http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/option-trading-strategies-blog.html The Great Option Blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the Great Option Trading Strategies website. Subscribe here. en-us option trading strategies Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:51:09 GMT Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:51:09 GMT great-option-trading-strategies.com http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/free-resources.html Rather than adding to the noise, I've decided to keep this page deliberately short. I'm listing only those free resources which are truly free and which I believe to be truly superior. Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:24:59 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/trading-scams.html Option trading services don't have to engage in actual fraud for me to consider them to be trading scams. They just have to have the capacity (or likelihood) to lose their subscribers a lot of money. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:23:22 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/callwriter.html I believe CallWriter is the premiere covered call writing website for three simple but huge reasons: Trade Selection, Trade Management, and Investor Education. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:35:19 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/terry-allen.html And this is not an exaggeration - if I weren't a Leveraged Investor, I'd be a Terry Allen investor. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:20:09 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/leaps.html LEAPS, or Long Term Equity AnticiPation Securities, are really no different than regular options with the exception of having a much longer expiration horizon. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:55:28 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/dividend-reinvestment-plans.html Dividend reinvestment plans are a powerful illustration of compounding interest at work. Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:03:47 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/options-trading-services.html When it comes to options trading services, I'm very careful and selective about who and what I recommend. Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:20:38 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/value-investing.html It's essential to have a basic understanding of Value Investing if you're going to be a successful practitioner of Leveraged Investing, even as no authoritative and final definition exists for it. Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:23:05 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/leveraged-investing.html The fundamental difference between Leveraged Investing and leveraged trading is the difference between owning and controlling. Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:28:00 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/quality-investing.html Quality investing is investing in a business that consistently makes a lot of money and one that you're confident will continue to do so well into the future. Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:52:04 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/index.html A creative and profitable approach to exploring option trading strategies. Understanding options AND yourself equals dependable profits. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:46:31 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/take-a-break.html One of the more important option trading lessons Ive learned is the occasional need to take a break from the stock market. Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:49:17 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/sitemap.html Sitemap for Great Option Trading Strategies Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:30:27 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/adjusted-cost-basis.html Adopting an adjusted cost basis mindset empowers you to always acquire your stocks for a discountboth before you purchase them and afterwards. Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:13:06 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/buy-leaps.html In the end, I don't buy LEAPS because LEAP calls are still long calls, and long calls are an uphill battle. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:15:02 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/monthly-cash-flow.html There's a major problem with the idea of an options based monthly cash flow business. Only in theory can you consistently produce a steady, predictable stream of income month in and month out. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:29:54 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/long-term-investing.html Although stock options are short term instruments, there are powerful advantages to using them for long term investing. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:18:17 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/option-greeks.html Understanding the Option Greeks are important for two reasons: assessing option pricing and risk management. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:28:57 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/bear-put-spread.html The Bear Put spread is essentially a Long Put with some of the risk removed. But in exchange for this reduced risk, you're also limiting your potential profits. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:18:24 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/bull-call-spread.html The Bull Call spread is essentially a Long Call with some of the risk removed. The trade-off is that the explosive upside potential has also been removed. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:15:54 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/protective-put.html How to protect your stock position with a protective put. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:52:50 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/hedge-strategy.html Protect your portfolio with the right Hedge Strategy. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:36:54 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/bear-call-spread.html With the Bear Call Spread, you are an insurance company insuring a specific stock in another's investor's portfolio from an increase in share price. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:31:37 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/iron-condor.html The Iron Condor consists of constructing both a Bull Put Spread and a Bear Call Spread on the same underlying stock with the same expiration date. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:42:08 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/stock-option-definitions.html The essential terms and stock option definitions necessary for understanding stock options. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:20:51 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/diversification-and-options.html Diversification and options. Are there effective techniques to gain the benefits of diversification with an options portfolio? Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:11:29 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/bull-put-spread.html With the Bull Put Spread, you are an insurance company insuring a specific stock in anothers investor's portfolio from a drop in share price. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:47:21 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/covered-combo.html The Covered Combo consists of simultaneously writing a Covered Call and a Naked Put. You receive double premium, but you also may end up having to sell the stock or purchase more. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:14:14 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/naked-puts.html The implications of Writing Naked Puts is profound. For each contract you write, you're getting paid to offer to buy 100 shares at a price lower than what the stock is currently selling for. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:07:03 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/covered-calls.html Writing Covered Calls is a basic, popular, and generally conservative income-producing option trading strategy. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:15:05 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/option-income.html For the option income trader, a high percentage of smaller gains with the risk of an occasional big loss is the equation for option trading success. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:29:46 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/butterfly-option.html The Long Call Butterfly Option is comprised of overlapping Bull Call and Bear Put spreads. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:18:49 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/option-strangle.html The Option Strangle consists of buying both an ATM Call Option and an ATM Put Option (at different strike prices) and hoping for a large move in the stock in either direction. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:58:06 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/option-straddle.html The Option Straddle consists of buying both an ATM Call Option and an ATM Put Option (at the same strike price and expiration date) and hoping for a large move in the stock in either direction. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:50:27 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/long-put.html Buy 1 ITM, ATM, or OTM Put Option. And then hope like hell the stock immediately starts moving lower. That's essentially all there is to the Long Put strategy. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:17:22 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/long-call.html Buy 1 ITM, ATM, or OTM Call Option. And then hope like hell the stock immediately starts moving higher. That's essentially all there is to the Long Call strategy. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:50:46 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/trading-stock-options.html Trading stock options speculatively, for the right personality, is not only a viable choice, but the only choice. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:00:58 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/covered-put.html The best use of the Covered Put is to enhance and protect your short stock position, not as a bearish version of the Covered Call strategy. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:46:57 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/collar-option.html Using the Collar Option to insure your stock for next to nothing. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:29:07 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/put-writing.html The Super Safe Put Writing strategy is based on a point Ive made repeatedly throughout this website. Any option trading strategy can be made more risky or less risky. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:09:38 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/leap-covered-combos.html The LEAP Covered Combos to Acquire Stock strategy is a hybrid of two other Leveraged Investing strategies: the Covered Combos strategy and the LEAP Covered Calls strategy. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:00:59 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/leap-covered-calls.html The LEAP Covered Calls to Acquire Stock strategy, as you may guess, is not about maximizing income but rather about acquiring stock cheaply and efficiently. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:55:02 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/covered-call-writing.html The gist of The 1/3 Covered Call Writing Strategy is this: you only initially write covered calls on approximately one-third of your underlying stock. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:50:48 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/writing-puts.html Writing puts (Out of the Money) is an exceptionally easy and effective strategy to acquire stock at significant discounts to current prices. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:42:14 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/stock-option-investing.html Stock option investing, or Leveraged Investing, is about using options to become a better investor. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:26:03 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/option-reference.html Option Reference Page - Click on a specific option trading strategy link to visit the page for that strategy. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:36:37 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/leap-bull-call.html The LEAP Bull Call Spread, as its name suggests, is simply a bull call spread constructed with LEAP options rather than with shorter term options. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:19:19 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/covered-combos.html The Covered Combos strategy is not suitable for all portfolios. It works best with large, concentrated portfolios looking to add even more shares of the same underlying stock. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:41:06 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/triple-play-income.html There are only three things a stock can do: rise, fall, or stay flat. With the Triple Play Income Strategy, you get paid no matter what the stock does. Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:12:48 GMT http://www.great-option-trading-strategies.com/stock-options-analysis.html The Stock Options Analysis section is an area designated for various original articles and essays related to option trading and option trading strategies. Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:38:27 GMT