Why Simple Put Options Buying Fail In Volatile Markets
The recent stock market crisis (2008) has a lot of people thinking that big money can be made simply by buying put options but that cannot be farther from the truth. Why does simple put options buying fail in volatile markets?
Option trading, stock options, Options trading, investment
The [...]

How Option Trading Profit In Any Market Conditions
Learn exactly how you can profit when stocks are up, when stocks are down and when stocks are sideways using option trading!
Option trading, options trading, call option, put option, option strategies
All stock market multi millionaires must be able to profit under any kind of market conditions. If you [...]

Option Spreads: Putting the Odds in Your Favor
by Rick Thachuk
[ A version of this article appears in the Feb 2000 issue of Futures magazine. ]
Option spreads, created by buying an option and simultaneously selling a related option, are seldom the choice investment vehicle of position traders, especially beginning traders, largely because of their intuitive [...]

Which Option to Buy?
by Rich Thachuk
Buying options on futures has the advantage of limiting downside risk. The most you can lose on an option purchase is the cost of the option (including commissions), and that’s all. If you think that the price of a commodity, say, corn is going to rise, then buy call options [...]

Buying Options
by Rick Thachuk
Beginning traders often are urged to limit their initial trading activity to the purchase of options - buying a call option if prices are expected to rise and buying a put option if prices are expected to fall. Options have the primary advantage of limiting downside risk: For any option that is [...]