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• Trade Options with a 90% Probability of Success
  It is critically important to match one's trading style and risk tolerance with the right trading strategy. This paper discusses the opposite ends of the probability spectrum of trading strategies.
  Published 02Sep2009, viewed 341 times

• Why Losing Trades Are Good For You
  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 several fatal flaws in trading.
  Published 02Sep2009, viewed 290 times

• The Psychology of Trading
  Two emotions, fear and greed, can be lethal to your financial success. Developing an unemotional, systematic approach to your trading and investments is crucial for success. This paper will present five guidelines to help you control your emotions and improve your trading results.
  Published 01Sep2009, viewed 426 times

• Trading Options: Good or Evil?
  You have probably heard people refer to options as a risky enterprise, akin to gambling. And it is true that options trading can be very risky, especially when engaged in with minimal knowledge and preparation. The average stockbroker or financial planner does not have sufficient options knowledge to guide you in the use of options in your portfolio. But that doesn't mean options cannot play a role in a conservative portfolio of stocks.
  Published 01Sep2009, viewed 381 times

• 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.
  Published 01Sep2009, viewed 493 times

• Equity Option Cycles
  Beginning options traders often are confused about the organization of option chains. This paper covers the basic concepts surrounding which options are available at any given point in time, and how that may affect the options you trade.
  Published 02Aug2009, viewed 232 times

• Put Time On Your Side
  Many conservative income generation trading strategies depend on the time decay inherent in options pricing. These trades are based on time decay working in the trader's favor.
  Published 04Aug2009, viewed 375 times

• There Is No Free Lunch
  Successfully trading any market requires education, hard work, a systematic approach, practice (experience), and discipline. There is no free lunch.
  Published 04Aug2009, viewed 333 times

• Beware the Hype in Options Trading
  The options education industry is loaded with excessive marketing hyperbole, exaggeration, half-truths, and "get rich quick" schemes. Don't be deceived by the hype.
  Published 01Aug2009, viewed 270 times

• Facts and Fallacies About Risk/Reward Ratios
  One will commonly hear or read the following "rule of thumb" for trading: Only trade positions with potential profits of at least three times the potential loss. This sounds like a reasonable rule, but it ignores the probabilities involved. Buying a lottery ticket for $1 to potentially make one million dollars certainly meets this criterion for a good trade. But we intuitively know that the odds against us winning are astronomical.
  Published 01Aug2009, viewed 331 times

• Squeezing Additional Income From Your Stocks
  Many people think of options trading as very risky and suitable only for the "high rollers". This article briefly surveys how options can be used in conservative financial portfolios to boost the income from your stocks.
  Published 01Aug2009, viewed 238 times

• Vertical Spreads and Implied Volatility
  Following is a common myth of options spread trading: When implied volatility is high, sell credit spreads and when implied volatility is low, buy debit spreads. But this is simply not true. The credit spread and its corresponding debit spread at the same strike prices will always have virtually identical returns on investment (ROI).
  Published 01Aug2009, viewed 358 times

• Option Expiration and Exercise
  Beginning options traders often make costly mistakes due to either a lack of knowledge or misinformation about the basic parameters of options and their exercise. Examples of common errors include being surprised that one is unable to close an index option position on the Friday before expiration, or being surprised by an unhedged option exercise during expiration.
  Published 02Jul2009, viewed 480 times

• The Dangerous Iron Condor
  The iron condor option spread is a conservative, non-directional trading strategy that may be used for consistent income generation. This strategy profits as long as the index trades within the channel formed by the two spread positions. However, the maximum losses possible are several times larger than the maximum potential profits. Hence, prudent trade management and adjustment strategies are crucial for success with the iron condor.
  Published 01Jul2009, viewed 687 times

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