- When to Use a Bear Call Spread
- 2 Recession Busters, 2 Busted Stocks
- Is Retail a Buy?
- Top 6 Stocks to Own for the Rest of 2009
- WARNING: The Market is Headed Off a Cliff
- Vertical Spreads 101
- Trading Option Straddles During Earnings Season
- Managing Risk Using Options
- 4 Ways to Generate Instant Options Profits
- The 5 Scariest Stocks to Have in Your Portfolio
- 7 Home Run Options Trades
- The Way to Make Money in This Jobless Recovery
- Omnicare Bulls: What Are You People Smoking?
- Don't End Up a Day Late and a Dollar Short
- The Answer to the Age-old Question: Fundamental vs. Technical Analysis?
- Debit Spreads vs. Credit Spreads
- IPOs are Back! Hot Company, Hot Sector, Hot Chart
- New to Currencies? Start Here
- The Right Way to Invest in IPOs
- How to Profit if the Market Goes Up … or Down
- Cephalon: A Tough Pill to Swallow
- 3 Hottest Trades in 3 Hot Sectors
- Use Trendlines to Predict the Market's Next Move
- Why You Want to Invest in IPOs NOW!
- Why Watching the News Can Hurt Your Trading
- How to Buy Stocks at a Discount
- How to Avoid Getting Screwed Trading Currencies
- 10 Reasons the Economy Will NOT Recover in 2010
- An IPO You Can't Afford to Pass Up
- The Safest Way to Short the Homebuilders
- 'CAT' About to be Let Out of the Bag
- Is Your Money Safe From Broker Risk?
- 6 Cheap Options Trades on Expensive Stocks
- Triple Your Money in These Trades
- 4 Benefits of Selling Options
- Beware of 'Frankenstein ETFs'
- 5 Reasons You Shouldn't Bank on This Rally Lasting
- 8 Ways to Reduce Your Commission Costs
- A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to Profit in Gold
- 2 ETFs to Profit Whichever Way the Market Goes
- Will HAL Bust Through the September Highs?
- 6 Top-Rated Stocks to Buy Now
- Trade Options With 'Fun' Money
- Writing Options: Put and Call Writing Explained
- Binary Options: An Investment to Avoid (For Now)
- Should Investors Be Worried About October?
- The Secret to Market-Beating Returns
- Understanding How Implied Volatility Affects Options Traders: Part Two
- When Should You Cash Out?
- Breakout in INFY Almost a Sure Thing
- How to Pick the Right Put Option
- Understanding How Implied Volatility Affects Options Traders: Part Three
- Short This Homebuilder Now
- Use Implied Volatility to Select the Right Option
- Hedge Your Portfolio With Bear Spreads
- How to Improve Your Timing
- Cheap Options Aren't Always a Smart Buy
- 5 Ways to Survive the Rest of the Year
- Could We See a Monster Run-up in JBL?
- How to Combine Conservative and Speculative Strategies for Maximum Profit
- 10 Touchdown Options Trades
- Will the Fed Bring Down the Market?
- Don't Miss the Boat on These 3 Options Trades
- How Delta Can Make You Millions
- Buying Insurance on Your Stocks
- How to Take on a Bigger Position for the Same Amount of Risk
- Writing Covered Calls
- Stay Clear of the Financials
- How to Avoid Going Broke
- Housing Stocks Climbing 'Wall of Worry'
- 10 Reasons the Market Could Crash in October
- Why You Should Never Trade a Stock or ETF Again
- Plan Your Exits Before You Make the Trade
- Understanding How Implied Volatility Affects Options Traders
- The Breakdown on How to Play Breakouts, Pullbacks
- 10 Sectors in Need of a Government Bailout
- FedEx May Deliver Some Quick Profits
- How Much Do You Really Have at Risk?
- Invest Internationally With LEAPS Options
- 10 Things You MUST Know Before Shorting a Stock
- Short of the Week: Tiffany & Co. (TIF)
- How GLD Can Protect Your Portfolio Against Inflation
- Top 9 Stocks to Trade This Fall
- Options: What Your Broker Doesn't Want You to Know
- 2 Powerful Ways to Profit With Options
- 3 Golden Option Opportunities
- Why You Should Be Mad as Hell at the Financial Media
- Make Big Money in Underpriced Options
- How to Double Your Money on 3 Top Biotech Stocks
- Campbell Soup (CPB): Mmm, Mmm Good?
- 6 of the Best Stocks to Buy Now
- Short of the Week: Buy Calls on the SKF
- Don't Miss the Bull Run in Gold
- ETFs vs. ETNs: Which is Better?
- The Difference Between Winning and Losing Traders
- Technical Analysis IQ Test (Include)
- Technical Analysis IQ Test
- Recent Volatility Got You Spooked? Try Spreads
- How to Profit From an Explosive Chart Formation
- Individual Investors Get Smacked by ETF Regulations
- Airline Stocks Grounded by the 200-Day
- Short of the Week: ISRG
- Top Money Show Trades
- Learning Options Lingo: Contingent Orders
- The Best Health Care Stock (No Matter What Congress Decides)
- Closing Out Option Trades for Triple-Digit Profits
- The Best Call Options to Buy on 3 Breakout Stocks
- 5 Tips for Moving Your Brokerage Account
- Medtronic Poised to Jump After Earnings
- 5 Dead-End Retail Stocks to Short
- Technical Analysis 101: Buying Pressure
- The Best Way to Short the Banks
- Use Limit Orders on Options Trades
- What is a Call Option?
- The Art of Technical Analysis
- The Truth Behind Broker Commissions
- 4 Stocks: 1 Hot, 3 Not
- Brokerage Levels and Option Risk
- What is a Put Option?
- 3 Hot Technical Trades
- 5 Stocks You Shouldn't Ignore
- How to Play the Great China Crash
- 3 Options Trades You'll Get Paid to Make
- Option Approval Levels Explained
- Learn This Lesson Once and Profit Many Times Over
- Why Cash for Clunkers is NOT a Good Investment Opportunity
- 5 Ways to Tell a Stock is Headed Up
- Opening Your Options Trading Account
- How to Simplify Your Investments
- Bet On This Earnings Superstar
- 2 Bank Stocks That Could Lead the Market Down
- Stocks vs. ETFs: What's the Better Investment?
- 3 Ways to Short Treasuries
- Is Your Brokerage Right for You?
- Turn Your Deltas Into Dollars
- Paper Trading: Practice Makes Perfect
- 5 Top-Notch Technical Trades
- How to Sell at the Right Time
- How Much Money Should You Risk?
- Cephalon Doesn't Have the Right Medicine
- 5 Rules for Making Big Profits Shorting Stocks
- The Best Way to Short the Auto Industry
- A Closer Look at Shorting Calls
- 3 Steps for Surviving the Summer Trading Madness
- Broker Review: optionsXpress
- 10 Summer Blockbuster Options Trades
- Express Scripts -- Just What the Doctor Ordered
- Earnings Trades: 4 Stocks Set to Take Wall Street by Surprise
- Time to Get Bullish
- The Most Important Lesson for Options Traders
- How to Cash in on the ETF Craze
- Selling Short Puts vs. Covered Calls
- Will Altria Get Smoked After Earnings?
- Why This Rally Can't Last
- The Best Alternative Energy Stocks Out There
- Options Pricing: Bid-Ask Spread
- Understanding Delta in Options
- The Best Way to Short Stocks
- How to Profit Like a Hedge Fund
- 6 Bargain Biotech Stocks
- Short of the Week: C
- For Harley-Davidson, The Ride is Over
- Expiration, Exercise and Assignment
- 5 Ways Twitter Can Make You a Better Trader
- Google Getting 'Binged'?
- When to Exit an Options Trade: Don't Gamble Away Your Profits
- 3 Ways to Diversify Your Portfolio
- 6 Trades to Double Your Money by the End of Summer
- Profit From Inflation: 3 Ways to Short Bonds
- FDO Technicals Could Spell Profits
- Finding the Best ETFs to Trade
- Broker Review: tradeMONSTER
- Short the Market: 9 Ways to Profit From the Market's Fall
- 6 Tech Stocks to Own Now
- Trading Where You Think Prices Won't Go
- 10 Commandments for Successful Options Trading
- 7 Ways to Hedge Against Inflation
- The Market Will Drop Fast -- Don't Waste Another Second
- Business IT Spending Stabilizing
- 3 Best Sectors for an Economic Recovery
- 9 Father's Day Trades
- Broker Review: OptionsHouse
- What's the Better Agricultural Play: DBA or MOO?
- Are Puts Cheaper Than Calls?
- Make Great Expiration Day Trades
- 5 Consumer Stocks to Short
- Those Crazy Greeks
- Technical Analysis 101: Trading Volume
- Bet On the Bouncing Buck With Dollar ETFs
- The Best Trading Strategies Revealed
- Options Trading: Can You Make the Grade?
- Technical Analysis 101: Resistance and Support Levels
- Understanding the VIX and Using it to Your Advantage
- Warning: 3 Sectors That Are Dangerously Overbought
- Profit From Oil Prices With ETF Options
- Predicting Volatility With the VIX, Part III
- Enter the Dragon: 8 China and Emerging Markets Plays
- Technical Analysis 101: Cup-and-Handle Pattern
- Predicting Volatility With the VIX, Part II
- Emerging Markets: Buy Now, Short Later
TRADING IDEAS
Trading Ideas 2009
- Options News: STT, ADM November 6, 2009
- What's Hot: CVS, DPS November 5, 2009
- Sidewinder: CVS, VIA, XL November 5, 2009
- Options News: CTSH November 5, 2009
- Sidewinder: CSCO, SPY, SPLS November 4, 2009
Dawn Pennington
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.
Read This Before You Buy Another Stock
A savvy stock position can start with a single options trade.
This technique can help you breathe a sigh of relief as it aims to relieve a 'choking' portfolio.
If you are familiar with buying calls and puts, we'll show you how to buy them even cheaper.
Anatomy of a Stock Option Ticker
Option tickers may look like a bowl of alphabet soup to you, but each letter means something.
