How To Learn The Stock Market

It’s a rite of passage, learning how to manage your own money when you get your first “real” job. From every direction people are offering suggestions as to investments into which you can put any extra money that you may have at the end of the month. In all likelihood you’re thinking to yourself “what [...]

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Binary Options Explained

// Here at Stock Options Explained we’ve gone to some length to describe stock options basics and the fundamentals of trading stock options. Since most investors trade ordinary ‘vanilla’ options on exchanges such as the CBOE, we have limited our discussion to standard stock options strategies such as buying puts and calls, and selling options, [...]

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Options Trading Explained-Writing Options

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Finding Your Own Stock Option Picks

Stock Option Picks – Seek Out Good Tools, Not ‘Answers’ // Many new investors, having gotten a taste of the potential for profits offered by trading stock options, begin to look for ways to automate the process of picking specific stock options contracts that might have a better than average chance of appreciating before their [...]

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Explain Option Trading In Terms Of A Risk Continuum

Don’t let the word ‘continuum’ make you click away; my point is that most investing neophytes think of stock options as risky investments and it’s just not the whole story. While it’s true that going long with calls or puts means that you are risking most or all of your investment funds in that particular [...]

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How A Protective Put Strategy Can Make You Money, And Help You Sleep

The last month or so the stock market has had a run-up of about 10% in terms of the S&P 500; the path wasn’t straight up, but still the rise has been quite impressive. If you are mostly long in your stock portfolio you are feeling some relief compared to the low point just before [...]

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Hedging With Options

If you have been getting stock options explained to you via this stock options guide, it should be pretty clear by now there are many ways to use options that do not involve increased risk, that in fact serve to reduce overall risk in our portfolio. In a nutshell writing calls and puts usually gives [...]

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