Archive for December 2009

Risk in Stock Market – Stock Market Risk Management

Risk in the stock market is everywhere. Investing in the stock market is fraught with worry, for good reason. If you lose half of your investment, you must double your return to just breakeven. Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the world’s greatest investor, states his first rule of investing is “do not lose [...]

Big-Game Hunting for Maximum Profits with Options

Even if you just started to research options as a potential addition to your portfolio, you’ve probably seen some the advertisements that talk about how options allow investors to “control” hundreds or even thousands of shares of a company’s stock for just a fraction of the price of buying the shares directly. That bit of [...]

Put Time On Your Side

Many conservative income generation trading strategies depend on the time decay inherent in options pricing. When I establish an iron condor well OTM (out of the money), I am selling option spreads and expecting those spreads to slowly lose value as the underlying stock or index trades within a channel. Other traders may use butterfly [...]

Real Estate Investment: Why Invest On Real Estate?

It’s all about money. And if there are other things included, they will be found somewhere in between.
Not that we are trying to be too materialistic here but lets face it, we all need some security that would run down through the years. And that’s exactly what a real estate investment is.
Unquestionably, the benefits that [...]

Trading Profit in Any Market Conditions

To every investor, stock market is a challenge. One wishes to meet these, aiming high profits. Is it possible to stay on the pedestal of profits at all times? Is it possible to beat the market with your every move? The answer is clearly in the negative. Profits and losses are part of this game. [...]

Ranked 3 Forex Trader at Barclays and 1st for Sharp Ratio for the Year in Currency Trader Magazine

OurRanked 3 Forex Trader at Barclays and 1st for Sharp Ratio for the Year in Currency Trader Magazine
Hello, hope all is well. My name is Dana O’Keefe; I am a senior account executive with Boston Trading and Research (BTR). We at BTR work with High Net Worth individuals, Pension Funds, Asset Management Firms, Hedge [...]

A Real Estate Investing Primer

Consolidation loans merge all your debts and bills into a single payment. This means, that if you have several monthly payments or a number of different loans, you can make things easier by consolidating them and taking one single loan to pay off the total debt.
Aren’t you just tired of reading about the positive characteristics [...]

The Options Playbook (Spiral-bound)

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For latest version of The Options Playbook please search in Amazon for The Options Playbook, Expanded 2nd Edition. Sixty pages of new content has been added to the original playbook. It only sells for $25 on this site. –Brian OverbyTradeKing Senior Options Anaylst and Author of The [...]

Option Credit Spreads – Frequently Asked Questions

It has been well said that one of the most profitable skills you can ever learn is the art of trading. But when it comes to trading the stock market, there are many different strategies available to us. Some are very volatile, short term and high risk, while others are much more flexible, less stressful [...]

Have You Insured Your Stocks?

Many people think of options trading as very risky and suitable only for the “high rollers”. In this article we will demonstrate one of the ways options can be used in conservative financial portfolios.The basic definition of a put option is that it gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell 100 [...]