Yes, buying puts is a good strategy to take. You can also reduce the cost of your trades by buying debit put spreads. However that approach will...
AMZN will continue to move upward in 2016, as it should add more members to its prime program. Still a juggernaut in the cloud market, which...
I would be careful with GPRO. Lots of negative sentiment surrounding that equity.
why do you have a put and a call calendar? Why not pick one of the two? Commission for entering and exiting those strikes will eat into the...
It will be a mixed earnings season; I'm bias towards the bearish side. Lets see what happens.
Yes, but you increase your chances when the underlying is liquid.
Looking on Thinkorswim, I am seeing the Yahoo SEP4-15 weekly option calls and put chain. I am not sure an underlying can remove a weekly chain...
Your breakeven is the strike price + the cost of the option. And so if the strike price is 100 and the cost of the option call is $2, then the...
That's great. Another opportunity to collect short term premium.
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Are you planning on buying calls for all those equities you mentioned?
Based on everything you've said, you have a long way to go before taking on options trading as a full time gig. Get back into your line of work,...
I use ThinkOrSwim (TOS) as my trading platform. If that's the platform you use, TOS provides you the put/call ratio at the bottom right of the...
Deciding to buy a call or put after earnings should be dependent on the underlying equity's fundamentals. You have to understand the business...
I wasn't even aware that Google Finance had option chains.
There are many potential possibilities as to why he committed suicide. He might have felt he wasn't respected by his peers. He might have been...
If you are having to constantly monitor your credit trades, then I would venture out to say your strategy is not on solid ground. Majority of my...
what constitutes high frequency trading in this situation? If he's trading out of his home in Florida, he most likely doesn't have access to...
just entered a long iron condor JPM. APR-15 61 Short Put/61.5 Long Put/62.5 Long Call/63 Short Call. Debit: .35. Potential ROI: 22.8%
Successful $GOOG weekly bull put spread. APR2-15 530 short put leg/527.5 long put leg. Duration: 4 days. expired 4/11/13 ROI: 12%
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