OPTIONS TRADING EXPLAINED

Diversify Your Options Universe Audio 

Diversity makes the world go 'round, and the same is true of your portfolio.
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Selecting Your Strike Price

Deciding which strike prices to use can be difficult. Randy Frederick explains how to choose strike prices according to you level of bullishness or bearishness.
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Putting Options to Work

Once you have a grasp of the basics, it's time to put some simple options strategies to work. Randy Frederick covers how to use long and short calls and puts.
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Time, Price and an Option's Profitability

It's one thing to bet on a stock making a $5 move. It's another thing entirely to expect it to happen in too short a period of time. Learn why some options finish in-the-money and others don't.
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Top 10 Novice Trading Mistakes

It's exciting to start growing your investment 'pot of gold.' But it could get emptied quickly if you don't protect your starting capital.
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Learning the Earnings Cycle

Quarterly earnings reports provide regularly scheduled opportunities for options traders to profit.
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Dawn Pennington

Profits on the Horizon

Horizontal spreads are a great option tool when you believe you know the direction a stock will move, but it's not clear exactly when.

Time, Price and an Option's Profitability

It's one thing to bet on a stock making a $5 move. It's another thing entirely to expect it to happen in too short a period of time. Learn why some options finish in-the-money and others don't.

Learning the Earnings Cycle

Quarterly earnings reports provide regularly scheduled opportunities for options traders to profit.

'Spread' Your Wings

If you are familiar with buying calls and puts, we'll show you how to buy them even cheaper.

Understanding Options Expiration

Just because a stock has options available for trading doesn't mean that there are options available to trade in each calendar month ... at a particular time.