Archive for June 2010

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, risking a little to make a lot. However, it ignores the probabilities involved. Buying a lottery ticket for $1 to potentially make one million [...]

Smart trading for gaining a competitive edge

Investors as well as professionals from the finance sector are well aware of what currency futures are, role of stock brokers, stocks market intricacies, profitable market shares, and related regalia. Novice investors who are completely new and have not yet started their investment venture will do take some time in understanding the nuances of trading. [...]

Weekly Binary Options Analysis May 3-7

Indices
U.S. stocks lost ground in the past week as concerns deepened that Europe’s debt crisis may derail the global recovery. These, along with proposed legislation that may hurt the financial sector, overshadowed a string of positive earnings and pledges by the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low.
 
For the week, the S&P [...]

Call Option Put Option Tips

Dow Nasdaq U.S.Stocks Technical Analysis By Bullet Advisory Bullet Advice for Indian Stocks-U.S.Market Trend DOW (10067.30) and NASDAQ (2147.30) closed 1.0% and 2.6% down respectively last week.Support for DOW is at 9980 and NASDAQ 2115.Resistance for DOW is at 10220 and NASDAQ 2200. Trend Of Major Indices and Stocks Symbol Trend No. of Days WeeklyTrend [...]

Key to Options Trading Success

Lately, I have been asked about what I think is the single key that determines if you would make it as a rich man in options trading.
This is an extremely interesting question as I am not someone inclined to believe that any single reason constitutes to the success in anything at all. However, that got [...]

Currency Fx Trading Tips

It has always been very difficult to constantly make money trading Currency Fx. The basic rules of trading are very hard to stick with. Normally new (and not so new  Traders) make these mistakes:
·         Trade too often. It is not the number of trades but the success of your trades that is important.
·         [...]

Two by One Call & Put Spread

This is one of the simplest techniques in derivative trading virtually nullifying the capital risk. In simple words this is a technique in which the trader used to buy two near ‘out of money’ call/put option of same strike or different strike and sell one ‘in the money’ or ‘at the money’ call/put option resulting [...]

What’s better 90% Probability or 70% Probability Index Iron Condors and Credit Spreads Options?

There are many index iron condor & credit spread options advisory newsletters on the market today.  The index iron condor options strategy is popular because it’s relatively easy to understand, it doesn’t require options analysis software to visualize the trade, and it generates an excellent monthly income of 6% to 10% ROI per month.  Most [...]

Options Trading Mastery: Effects of Volatility on the Time Spread

When purchasing a time spread, the investor should pay attention to not only the movement of the stock price, but also the movement of volatility. It plays a very large roll in the price of a time spread, which is an excellent way to take advantage of anticipated volatility movements in a hedged fashion.
Option Volatility
Since [...]

Options Trading Mastery: Spread Prices

Vertical spreads will trade between its minimum and maximum values – zero and the difference between the two strikes. In the case of a vertical call spread, the spread will trade closer to zero when the stock trades closer to or lower than the lower strike price. The spread will trade closer to maximum value [...]