Options The potentially grey and obscure world of complex financial instruments is often put aside for the purposes of maintaining both conversation and consciousness over dinner. The world of swaps was firmly placed in this category of protracted and almost ...

Binary Options Options are often seen as the toys of those with deep enough pockets to afford them and strong enough nerve to know when to get out or ride through the potential for large account drawdown. This often puts them out of sight and mind of most retail traders ...

Options Strategies With global markets trending lower, Friday morning saw US stocks struggling to find direction as investors bought up beaten-down sectors in the aftermath of yesterday’s massive sell-off. Investors continue to remain cautious however,  as the fear remains ...

Options Strategies Coming into the summer months, most traders are aware of the fact that the market tends to become a little less directional and moves sideways or consolidates. Normally, this isn’t too much of an issue for stock traders, but as option traders, we are ...

Options Options are essentially derivative securities that are totally different from futures. While a future is an obligation on both the parties involved, options on the other hand, are simply an obligation on the seller’s part but the right of the buyer. ...

Stock Options History and purpose of stock options: Stock Options have been around since the early 70s, and they were created as part of the broader derivatives markets, in an effort to make global financial trading more efficient and more stable. Ultimately the derivatives ...

Stock Options As you may already know, Options have a unique, non dollar for dollar pricing structure, they offer the best risk / reward ratio for investing and short term trading alike. Stock Option trading is all about taking that unique pricing structure into account ...

Stock Options Put Options are used extensively by investors as a way to hedge their stock portfolio, much like Call Options, Put Options are legally binding contracts, except that Put Options that grant the buyer the right to SELL 100 shares of a stock, at a predetermined ...

Options Strategies Trading stock Options can be extremely favourable from a risk – reward perspective, but it can also be extremely confusing where one ‘minor’ overlooked detail can ruin everything. When I first started trading Options I never looked at these factors, ...

Stock Options The concept of Call Options: American style Call Options are legally binding contracts that grant the buyer the right to buy 100 shares of the underlying stock, at a fixed predetermined price. This right comes at a cost, known as the premium of the Option, ...