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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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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How to Profit from the New Volatility Bull Market
There's always a bull market somewhere. Right now, the biggest one is in volatility. Here's how to profit from the volatility bull market.
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Using Buy-Writes to Generate Income
Using Buy-Writes (also known as covered calls) to generate income is a safe way to create yield in this market—it's as close to free money as you can find.
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Selling Calls
Many of us are holding personal stock positions that have taken a beating this year. If you are long too many stocks in the wrong sector, the pain has been extreme. So how can you start to "dig out" of these holes? can...
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Call Selling
Cabot Options Trader Editor Jacob Mintz on how selling calls through volatility can be a powerful tool.
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Time Decay
The market will be closed on Monday in celebration of Labor Day, so if the market does not make a big move tomorrow, the price of options will get hit extremely hard. Why do options lose significant amounts of value ahead of a weekend?...
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Earnings Trading: Netflix Example
I thought I would let you see the mental exercise that I do when deciding on an earnings trade. The big stock with earnings to be released this evening is Netflix (NFLX).
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Cabot Analyst Jacob Mintz on Options Trading
From iron condors to bull put spreads, Jacob Mintz, editor of Cabot Options Trader, highlights a variety of options strategies, and discusses some trading positions on his buy list.
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Time Decay at Holidays
All options are a wasting asset whose time value erodes to zero by expiration. This erosion is known as time decay.
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