Posts Tagged ‘Stock Option Trading’

How to Trade Options – 12 Tenets of Daily Trade Discipline

Whoever told you trading is “easy”, is likely inexperienced and lazy; or has become experienced but remains lazy, looking to dupe an even more inexperienced and lazier person.  You need more than “Believe and Achieve” mantras.Sustaining profitable trading results requires cultivating daily trade discipline.  Like any other demanding profession, online options trading from home is [...]

Options Trading Strategies – Book Review – Guy Cohen, The Bible of Options Strategies

Most trading literature on option strategies tend to lean towards mathematical formulas to define the construction of a spread.  Guy Cohen has chosen to use pictorial logic, even with the Greeks unique to a particular strategy, to piece together the legs of a spread with diagrams.Diagrams that connect with each other are a much more [...]

Stock Option Trading – Candlesticks & OHLC Bars Lose their Patterns on a Distribution Curve

Time-based charts (namely Candlesticks, OHLC Bars and Heikin-Ashi) fail to truly depict price.  This article will help you realize that time-based pattern recognition is an unreliable method for stock option trading.Some retail training firms like to popularize the myth that, “Everyone looks at these patterns in the charts”.  They are partly right.  Though, their use [...]

Risk of ‘unlimited Loses’ in Naked Option Selling is a Myth!

For option sellers it is disconcerting to hear people say that selling naked options is extremely risky because it carries the threat of ‘unlimited loses’. Nothing is farther from the truth! It’s a myth! It’s about time we correct this misconception and put this fear to rest.
While theoretically the selling of naked options carries [...]

Online Options Trading – Portfolio Measures and Trade Performance Metrics

The Reward of Profit and the Risk of Losses for retail option trading needs to be managed at 2 related levels of performance: Portfolio and Trade Specific.At the Portfolio level for online options trading, there are 3 types of Targets that must be set, even before you trade.Maximum Return Target: complete achievement of the “ideal” [...]