If your investment falls by 50% you’ll need a 100% rise to get you back where you started. So when speculating in the markets, protecting the money you do have is just as important as making some more. This book is for you if you’d like to have a go [...]
Stop-loss trading strategy is one of the most popular topics among traders. There is no doubt about importance of this question. A trader may have ten winning trades in a row, still, one loss could wipe out whole earned profit if there were no strategy placed to protect the profit and limit losses. A selection [...]
The stock market appeals to people for many reasons. Some see it as a quick way to make a nice nest egg to tuck away for their eventual retirement. Some see it as a way to live out their fantasies of being a powerful, corporate type. And some are actually more logical about it, seeing [...]
Taking a look through the broadsheets of a business section you will notice that many companies offer their executive bonuses or part of their salaries for a good job. This is also known as “options”.
What actually are options? Do they have any link with stocks? What is meant by the phrase “options are exercised” [...]
Getting your start with options trading, like any successful venture in life, requires a road map. How do you know where you are going and how to get there without a map? The most successful people in the world take time to plot out their major moves, including career and investments. Being a novice with [...]
In Trading Stock Options, experienced option trader Brian Burns, explains the basics of stock options and shows you how to trade the most successful option strategies. As you begin your journey on the option path, you’ll have the luxury of real-life trade examples to show you the way. The diagrams and charts help [...]
Welcome to the wonderful world of equity options. You may have heard that option trading is high risk, and indeed it is, for much the same reasons that spread betting is high risk. The instruments themselves are derivatives from the cash markets, and are highly geared, but options themselves were originally introduced to the US [...]
For those who have not yet discovered the benefits of rolling out options, itâs high time you look closely at this very valuable feature. Roll outs not only offer additional profit generating advantages but more importantly it offers an extraordinary ability for limiting or eliminating potential losing positions. Before going on to describe the remarkable [...]
In Trading Stock Options, experienced option trader Brian Burns, explains the basics of stock options and shows you how to trade the most successful option strategies. As you begin your journey on the option path, you’ll have the luxury of real-life trade examples to show you the way. The diagrams and charts help [...]
Options have unique properties. These make options quite interesting trading vehicles and sometimes difficult to understand. Before explaining how to trade them and the different strategies let’s first examine the options fundamentals.
Strike Price
This is the price at which the buyer of a call option has the right to buy the underlying. For example if you [...]