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Best options trading strategies

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By Mike Welch Best options trading strategies are the way you us options for your favorite . Here’s a list of my favorite methods. Note: this list contains strategies that are easy to learn and understand. Each is less risky than owning stock. Most involve limited risk. For investors not familiar with options lingo read our beginners options terms and intermediate options terms posts. 1. Covered call writing. Using stock you already own (or buy new shares), you sell someone else a call option that grants the buyer the right to buy your stock at a specified price. That limits profit potential. You collect a cash premium that is yours to keep, no matter what else happens. That cash reduces your cost. Thus, if the stock declines in price, you may incur a loss, but you are better off than if you simply owned the shares. Example: Buy 100 shares of IBM Sell one IBM Jan 110 call 2. Cash-secured naked put writing. Sell a put option on a stock you want to own, choosing a strike price that...

The iron condor strategy,what is it?

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Best real estate investments   http://www.dpbolvw.net/kf117gv30v2IRNLMQQQIKLSSMLRR The iron condor is a limited risk, non-directional option trading strategy that is designed to have a large probability of earning a small limited profit when the underlying security is perceived to have low volatility. The iron condor strategy can also be visualized as a combination of a bull put spread and a bear call spread. Iron Condor Construction Sell 1 OTM Put Buy 1 OTM Put (Lower Strike) Sell 1 OTM Call Buy 1 OTM Call (Higher Strike) Using options expiring on the same expiration month, the option trader creates an iron condor by selling a lower strike out-of-the-money put, buying an even lower strike out-of-the-money put, selling a higher strike out-of-the-money call and buying another even higher strike out-of-the-money call. This results in a net credit to put on the trade. Limited Profit Maximum gain for the iron condor strategy is equal to the net credit received when entering the trad...

Microsoft trayin to humanize virtual assistance

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HYDERABAD, India — Voice-powered virtual assistants, underpinned by artificial intelligence, like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft's Cortana are becoming regular fixtures in people's lives. They're present at homes, on devices and watches and in cars, sending driving directions, weather updates, meeting reminders and the occasional joke or two when prompted. Beyond that, they remain limited in their ability to hold conversations with users, the same way real people might. Efforts are on, however, to use machine learning and real-time big data analytics to make virtual assistants understand multiple languages, accents, contexts and nuances to hold more human-like conversations. International Data Corporation predicts global spending on cognitive and AI solutions will see significant investments over the next several years, and could achieve a compound annual growth rate of 54.4 percent thr Microsoft, for example, is turning to an unlik...

Nutanix jumped 12 percent, how traders might play that trade?

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Nutanix, which went public last year, generated sales growth of 67 percent, with new business coming from companies including Caterpillar, Volkswagen and Sprint. Corporations are flocking to Nutanix's hybrid technology as they manage the transition to the cloud while also keeping key pieces of their infrastructure in-house. Revenue of $191.8 million topped the $186.6 million average analyst estimate, according to Yahoo Finance. The company's adjusted loss of 42 cents a share, compared with a 45-cent average estimate from analysts. Nutanix rose $2.18 to $19.75 after the report. The stock debuted at $16 in September and more than doubled on their opening day to $37. Prior to Thursday's announcement, the shares were down 34 percent for the year. some traders might use option trading technique To trade Nutanix to gain a huge profit with a little risk by buying near the money call options and selling out Of the money call option. For instance NTNX 20 call / June 17 is $90 and 2...

Butterfly options strategy and you use it

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A butterfly spread is a neutral option strategy combining bull and bear spreads. Butterfly spreads use four option contracts with the same expiration but three different strike prices to create a range of prices the strategy can profit from. The trader sells two option contracts at the middle strike price and buys one option contract at a lower strike price and one option contract at a higher strike price. Both puts and calls can be used for a butterfly spread. BREAKING DOWN 'Butterfly Spread' Butterfly spreads have limited risk, and the maximum losses that occur are the cost of your original investment. The highest return you can earn occurs when the price of the underlying asset is exactly at the strike price of the middle options. Option trades of this type are structured to have a high chances of earning a profit, albeit a small profit. A long position in a butterfly spread will earn profit if the future volatility of the underlying stock price is lower than the impl...

What is covered call options strategy?

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Options are excellent tools for both position trading and risk management, but finding the right strategy is key to using these tools to your advantage. Beginners have several options when choosing a strategy, but first you should understand what options are and how they work. An option gives its holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the underlying asset at a specified price on or before its expiration date. There are two types of options: a call, which gives the holder the right to buy the option, and a put, which gives its holder the right to sell the option. A call is in-the-money when its strike price (the price at which a contract can be exercised) is less than the underlying price, at-the-money when the strike price equals the price of the underlying and out-of-the-money when the strike price is greater than the underlying. The reverse is true for puts. When you buy an option, your level of loss is limited to the option’s price, or premium. When you sell a na...

Telsa raises as analysit predicting $500 a share

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Analyst Ben Kallo at W.R. Baird on Wednesday reiterated his outperform rating and $386 price target on Tesla (TSLA) but added that if all goes smoothly with its Model 3 production and rollout targets, the stock should trade above $500 a share. Tesla shares closed up $6.36, or 2.1% at $310.22. "We continue to believe a successful Model 3 launch will be an inflection point for the stock and recommend owning shares into the launch," Kallo told clients in the note. "We outline a path to a >$500 TSLA share price, which we believe is feasible if management achieves its stated targets." Kallo added that at $500 a share Tesla's market cap would be more than $80 billion. The note stands in stark contrast to a note published May 11 by Goldman Sachs, which soothed the anguish of burned short sellers by keeping its sell rating on the technology darling and set a $190 target for the shares. That translates into an expectation by Goldman that the stock, currently at ...