Covered Calls on the Best Dividend Stocks for 2018
Last week, we revealed our best dividend stocks for 2017. Now I'll tell you how to increase your total return in those stocks by trading covered calls.
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Jacob Mintz
Jacob Mintz is a professional options trader and editor of Cabot Options Trader. Using his proprietary options scans, Jacob creates and manages positions in equities based on risk/reward and volatility expectations. Jacob developed his proprietary risk management system during his years as an options market maker at a top tier options trading company in Chicago.
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Articles by Jacob Mintz
This Options Barometer Tells You What the Hedge Funds Are Doing
In this topsy-turvy market, it helps to know how the big hedge funds and institutions are spending their money. This Options Barometer gives you the answer.
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Options Terminology
Options trading has its own vernacular. To know how to do it, you need to know what every options term means. Here are some of the basics.
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How to Play Earnings with Options
Below is an article I wrote a couple years ago in response to a subscribers’ question regarding options and option volatility around earnings.
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How to Play Tesla Stock with Options
Wall Street seems divided on Tesla stock, with price targets ranging from $155 to $360. Here's how to put a bullish or bearish options trade on TSLA.
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The Greatest Options Trade I Ever Saw
Let me tell you about the greatest options trade I saw in my 10 years on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) - and what I learned from it.
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How Hedge Funds Use Options to Gain Leverage
Want to know how the big institutional investors use options? Here is an example of how one trader spent $132 million on three technology stocks.
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Position Management
I’ve received a ton of great emails from subscribers over the last couple of days about huge profits this year. I’m thrilled that you are making lots of money. That said, while it’s great that we are making good money, we must remember risks...
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Position Management
I’ve received a ton of great emails from subscribers over the last couple of days about huge profits this year. I’m thrilled that you are making lots of money. That said, while it’s great that we are making good money, we must remember risks...
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Ask Me Your Options Trading Questions
Options trading can often be dismissed as too risky or too confusing. But it's time to expose some of the five biggest options trading myths.
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Three Great Questions
The S&P 500 is down 0.5% this morning, though well off the overnight lows (lower by 1.25%) following news that Gary Cohn, President Trump’s top economic advisor, is leaving his position. As the market has heated up, I’ve received many great questions from ...
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Three Great Questions
The S&P 500 is down 0.5% this morning, though well off the overnight lows (lower by 1.25%) following news that Gary Cohn, President Trump’s top economic advisor, is leaving his position. As the market has heated up, I’ve received many great questions from subscribers.
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1×2 Bull Call Spreads
As the market has rebounded just short of 2018 highs, an interesting and somewhat complex trade structure has become popular: 1x2 Bull Call Spreads.
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1×2 Bull Call Spreads
As the market has rebounded just short of 2018 highs, an interesting and somewhat complex trade structure has become popular: 1x2 Bull Call Spreads.
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Update on My Bitcoin Options Trade
Last month, I made the decision to short bitcoin. Turns out, this bitcoin options trade was one of my best investment decisions of the past year.
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Short Volatility Trades
As the market was falling apart and the VIX was exploding to multi-year highs, Cabot Options Trader Pro subscribers executed a short volatility trade, selling an Iron Condor. Here are the details of the trade and some of my commentary.
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Short Volatility Trades
As the market was falling apart and the VIX was exploding to multi-year highs, Cabot Options Trader Pro subscribers executed a short volatility trade, selling an Iron Condor. Here are the details of the trade and some of my commentary.
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My Best Option Trade for a Risky Market
My best option trade for this risky market environment reminds me a lot of my family's recent trip to Disney World. Let me explain.
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Using Options to Increase Your Portfolio Yield
There are two options strategies any investor can use to create yield that far exceeds traditional avenues: Covered Calls and Writing Puts.
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How to Short Bitcoin
Are you skeptical of the rally in bitcoin and think the cryptocurrency is long overdue for a crash? Here's how to short bitcoin and profit handsomely.
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