Volatility Isn’t Always An Option Trader’s Friend
You will often hear phrases like “option traders love volatility.” This isn’t necessarily the case.
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Articles by Rick Pendergraft
Managing Options Trading Risk
Proper money management is crucial when using an options buying strategy.
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Three Factors Determine if You Make Money in the Market
These three factors are: your average win, your average loss and your winning percentage.
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You Have To Treat Options Differently
Investing in options is different than putting your money in growth stocks.
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How to Pick Your Options Trades
Check the sentiment toward the stock and measure your risk/reward ratio before making an option trade ahead of earnings.
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Is Main Street Catching on to Options?
Data shows that investors are finally realizing the advantages of investing in options.
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The Toughest Market to Analyze
The current market is not being driven by fundamental, technical or sentiment factors.
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Another U.S. Debt Downgrade?
How to profit if the United States' debt is downgraded again.
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Weighing the Evidence
I use three different types of analysis to arrive at a long-term or intermediate-term stance on the market.
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One Advantage of Options: Less Exposure
Options let you participate in the market movements with less money exposed to overall market risk.
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Why Europe May Outperform the U.S.
The resolved Greek debt crisis and the continuing U.S. debt crisis could cause European markets to outperform the U.S.
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My Outlook for the Second Half of 2011
I see the market in the second half of the year going into an upward move.
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Analysis Paralysis
How to avoid being overwhelmed by the many technical analysis tools available.
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The Phrase “It’s Different This Time” Can Be Costly
Recent readings on two sentiment indicators indicate that investors are playing with fire in the market right now.
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Sentiment Analysis: The Third Leg of the Table
Sentiment analysis is the least-used analysis method, but it may be the most useful.
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Use Options to Synthetically Trade a Stock
How to use options as investment vehicles rather than trading vehicles.
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Dispelling a Popular Myth About Options
Some of the 75% of options that expire worthless are actually designed that way.
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Understanding and Using Options
There are many ways to use options and some are less risky than stocks.
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