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Have you ever lost money trading stock options?
Chances are good that you tried to apply the 3 trading horizons of stock trading to options trading and then got yourself hurt real bad.
There are 3 time horizons or what we call trading horizons in stock trading and they are; Long Term, Mid Term and Short Term. [...]
You don’t need to be a trader or an investor to know that the higher the risk, the greater the reward. This concept is true in all aspects of life and business. The more risk you are willing to undertake in life, the more life returns to you. Indeed, risk and reward are directly proportional [...]
A few years ago on a Monday morning, I checked my brokerage account and to my surprise it showed that I had purchased 1,000 shares of AMD for a total cost of $15,000. The payment for this purchase was taken out of my brokerage money market account.
Why surprised you may ask. I had not put [...]
Professional traders use the term “lean” to refer to one’s perception about the directional strength of the stock. When you own a stock and intend to hold it for a period of time, you are aware that you will probably be holding it while it goes up and while it goes down.
This means that at [...]
Here we will help you get a handle on what stock options are and how they work. The game of buying and selling stock options began in 1973, when contracts were standardized and started trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Let me walk you through my first options transaction in the summer [...]
We often hear people saying that trading or investing in options is very risky. Yes, it is certainly no mean feat to trade or invest, using options as your investment vehicle. But is it really that risky in the first place? If trading or investing in options is really risky, then why are there so [...]
Have you ever considered investing in the stock market? Even with the way the stock market is moving? With today’s economy, stock trading is extremely risky for beginners. If you don’t know what you are doing in stock trading, you can lose your investment very quickly.
There is an alternative that many new investors do [...]
Upper Saddle River, N.J. – September 12, 2006 – The government’s investigation into the excesses of executive compensation has now expanded into the practice of granting backdated stock options, with at least 100 companies now under the microscope. This seemingly widespread and highly questionable practice has triggered the government’s consideration of ways in which [...]
One strategy companies have used in recent years is to reward employees with options to purchase a certain amount of the company’s stock for a fixed price after a defined period of time. The employee is not required to exercise the option. Usually (and hopefully), by the time the employee’s options vest (become eligible for [...]