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The Great Option Blog: What's New @ Great Option Trading Strategies

The Great Option Blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the Great Option Trading Strategies website.

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Secular Bear Market, Secular Bull Market, Bull and Bear Market

Secular Bear Market Investing: investing in individual, high quality, dividend paying and dividend growing companies is always a sound strateg, but it's essential during secular bear markets.

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Volatility Risk, Volatility vs Risk, Volatility and Risk

Volatility Risk - How the risk of volatility differs between investors and traders.

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The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide

The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide: Accelerate your investments and grow richer faster. All for less than the price of dinner.

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Best Option Strategies

In your own quest for the best option strategies, the biggest potential mistake you want to eliminate beforehand is adopting a trading or investing philosophy that doesn’t actually suit you.

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Portfolio Rebalancing, Long Term Investing, Dividend Growth Investing

In a piece he wrote about portfolio rebalancing on Seeking Alpha, Joseph Shaefer of Stanford Wealth Management made some provocative comments about buy and hold investing. Here's my response.

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Marty Whitman at Columbia Investment Management Conference - 2/27/2010

Gurufocus.com has a piece featuring famed value investor Marty Whitman at the Columbia Investment Management Conference on 2/27/2010.

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Retirement Investment Options, What is Investing, Option Trading Strategies

When it comes to retirement investment options, I believe there are basically three categories of choices that determine what kind of retirement we're going to have.

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Investing in Index Funds, Long Term Investing, Self Directed Investing

There are what I consider to be three major drawbacks to investing in index funds.

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Rolling Down and Out - Adjusting a Naked Put Position

Here's a real example of rolling down and out to adust a short, or naked, put position I wrote on INTC.

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Performance of MLPs in Q4 2009

Here's a piece from Tickerspy's Owen Vater discussing the performance and run up of MLPs in the 4th quarter based on recent SEC filings by institutional investors.

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Updated Buffett Holdings - 4Q 2009

Hot off the presses - Berkshire Hathaway's SEC filings detailing changes to the company's equity holdings.

Buffett reduced holdings in COP, JNJ, PG, and XOM while increasing stakes in BDX, IRM, RSG, and WFC.

For more details and analysis . . .

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Option Adjustment Strategies and Option Adjustment Examples

Whenever I come across good examples of an option adjustment strategies, I like to write a page about it. Theoretical examples are OK, but I find that real world examples make better illustrations.

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Rolling Down - An Option Adjustment Example

Please note: this is an example of rolling down an option position (short or naked put) for illustration purposes. It shouldn't be construed as a specific trading or investing recommendation.

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Dividend Stock Investing, Dividend Investing, Stocks That Pay Dividends

Dividend stock investing is simply investing in stocks that pay dividends. But which are the best dividend stocks?

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Divided Government, the Stock Market, and Long Term Investing

As a long term investor in the stock market, I long for divided government.

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Long Term Investing, Quality Investing, Stock Investing Advice

Although stock options are short term instruments, there are powerful advantages to using them for long term investing.

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Trading Stock Options Q&A, Question About Options

The Trading Stock Options Q&A Page is a collection of discussions involving, and responses to, a variety of questions related to option trading.

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Interest and Options, Writing Puts, Option Income

Question: Interest and Options - Do I get charged interest for writing puts?

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Option Income, The Hidden Risk of Option Income Trading, Option Trading

I certainly have nothing against option income, but there's a hidden risk involved in these kind of option trading strategies that the individual would do well to guard against.

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About Great Option Trading Strategies, Option Trading, Long Term Investing

About Great Option Trading Strategies

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