Using options for long term investing
By Tom Gentile Over the last several months, I’ve shown you several different options strategies that you can use to make serious money in the markets – simple call and put buys, bullish and bearish “Loophole Trades,” Straddles, and more. But the constant in each of the strategies is that they have all been relatively short-term trade set ups designed to work within 20-30 days, with options that expire in about 45 days. The mindset has been get in, get out and turn your profits pretty quickly – typically, the more efficiently you can use your capital, the better. But I recognize that a lot of you come from a longer-term, buy-and-hold background. And I understand that this shorter-term, options-based way of generating income can be a bit much to take in as quickly as one would like. So today, I’m going to show you a long-term options strategy you can use to boost your portfolio… LEAPS is an acronym for Long-term Equity AnticiPation Securities (the P is often capitalized whe...