2008 Archives | 2007 Archives | 2006 Archives | 2005 Archives | 2004 Archives 12/27/2005 - Selling Covered Calls: Getting Cash for Stocks You Already Own
In Issue #270, Lee Lowell introduces investors to selling covered calls, a strategy that will make some nice sideline income on your stocks, giving you something to show for them. 12/22/2005 - Emerging Markets: Forget the Great Wall of China - Let's Go Shopping
In Issue #269, Karim Rahemtulla weighing the differences between the commerce of the USA and the emerging markets of China, the land of cheap eyeware. 12/20/2005 - Principal Protection: How to "Defend" Your Principal From a 50% "Bomb"
In Issue #268, Steve McDonald prepares investors for the inevitable dips and downs of the market and what you can do to protect your principal when your trades go south. 12/15/2005 - Option Credit Spreads: Sell First, Buy Second for 50% Better Odds
In Issue #267, Lee Lowell explains why the short side of options can be much more profitable than the long by using option credit spreads. 12/13/2005 - A Bond Play: Now, Something Completely Different
In Issue #266, Karim Rahemtulla appreciates a bond play when watching Bill Gross' stance on interest rates. hoping that the Fed will stop raising them in the next few months. 12/08/2005 - Derivatives: Take the Big Guys' Money With Their Own Weapons
In Issue #265, Karim Rahemtulla implores traders not to fear derivatives by becoming more educated investors. 12/06/2005 - Back-Testing Strategy: 1.8 Billion Ways to Improve Your Trades
In Issue #264, Dean Albrecht gives details about a back-testing strategy using historic data that can help to improve your future option trades. 12/02/2005 - Position Sizing Safeguards: Prevent Corporate Lies From "Cooking" Your Portfolio
In Issue #263, Karim Rahemtulla reveals that investors are sometimes prey for corrupt corporations, but by using position sizing within your trades you can control your own portfolio’s fate. 11/29/2005 - Options Leverage: How to Use Delta to Maximize Your Leverage
In Issue #262, Lee Lowell illuminates us on using the battle-axe of the financial world, leverage, and how applying this criterion can be one of the most intelligent things you can do with your money. 11/22/2005 - Option Prices: How to Get the Best Price on Your Options
In Issue #261, Steve McDonald discusses three ways to get the best option prices around when talking to your option broker. 11/18/2005 - Trading Index Options: Two Ways To Profit
In Issue #260, Steve McDonald shows traders how to sleep better at night by trading index options, like straddles and strangles. 11/15/2005 - How to Use Puts and Calls: For Systematic Short-Term Profits
In Issue #259, Karim Rahemtulla confers how the uncertainty of the market is conducive to short-term put and call trading and how you can profit from it. 11/10/2005 - Limit Order Diligence: How to Limit Your "Excitement" for Winning Trades
In Issue #258, Karim Rahemtulla explains why patience is a virtue when using limit orders to get the best prices. 11/08/2005 - Options Strangle Tips: Strangle Tips From a 515% Gain
In Issue #257, Steve McDonald teaches how to line up a good option strangle, taking into account price, volume and volatility and when it's the best time to strike. 11/04/2005 - Market Maker Downtime: How to Make $1,000 On a Slow Day In the Options Pit
In Issue #256, Lee Lowell explains that it's not always about cut-throat, high-speed money-moving down in the pits. 11/02/2005 - Out-of-the-Money Options: Buyer Beware, Seller... Take The Money
In Issue #255, Lee Lowell talks about selling out-of-the-money options in order to take in nice premiums and have a chance to buy at cheaper prices while allowing risk management to be set in place. 10/27/2005 - Derivatives Markets: "Textbook" Trades Don't Always Win
In Issue #254, Karim Rahemtulla teaches real-life investment lessons about the derivatives markets that aren't covered in any textbooks. 10/25/2005 - Options Trading Strategy: To Find the Perfect Option
In Issue #253, Dean Albrecht instructs on how to narrow your focus in your options trading strategy by honing in and isolating trading opportunities in a sensible way. 10/20/2005 - How the Market Makers Lose: Uneven Trades and Open Positions
In Issue #252, Lee Lowell examines two issues that can wreak havoc on the option market makers: "one-way" positions and "pin risk." Continuing his Market Maker series, Lee shares some of the hardships these traders face in their day-to-day operations. 10/18/2005 - Options Straddle: Using A Straddle to Harness "Uncertainty"
In Issue #251, Steve McDonald explains how an options straddle can be used effectively to remain in the market, with limited risk, when a stocks direction is uncertain. 10/13/2005 - Two Days at the "Center of the Options World"
In Issue #250, Karim Rahemtulla appreciates the Agora Wealth Options Conference and what you missed if you didn't attend. 10/11/2005 - Position Sizing: The Most Powerful Investment Concept in the World
In Issue #249, Karim Rahemtulla illuminates us as to the two rules of investing and how to control our losses by staying even with the market through the most fundamental lesson: position sizing.
10/07/2005 - Bull Spreads: Bagging a 66% Return on Lexar
In Issue #248, Karim Rahemtulla chats about profits taken on a LEAP bull spread and how it works.
10/04/2005 - Fair Value Sheets: Quote, Trade and Hedge... In Less Than 30 Seconds
In Issue #247, Lee Lowell focuses on the actual mechanics of what happens when an option order hits the pit, and how to read a fair value sheet in order to get in on the action.
09/29/2005 - Short-Term Options: Two Ways to Make Them Work
In Issue #246, Karim Rahemtulla converses about the good and bad points of short-term option trading. 09/27/2005 - Implied Volatility: The Impact of Beta on Your Option Positions
In Issue #245, Mark Whistler sheds some light on the beta of options and how implied volatility can impact your open positions. 09/23/2005 - Event Driven Markets: The ONE Case for Using Short-Term Options
In Issue #244, Karim Rahemtulla explains why short-term options should only be used in event driven markets, such as during hurricane season.
09/20/2005 - Market Maker Survival: The Options Pit "Caste System" Revealed
In Issue #243, Lee Lowell talks about the breakdown of how a market maker thinks, acts and survives when an option order hits the pit. 09/16/2005 - Smart Profits Quiz: Test Your Options Knowledge
In Issue #242, Karim Rahemtulla has prepared a short Smart Profits quiz in order to put your knowledge to the test and see if you have retained any of the information he has shared these past issues. 09/10/2005 - Market Makers: Hand Signals, Stress and Million-Dollar Trades
In Issue #241, Lee Lowell enlightens us about the market maker, specifically how they get paid, where they fit in to the options world in relation to you and why you should understand this in order to consistently make money with options.
08/30/2005 - Naked Options: Words of Caution for a Lucrative Options Strategy
In Issue #238, Karim Rahemtulla introduces naked options and why this option strategy could either make you nice profits or treat you to some huge losses. 08/26/2005 - Market Maker Manipulation: Are Market Makers Playing Games With Our Profits?
In Issue #237, Karim Rahemtulla shoots the breeze about past trades only to watch the market maker manipulate his profits and how to "limit" this from happening to you. 08/24/2005 - Stock Options Books: How to Get the World's Best Options Book - Free
In Issue #236, Karim Rahemtulla recognizes the best stock options book around and how you can get it for free.
08/11/2005 - Battle With Your Broker: Make Your First Trade In Three Easy Steps
In Issue #233, Karim Rahemtulla gives further details about finding a brokerage that is right for you as well as a few techniques to use in order to the the treatment you deserve. 08/09/2005 - How To Effectively Handle Any Broker: Secrets to Getting Started In Options
In Issue #232, Karim Rahemtulla sheds light on more effective dealings with brokers for both the inexperienced and the long-time investors when opening an options account. 08/02/2005 - EMinis & ETFs: "Trade" E-Minis With Less Risk Using ETFs
In Issue #230, Lee Lowell chews the fat about E-minis and ETFs and how you can tailor your risk/reward levels to a greater degree by using options on smaller indexes within the markets.
07/28/2005 - Option Position Sizing: How Much to Invest In Each Option Trade
In Issue #229, Karim Rahemtulla speaks more about position sizing and the differences in his covered call and LEAPS services that allow subscribers to allocate towards entire strategies and not just specific trades. 07/26/2005 - Fundamental Analysis: Three Screens For Technical Traders
In Issue #228, Dean Albrecht informs readers of three helpful indicators used in his fundamental analysis that can increase your chances of options success. 07/21/2005 - Position Sizing: The Most Powerful Investment Concept in the World
In Issue #227, Karim Rahemtulla illuminates us as to the two rules of investing and how to control our losses by staying even with the market instead of trying to get even through the most fundamental lesson: position sizing.
07/19/2005 - Hedging & Speculating: How to Enjoy Guaranteed Monthly Income With Options
In Issue #226, Lee Lowell gives a quick tutorial on hedging and speculating with options and how these can help generate more cash flow income. 07/15/2005 - Options Risk Management: How To Know What You're Risking
In Issue #225, Dean Albrecht covers options risk management, including how placing an options call can have insurance-like qualities that can help mitigate some of the risk. 07/12/2005 - Options On ETFs: Increased Safety and Profit Potential
In Issue #224, Dean Albrecht reveals why it may be best to trade options on correlated instruments, like ETFs, rather than buying or selling options on stocks themselves when looking for a better advantage. 07/08/2005 - LEAP Option Investing: The Best Options Play on eBay
In Issue #223, Karim Rahemtulla talks more about LEAPS option investing, compares with short term trades, when bad press about companies you are investing in comes to light. 06/30/2005 - Using a Probability Calculator: Know Your Trade's Exact Chance of Success Up Front
In Issue #221, Lee Lowell shows in detail how to use a probability calculator for contemplating which options to watch, especially for straddle plays, allowing better chances for successful trades. 06/28/2005 - Option Trading Recommendations: What Investment "Gurus" Do When No One's Looking
In Issue #220, Karim Rahemtulla spells out exactly what investment gurus do during the work-week and why they live, eat and breath option trading recommendations for your benefit. 06/24/2005 - Learning Options Trading: How to Increase Your Options Understanding Ten-fold
In Issue #219, The Mt. Vernon Research Team clarifies our last report about trusting your gut and gives key points about learning options trading that will help build your investing knowledge. 06/21/2005 - Option Pitfalls: Avoid These Five Options "Red Flags"
In Issue #218, The Mt. Vernon Research Team encourages traders not to get wrapped up in avoidable option pitfalls and to trust their "gut instinct."
06/16/2005 - The Chicago Board of Options Exchange: The Website Every Options Trader Should Know
In Issue #217, Karim Rahemtulla prepares you to do battle in the options arena by giving out some great websites, like the CBOE, that will help to up your options arsenal. 06/13/2005 - Spread Trades & The Market Maker: Two Valuable Options Lessons From Boston
In Issue #216, Karim Rahemtulla shares two of his favorite and most profitable secrets, the art of the spread trade and what market makers really do. 06/09/2005 - Index Options: A Billionaire's Trading Tool Anyone Can Use
In Issue #215, Karim Rahemtulla expands on the facts that index options aren't just tied to individual stocks, these days traders can use options to do just about anything within their portfolio. 06/07/2005 - Technical Analysis: Two Simple Tools for Spotting a Technical Trend
In Issue #214, The Mt. Vernon Research Team relates that by learning some basic technical analysis, traders can focus on working with the market instead of against it. 06/01/2005 - Options Trading Tools: The Six Key Tools for Trading Options
In Issue #213, Lee Lowell gives further details about various option trading tools, lik free and paid websites that traders can use to their advantage in order to make their job of finding a great option trade a heck of a lot easier.
05/26/2005 - Beating the Market Makers: Never Pay Full Price
In Issue #212, Karim Rahemtulla talks about how the market makers affect the full price of options, what that means for you and how you can beat them. 05/24/2005 - Maximum Fear: How to Turn "Maximum Fear" Into Maximum Profits
In Issue #211, Dean Albrecht recognizes that fear and greed inspire most trades and shows us how to recognize a maximum fear day that could help you make sizable gains. 05/17/2005 - Options Books for Serious Traders
In Issue #209, Karim Ramhemtulla points out a few great books to get you started in understanding options as well other books for those of you already trading. 05/02/2005 - Market Maker Tactics: What Market Makers Really Do?
In Issue #205, Lee Lowell puts in plain words exactly what market makers are up to and though you may not realize it, their tactics are not out to get you. 04/28/2005 - Options Strangle: How to Strangle Profits Out of an Imperfect Market
In Issue #204, The Mt. Vernon Research Team illuminates traders on the strangle strategy, a little-known option technique but a definite moneymaker. 04/26/2005 - Straddle Options: Using a Straddle for Safe, Double-Digit Gains in a Cagey Market
In Issue #203, The Mt. Vernon Research Team speaks about the ease at which traders can use the straddle option to get more bang for their buck. 04/20/2005 - Stock Options: How to Buy $2,446 Worth of MSFT for $1,270
In Issue #202, Lee Lowell emphasizes why traders can get more bang for their buck when purchasing stock options insead of stocks outright. 04/18/2005 - What Does Bill Gross Know?
In Issue #201, Karim Rahemtulla follows the lead of Bill Gross and shows us which funds maybe the better choices for your money.
04/14/2005 - Volume: Reading Volume to Find 20% Gains... In 45 Minutes
In Issue #200, The Mt. Vernon Research Team interprets how volume can affect both sides of a trade, for both the sellers and the buyers. 04/12/2005 - Why Choose A Full-Service Broker: Get Your Option Prices Filled Every Time
In Issue #199, Karim Rahemtulla expounds the difference between full-service and discount brokers and why the former may be the best bet for your options portfolio.
04/07/2005 - Option Losses: How to Grow Rich From Your Options Losses
In Issue #198, Karim Rahemtulla gives us a great example as to why LEAPS aren't just a speculative strategy, but how they can cut back on your option losses. 04/05/2005 - Bear Spreads: Truly Risk-Free Profits Shorting Crude Oil
In Issue #197, Karim Rahemtulla tells us how to get that free lunch through the art of the bear spread. 03/31/2005 - Stocks With No Options: A Cautionary Tale About TZOO
In Issue #196, Karim Rahemtulla informs traders why stocks with no options behind them probably aren't an option that you would want to consider even looking into.
03/25/2005 - How I Use ESP to Make Millions for My Clients
In Issue #194, Dean Albrecht shares a computer program that he has created and it's literally generated millions of dollars in profits for subscribers so far. Calling it the "ESP Profit System," ESP stands for...
03/21/2005 - Position Sizing: The Most Powerful Investment Concept
In Issue #193, Karim Rahemtulla explains that while confidence may be key in option trading, there is certainly never a sure thing in the realm of investing, hence position sizing. 03/16/2005 - Trading Options 101: An Options Secret From a 20-Year Trading Veteran
In Issue #192, Karim Rahemtulla recalls his first days of trading options and the fear that almost stopped him from jumping in head-first to the lucrative world of options. 03/14/2005 - Market Maker Bids: Outmaneuvering the Market Maker's "Hidden Bid"
In Issue #191, Karim Rahemtulla explores the realm of the market maker's "hidden bid" and how to turn the tables on the them to garner better profits for yourself. 03/07/2005 - ISE's IPO: Finding Value In ISE's Upcoming IPO
In Issue #189, Karim Rahemtulla chews the fat about IPOs and as well as why investors must be prepared to accept very large risks for the possibility of large gains. 03/03/2005 - Understanding Options Risk: How to Beat the "Volatility Premium" on Options
In Issue #188, The Mt. Vernon Research Team explains why understanding options risk is key by watching historical and implied volatility, or beta, in the markets. 03/01/2005 - Options Trading Experts: A Meeting of the World's Top Options Traders
In Issue #187, Karim Rahemtulla gives further details about why it's better to make an educated decision about your options trading experts rather than succumb to a high pressure sales pitch.
02/23/2005 - Option Volatility: A Free Tool for Finding the Best Option Bargains
In Issue #186, Lee Lowell explains how to read option volatility as well as the six key factors set by exchanges. 02/17/2005 - Derivatives: Take the Big Guys' Money With Their Own Weapons
In Issue #185, Karim Rahemtulla implores traders not to fear derivatives by becoming more educated investors. 02/15/2005 - Limit Orders vs. Naked Put Selling: Getting Paid to Place Them On Your Favorite Stock
In Issue #184, Lee Lowell gives insight about the differences between using limit orders versus naked put selling when hunting for easy market gains. 02/09/2005 - Technical Indicators: How to Overcome the "Evil Twins of Trading"
In Issue #183, The Mt. Vernon Research Team takes an earnest look at how technical indicators can affect two major timing problems that most investors may find themselves a part of. 02/02/2005 - Basic Trading Rules: The Four Rules of All "Smart Money"
In Issue #181, Karim Rahemtulla ponders why fifth-graders can understand the four basic trading rules of options when most adults don't seem to know they exist. 01/31/2005 - Deep-In-The-Money Covered Calls: How to Beat Stocks with Less Risk
In Issue #180, Karim Rahemtulla reveals the secret strategy behind deep-in-the-money covered calls within his trading service. 01/27/2005 - Breakout & Resistance: How to Anticipate and Profit From These Twin Concepts
In Issue #179, The Mt. Vernon Research Team spells out the differences between the charting analysis concepts of breakout and resistance. 01/24/2005 - Become A Better Trader: Small Changes You Can Make For Big Profits
In Issue #178, The Mt. Vernon Research Team converses about a few critical hints to becoming a better trader. 01/20/2005 - LEAP Options: The Intel Bargain & A Potential 566% Return
In Issue #177, Karim Rahemtulla explains the reasons behind LEAP options and why this is a good strategy for buying companies cheap. 01/18/2005 - Options Flyer: Three Rules for Profiting from an Options "Flyer"
In Issue #176, Karim Rahemtulla points out when it's a good time to take risks using an options flyer in the markets. 01/13/2005 - Limit Prices: Tip the Odds on Options Trades In Your Favor
In Issue #175, Karim Rahemtulla speaks about limit prices and their extreme importance that can make a positive effect on your trading habits. 01/11/2005 - Profiting From Crude Oil: In the Age of "Perpetual Shock"
In Issue #174, Karim Rahemtulla hands over the reins to Steve Belmont to enligthten us about that sweet, sweet crude. 01/07/2005 - Option Losses: How to Grow Rich From Your Options Losses
In Issue #173, Karim Rahemtulla admits to defeat but realizes that they can be both educational and therapeutic for future options trades. 01/04/2005 - Reading Option Chains: The "Fail Safe" Trading Signals Revealed
In Issue #172, The Mt. Vernon Research Team talks about the fundamentals used when watching option chains and picking the underlying stocks of options that you follow. 2008 Archives | 2007 Archives | 2006 Archives | 2005 Archives | 2004 Archives | 
