by Keith Cotterill Leverage can be your greatest friend, and in the wrong hands your greatest enemy. One obvious example of leverage is the National Lottery. You can pay only $1.00 and have the opportunity to win (through pure luck) millions of dollars,...
by Ellie Taft Do you know what economists mean when they claim Japan is financing the American consumer? The explanation is really quite interesting. Please, allow me… The lending rate at the central Bank of Japan is 0.5%. The US Fed rate was 4.25%,...
by Oliver Velez There are only three things a stock can do; go up, go down, or go sideways. That’s it. There is no other movement possible. In other words, there are primarily three dominant trends in the market: uptrends, downtrends, and sideways trends. An...
by Dan Keen All stock market and options market trading involves the risk of the money that is at play. However, here are five huge benefits of covered call writing that you may wish to consider. Benefit #1: If you buy a stock on the stock market, and that stock...
by Thomas DeMark Short Straddle In a short straddle, the trader believes the market will consolidate or move sideways into the options’ expirations. A short straddle entails the simultaneous sale of a call option and a put option of the same security, strike...
by Jea Yu We have all failed. No one is excluded. The journey is about coming to terms with the truth. The vast majority of traders ultimately blow out. You have most likely blown out once, twice, or more. The reality is that trading is getting...
by Peter McKenna Consumer Price Index (CPI) Time Released: 8:30 AM, Monthly, Covers Prior Month Released By: Labor Department/Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) When a dentist and his wife walk into a Home Depot in Chicago and pay $20 more for a new refrigerator than...
by Darrell Jobman Options can be used in many different ways to tailor your investment program; we will look at only a few possibilities. The concepts apply to options on stock indexes, index futures or individual stocks, but you should understand them...
by Jon Najarian Jon “Doctor J” Najarian has used the CPR strategy for many, many years – a strategy he himself discovered and then popularized. In fact, it’s become somewhat famous and was one of the main topics the instructors of the Chicago Board Options...
by Rob Roy For a trader just learning a new strategy it’s often best to walk through a trade that creates a situation that lands “in the gray”, which covers more unique occurrences that may pop up trading in the real world. This gives them a method to safely...