Options for Your Options: Why We Added a Second Options Guru
With the addition of Andy Crowder, Cabot Wealth Network now has an options dual threat that gives you wide exposure to any type of trading.
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Why Weekly Options Are Like Gambling
Contrary to popular belief, options trading is a good way to reduce risk. Weekly options? That's more akin to a roll of the dice.
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How to Use Bear Call Spreads in a Volatile Market
Bear call spreads are a great way to profit in a down market like this one. Here's how they work - with a trade example using the SPY ETF.
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Answering 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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Options Trading Terminology
Options trading has its own vernacular. To get started with the basics of trading options, it’s important to familiarize yourself with options trading terminology. (This will also come in handy when you are reading Cabot Options Trader, my premium options advisory service, or the brand Cabot...
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Cabot Launches 5 Additional Options Advisories, from Legendary Investor Andy Crowder
Andy Crowder has been making investors money for over two decades with his unique options trading approach. Now, he joins the Cabot team!
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Buy-Writes vs. Naked Puts in Options Trading
Buy-writes, also known as covered calls, are one of the general public’s most popular options trading strategies. Selling naked puts (the sale of a put in an stock or index without a stock position), on the other hand, is feared by the general as...
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How to Sell Covered Calls to Create Portfolio Yield
With interest rates near zero, you need to get creative to find yield. One way to do it is to sell covered calls. Here's how it works.
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Three Simple Options Strategies to Hedge Your Portfolio
If you're worried about market volatility you have more options than simply going to cash. Here are three ways to potentially hedge a portfolio with options.
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AMZN, NFLX and The Three-Day Rule
Want to buy Netflix (NFLX) or Amazon (AMZN) or other stocks at a discount after an earnings miss? Adhere to the Three-Day Rule.
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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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Unusual Options Activity Scanner: Uncover What Big Hedge Funds Are Doing
My most successful strategy throughout my 20-year options trading career has been using my unusual option activity scanner. Here’s how it works.
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Options Order Flow
As I have written in the past, my favorite order flow signal is the repeated big buyer, for whom price is no issue. And a reader recently asked a question about order flow, and sizable trades, "How can a trader buy or sell when...
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Options Education: Five Options Trading Myths Exposed
There's a lot of mystery and misinformation out there about options trading. Here are five common misconceptions - and what the real truth is.
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What Are Call and Put Options?
What are call and put options? Jacob Mintz, our options trading expert and chief analyst of Cabot Options Trader, explains in this detailed infographic.
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Can LEAPS Investing Be a Substitute for Buying Stock?
LEAPS can be a useful investing strategy for longer-term speculative investments but the question today is: Can leaps investing be used as a substitute for buying the underlying stock?
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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 Use Covered Calls to Make Money in Sideways Markets
The market has entered something of a choppy correction. But if you know how to use covered calls, you can boost your profits quickly.
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Try Poor Man’s Covered Calls to Make Monthly Income in Gold
Want to trade covered calls but don't want to buy 100 shares of stock? Try poor man's covered calls. And use them to trade this gold ETF.
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Should I Pay Off My Mortgage, or Put that Cash in the Stock Market?
I want to pay off my mortgage early, but there are pros and cons to doing so. And if you're an options trader, there's a better alternative.
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