Option Expiration Cycles
Expiration Cycles Stock options trade in one of three quarterly cycles: January, February or March: Option Month Cycle What it really means: January Cycle …
American Express Example
Following is a 2005 research circular relating to the American Express (AXP) spin-off of Ameriprise (AMP) shares, abridged for illustration purposes. The …
Option Symbols and Expiration Cycles
The stock option symbol consists of 19 characters, all letters or numbers, which include the following information: Let’s take as an example a historical …
What Are The Top Finance Blogs?
A key to successful investing is having an informational edge over your competition of traders and investors. The best investment funds in the world employ …
Puts and Calls: Covered and Naked
Puts and calls can be naked or covered, and their deployment depends on the trader’s strategy and expectations for the underlying stock. The following …
How Are Options Values Calculated?
Main Factors Determining Option Price While a number of factors figure into option prices, stock option premiums are primarily affected by the movement of the …
Will The Stock Market Crash? (Infographic)
Will the stock market crash after a massive rally since March 2009, or does the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and NASDAQ have more to go? The …
Introduction to Options
Introduction to Options Before getting into covered calls, I have to cover some option basics. You will never master option trading until you are fluent in the …
When Will The Stock Market Crash?
Most people would claim the future is unpredictable, but is it really? Sometimes patterns emerge in stock markets that illuminate a seasonality. This is …
Why Don’t More People Write Covered Calls?
There are several reasons. For one, the general populace is largely unaware that such a thing exists. Only covered-call services such as at Markettamer.com …
The All-American Buy-and-Hold Investing Scam
Since I was a boy in the 1950s/60s, even long before, the public has been indoctrinated by Wall Street and the financial press to believe that there is one, …
How Did Robo Advisors Grow So Fast?
The growth in the robo-advisor industry has been astonishing since leading robo-advisors, such as Betterment, launched in 2008. In just a single decade, the …
3 Seasonally Weak Healthcare Stocks This Summer
Although the stock market has defied gravity for longer than most bears can tolerate, some healthcare stocks are entering a period of seasonal weakness. Acorda …
Options Trading Basics
Before getting into covered calls, I have to cover some option basics. You will never master option trading until you are fluent in the option basics. This …
Why You Should Trade Covered Calls
We have seen two market crashes – one beginning in 2000 and another in 2007 – in a span of less than 10 years. One sore investor’s – Max – …
How to Buy Apple Stock, and Why You Should Want To
You don’t become the largest publicly traded company in history without beating the market averages for years, if not decades. Just look at how tech …
Will United Parcel Service Stock Stop Underperforming FedEx’s in 2017?
A quick look at the stock price charts of United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE:UPS) and FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) suggests UPS has had a harder row to hoe …
3 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Decision to Dump Wal-Mart
In 2005, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A) (NYSE:BRK-B) chief Warren Buffett began buying shares of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT). At the time, Wal-Mart …
Make No Mistake: Tesla Inc Looks To Be Winding Down SolarCity’s Ambitious Plans
When Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) bought SolarCity for $2.6 billion late in 2016, a lot of people (including myself) called the deal a bailout of Elon Musk’s …
Target Sales Slide but Shares Fly High Anyway
Image source: Target. Target (NYSE:TGT) is struggling to reignite business growth, as demonstrated during its recent third-quarter report. Yet, in spite …