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1. Reading my PALM ON PALM
(Front Page/Content)
... the stock went to 0 exit price target some contracts off @ 1.20 or higher leave rest on till Stock trades to 1.50=2.00   Now trading @ 1.485  3/19/2010  Took off come @ 1.485  ...
Saturday, 20 March 2010
2. 1.8- LEAPS
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
Long-term equity anticipation securities (LEAPS) are option contracts with expiration dates of nine months or more into the future. LEAPS are traded the same as other option contracts. The advantage is ...
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
3. 6.4- Bear Call Spread (Credit Spread)
(Courses/Undergraduate 200 Level)
... stock moves away from the strike prices of the bear call spread, the option contracts lose value. The ultimate goal of the investor is for both the options to expire worthless and to keep the credit received. ...
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
4. 6.1- Bull Put Spread (Credit Spread)
(Courses/Undergraduate 200 Level)
... stock moves away from the strike prices of the bull put spread, the option contracts lose value. The ultimate goal of the investor is for both the options to expire worthless and to keep the credit received. ...
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
5. 5.6- Theta (Short Options)
(Courses/Undergraduate 200 Level)
... of expiring ITM are higher. There are many strategies that investors use to sell option contracts to take advantage of time decay. Selling OTM options with short times until expiration can be very profitable ...
Monday, 23 November 2009
6. 5.5- Theta (Long Options)
(Courses/Undergraduate 200 Level)
... day, OTM option contracts will have lost all of their extrinsic value and expire worthless.  ...
Monday, 23 November 2009
7. 5.0- Chapter 5: Meet the Greeks
(Courses/Undergraduate 200 Level)
Now that we have covered how to use options to speculate against future stock prices, we need to cover specific topics that will help an investor choose which option contracts to use when speculating.  ...
Saturday, 21 November 2009
8. 4.1- Option Pricing Basics
(Courses/Undergraduate 200 Level)
... issued very often. Risk-free Rate The risk-free rate relates to the alternative investment in assets other than equity option contracts. The expected return for an option contract must be above ...
Thursday, 19 November 2009
9. 3.4- Market Makers
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
... underlying stock. This is where the market makers step in and take the opposite side of trades for both buyers and sellers of option contracts. Market makers attempt to remain completely hedged at all ...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
10. 3.3- Order Types
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
When an investor places an order to buy or sell an option contract there are different order types that can be placed. This lesson will cover the basic order types when trading option contracts. To begin, ...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
11. 3.2- Option Exchanges
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
... Stock Exchange is the oldest exchange in the America, founded in 1790. Recently, the exchange was purchased by NASDAQ. The ISE and CBOE trade the highest volume of equity option contracts respectively. ...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
12. 3.1- Reading Option Chains
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
Option chains list the available option contracts that can be traded on an underlying stock. Not all stocks will have option contracts available to trade and the contracts will vary based on the underlying ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
13. 3.0- Chapter 3: Options in the Marketplace
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
Up until this point, we have covered option contracts and how they can benefit investors who want to own stock or hedge against stock they already own. This is an important technique to grasp in order ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
14. 2.3- Short Option Risk Graphs
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
We have looked at the buying side of option contracts. Now let's look at the selling side. When an investor sells an option contract they are said to be "writing" an option to the option buyer. ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
15. 1.7- Exercise & Assignment
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
As we have talked about, option contracts give the buyer the right to exercise the  contract at any time before expiration (assuming American-style). When this happens, the seller of the option contract ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
16. 1.6- Option Prices (Premium)
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
... Value = Put Premium - Put Intrinsic Value Exxon Mobil is currently trading at $74.65 per share with 1 day until the November contracts expire. The November 70 call premium is $5.05 and the November 70 ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
17. 1.5- Option Expiration Cycle
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
Expiration dates for option contracts on a certain underlying stock follow a predictable cycle. Every stock with listed options is part of one of three annual cycles that remains the same each year. The ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
18. 1.4- Option Styles
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
...  Typically, option contracts that represent underlying stocks are American-style and contracts representing indexes (DOW Jones, S&P 500, etc.) are European-style.  ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
19. 1.2- Basic Option Terminology
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
There are several basic definitions regarding option contracts that must be memorized. This lesson will introduce each one. Future lessons will cover them in more detail. Option Type All exchange-listed ...
Sunday, 15 November 2009
20. 1.1- Option Basics
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
... shares). Now that we understand what call and put option contracts are, let's establish the way these contracts are exchanged between buyers and sellers. They are as follows: Long Call Option a ...
Sunday, 15 November 2009
21. 1.0- Chapter 1: What Are Options?
(Courses/Freshman 100 Level)
... A derivative is a financial instrument (an agreement between two parties) that “derives” its value from an underlying asset. There are many reasons investors utilize option contracts. They ...
Saturday, 14 November 2009

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