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Three Way to Use Options

This will introduce the three main options strategies: speculation income, or protection the advantages and disadvantages of each  There are two kinds of options, calls and puts. The first strategy we'll look at is speculation . Usually when a trader buys a call or a put, he is speculating on the stock price. If you think a stock is going to rise, you'd buy a call . If you think the stock is going to fall, you'd buy a put . The advantage of speculating with options, is that it allows you the potential to profit from a securities price movement with a small initial investment for the option contract. However option is significantly riskier than a stock. For example, let's say you're bullish and want to buy a particular stock. Because the stock is trading around $670 per share, purchasing 100 shares would require you to invest about $67,000. However, you can purchase a call option for the same stock for significantly less. Fro example, one contract recently traded for...

Covered Calls

 We've all heard the saying, "the trend is your friend." This is true when the trend's moving in your direction. Over the course of holding stock, investors expect it to rise over the long term. But keep in mind that stocks rally, pull back, rally, and pull back over and over again. Obviously, if you own a stock, you won't profit when it moves down or sideways in the short term. So what can you do? The answer might be to sell covered calls. By selling a covered call, you could generate a small amount of income and help reduce volatility. In this short video, we'll discuss the basics of covered calls. You'll learn what a covered call is, how to analyze its risk profile, and gain a better idea of whether this strategy is right for you portfolio. Let's start by defining what a covered call is. A covered is when an investor sells a call option contract against an underlying stock position. When you sell or short a call option, you sell someone else the rig...

Implied Volatility

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 Think about two different companies that have the exact same stock price. Now, let's consider the same option on those two stocks, an option with the same strike prices and same expiration date. Now, why would the price of one option for a company be so different from the option on the other? The answer: Implied volatility. We will looking at how implied volatility affects options prices and how option prices can impact your choice of strategy. Market volatility -> The VIX What is implied volatility and how is it calculated and why is it important? The relationship between stock prices and implied volatility. When stock prices are expected to make a big move up or down, investors typically purchase more options. For example, suppose the market has been falling for a few days. This might cause investors to become more protective of their stock positions. As a result, these investors might buy more put options as a form of protection. This increase in demand suggests there's ...

Important Date

Sep 14 ($LEN - earning(after market close)) Sep 15 ($SNOW - New IPO) ( earning - $ADBE, $FDX (after market close)) Sep 19 ($PTVE - New IPO) Sep 19-21 ($IDRA - final data from the trail will be shared) Sep 26 ($PTON - New IPO(price range $26-$29 per share. $1.1 billion of shares -> expected Market cap of $7.6 billion. Nov 22 ($UBER - AB5) Oct 22 (Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting Announcement) May 2021 ($TSLA - Texas building)

Rules & Step-by-Step to a successful Trade

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 Day trading is not a strategy to get rich quickly.  Day trading is not easy. It is a serious business, and you should treat it as such.  Day traders do not hold positions overnight. If necessary, you must sell with a loss to make sure you do not hold onto any stock overnight.  Always ask, "Is this stock moving because the overall market is moving, or is it moving because it has a unique fundamental catalyst?"  Success in day trading comes from risk management finding low-risk entries with a high potential reward. The minimum win:lose ratio for me is 2:1.  Your broker will buy and sell stocks for you at the exchange. Your only job as a day trader is to manage risk. You cannot be a successful day trader without excellent risk management skills, even if you are the master of many effective strategies.  Retail traders trade only stocks in play, high relative volume stocks that have fundamental catalysts and are being traded regardless of the overall marke...

Day Trading Strategies

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Price action Technical indicators Candlesticks and chart patterns Another point to remember is that in the market right now, over 60% of the volume is algorithmic high frequency trading. That means you are trading against computers. The majority of changes in stocks that you are seeing simply the result of computers moving shares around. Trade Management and Position Sizing     It is important to understand order entry, exit, position sizing and trade management. Two traders enter into a trade based on one strategy. The positions go their way and then pull back a bit. The first trader fears losing their gain and takes a quick, small profit. The second trader adds to the position on the pull back and books a large gain. Same idea, different outcomes, all as the result of two different mindsets and trade management styles.      Managing trades is the key to success. Trade management is referring to what you do with the position after you've entered it and be...

Candlestick chart History

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     The Japanese using technical analysis and some early versions of candlesticks to trade rice in the 17th century. Much of the credit for candlestick development and charting goes to a legendary rice trader named Homma from the town of Sakata, Japan. While these early versions of technical analysis and candlestick charts were different from today's version, many of the guiding principles are very similar. Candlestick charting, as we know it today, first appeared sometime after 1850. It is likely that Homma's original ideas were modified and refined over many years of trading, eventually resulting in the system of candlestick charting that we now use. In order to create a candlestick chart, you must have a data set that contains: opening price highest price in the chosen time frame lowest price in the period closing price values for each time period you want to display      The time frame can be daily, 1 hour, 5 minutes, or any other period ...