Friday the December 18th 2015 brought us a quadruple witching day, which was the expiration of index futures, index options, stock options, and single stock futures all on the same day. Such Read More …
The Call Option Explained in Layman Terms Let us say you have a friend Anand who wants to buy a house but does not have much money or has not yet established credit rating in the new place. Your other Read More …
“Options Greeks” are tools that investors use to measure option prices. They use Greek alphabets, Delta, Gamma, Theta, Rho and the exception Vega which isn’t a Greek alphabet. Option Greeks measure aspects of risk associated with holding long (buy) or Read More …
Happy Independence Day! Financial-market participants, knowingly or unknowingly have become speculators. They may not even realize that they are playing a “greater-fool game,” buying over valued securities and expecting – hoping- to find someone, a greater fool, to buy from Read More …
Getting aggressive return on investment (ROI) in our self-directed individual retirement account (IRA) is a great enterprising and entertaining way of spending time instead of watching brain-less TV or brain-less chatting on social media. There are 168 hours in a Read More …
Before actually discussing options strategies, it is absolutely required to understand the fundamentals as it is the case with our educational system. So here are the fundamentals from the horse’s mouth, the professionals from NASDAQ. Equity options today are hailed Read More …
It is an income strategy by collecting a premium upfront, a form of income, where you are obligated to buy the stock at a certain price called the strike price sometime in the future on or before expiration date when Read More …
Swinging for the Fences with GMCR – KO Partnership Fizz – How to increase your ROI with Options? On Wednesday Feb 5th 2014 evening during the earnings announcement Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (ticker symbol GMCR) CEO Brian P. Kelly announced Read More …
The key to generating income using option strategies is to sell “Time”. Time is a one-way coordinate. Taking advantage of quality of time which we call as “Time Decay” is at the heart of income strategies. Here are the 3 Read More …