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“Are you, nuts?! You want me to risk part of my savings trading options? This whole covered calls idea sounds like just another one of those crazy options strategies that sound great, but don’t deliver in the end.”

My pal was a normally a mild-mannered sort – very contemplative, always weighing the consequences rationally before acting. In short, a logical thinker.

Imagine my dismay when that one phrase, “trading options”, triggered this unprecedented tirade. You’d think I’d insulted his family or something even worse. Continue reading ‘Covered Calls – The Easy Way to Make Money Trading Options?’ »

Options methods abound for the options trader. Options are highly flexible trading instruments and they lend themselves to several different profitable strategies. This is one reason why they’re so interesting to so many people. There are options strategies to fit any financier. You simply need to know about them in order to be ready to utilize them.

*Long Calls–These options strategies are utilized in decisive bull markets. This is probably the 1st options trading strategy that you need to learn if you are new to the game. Here, you simply buy an options contract that leverages an underlying asset which you think is going to probably rise in value before the contract expires. When you buy a call option, you get the right, without any need your part, to buy the asset at the price that it carries at the time of contract purchase at any time before the contract finishes. By going’long’, you are holding on to this contract till the asset prices rises enough where you would purchase it at a nice profit. Continue reading ‘Options Trading Strategies For Consistent Approach to Leveraged Trading’ »