7 Essentials For Effective Options Trading
I’ll be discussing a comprehensive options strategy and key fundamentals for long-term successful options trading. These essentials will enable your portfolio to appreciate steadily month after month...
View ArticleOptions: How About Those Losing Trades and Managing Risk Profile?
Let’s discuss losers and managing options trades that move against you despite the high probability of winning the trade at the onset. When engaging in options trading, losing trades are inevitable...
View ArticleOptions: Long-Term Game of Discipline and Outperformance
Options trading is a long game that requires discipline, patience, time, maximizing the number of trade occurrences and continuing to trade through all market conditions. To this end, an options-based...
View ArticleWhat Does Life Insurance Have To Do With Options Trading?
Generating smooth and consistent income month after month without predicting which way the stock market will move is the objective of options trading. Running an option-based portfolio offers a...
View ArticleThere's No Edge In Stock Picking
Those that subscribe to the efficient market hypothesis believe that there’s no edge or advantage when it comes to picking stocks. Thus, stock-picking is a binary event and boils down to a 50/50...
View ArticleYour Option Contract Was Assigned - Now What?
Options trading can serve as a powerful means to generate consistent income and mitigate portfolio risk while producing high probability win rates. Options trading allows one to profit without...
View ArticleOptions: You Choose Whether You Win 70%, 80% or 90% Of Your Trades
Previously, I wrote an article putting forth the efficient market hypothesis termed “There's No Edge In Stock Picking” and how less than 10% of fund managers outperform their benchmark over the...
View Article6.9% Options Portfolio Return vs. 2.2% S&P 500 Return
Over the past 12 months, I’ve managed an options-based portfolio and demonstrated how this approach can offer a superior alternative to traditional stock picking. An options-based approach is very...
View ArticleOptions Based Portfolio Outperformance - Keys To Success
A year-long case study running an options-based portfolio was conducted in an effort to demonstrate the effectiveness of this strategy against the traditional stock-picking approach. Options are a...
View ArticleHow To Trade Options In Small Accounts
How can you effectively run an options-based portfolio when trading with a small account? How can you trade options on stocks like Tesla (TSLA), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Apple (AAPL), Disney (DIS), Facebook...
View ArticleOptions Trading And The Bull Market No One Saw Coming
2019 has ushered in one of the most surprising bull markets that nearly no one saw coming. The vast majority of Wall Street analysts underestimated the strength of this bull market as we enter into...
View ArticleBrokers Go Commission Free - Options Paradise
TD Ameritrade, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and E-Trade are following in Robinhood's footsteps and offering commission-free trading on all stocks, ETFs, and options trading! This presents an options...
View ArticleProtect Your Portfolio Gains In A Euphoric Market
Impeachment proceedings, U.S.-China trade war, Federal Reserve actions, etc., dominate the headlines and move markets in lock-step. The broader indices are at all-time highs and continue to set new...
View ArticleOptions-Based Portfolio: 50% Cash and Matching S&P 500 Returns
2019 shaped up to be a historic year for the stock market indices. The S&P 500 posted its fourth-best annual return in over 20 years, coming in at a ~29.5% return (my options-based portfolio has...
View ArticlePut Spread Options - Defining Risk and Maximizing Returns
As 2020 unfolds and the markets continue to break through record highs, investors should heed these lofty levels. We’re in the longest bull market in history and the U.S. has started and ended a decade...
View ArticleCapitalizing On The Coronavirus Induced Volatility
The Coronavirus has become the black swan event that has materialized into worldwide hysteria. The spread of viruses globally has halted supply chains, commerce, retail, and specifically the travel and...
View ArticleDon't Be Remiss - Start Buying Stocks
The coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has pummeled stocks and has caused a complete collapse of the entire market. Broader indices such as the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones have lost over 20% of...
View ArticleSeeing Beyond The Black Swan Event
Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow, Ray Dalio was recklessly dismissive of cash positions, stating "cash is trash." Even Goldman Sachs proclaimed that the economy...
View ArticleCOVID-19 - Adding Speculative Positions
Now is as good time as any to put on some speculation plays because this COVID-19 black swan event may be a once in a lifetime opportunity. This COVID-19 induced sell-off has been the worst since the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 - An Agile Options Strategy
COVID-19 has become the black swan event that has materialized into a worldwide economic halt. The spread of the virus globally has crushed stocks and decimated entire industries such as airlines,...
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