profits Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
What is an Inverse Covered Call (The answer may surprise you) Read More »
