With the recent rash of dividend cuts by historically dependable dividend-paying companies, income investors are finding it increasingly challenging to find safe high dividend yields. Indeed, Standard & Poor’s expects 2009 to have the biggest drop in dividend payouts since 1942. The market decline has created many accidentally high dividend stocks, as companies who’ve maintained [...]
I’ll assume in this article that you already have the basic understanding of stocks and options. If not then it would be worthwhile to read about these investments first. The covered call strategy brings together stocks and options to form a third strategy…a cash flow strategy. The covered call strategy has a number of benefits [...]
Are changes coming soon to the Dow Jones Industrial Average Components?By my reckoning, there currently are 5 DJIA Components of the 30 total trading under $10/share: Alcoa (AA), Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), General Electric (GE), and General Motors (GM). Are changes to the Index imminent, and what are likely replacements?In my view, it [...]
Acclaim for the definitive guide to options trading—by the nation’s top options expert “In Options As a Strategic Investment, Lawrence G. McMillan demonstrated that he was without peer as an options strategist and educator. McMillan on Options is an outstanding sequel whose ‘take-home value’ for the reader goes [...]
Are you ready to make money in the stock market? Investing is an important step towards building your personal wealth, and there are many things to consider before you begin.
Your present financial situation
You need to begin by evaluating your current financial situation. Consider your assets, your liabilities, your total household income and the amount of [...]
When you are first starting out in any kind of venture it can be very intimidating, and with trading this is no different. If anything it can be even more daunting because you have to invest your own money and at times the financial markets can be very confusing. Options’ trading is one such type [...]
Many people enter trading, whether it be stocks, options, commodities or other markets, after having been very successful in their primary occupation. Many of these new traders are perfectionists by nature and driven to be successful. This often leads to a couple of fatal flaws in trading:
The reality of the trading business is that [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]