Learn Options Trading:
Options Trading Education
and Options Trading Strategies

Why You Need to Learn Options Trading

Most investors’ equity portfolios are 100% long stock. This works wonderfully during a bull market—like the mega-bull we enjoyed from 1982 to 2000 and the mini-bull from 2003 to 2007—but the good times of buy-and-hold investing are long gone. Options can help you profit from bear markets as well as range-bound markets, and that means they’re a perfect way to diversify away from a long-only, buy-and-hold stock portfolio. Profiting from stagnant and declining prices are just two ways you can “row” your portfolio to gains in a difficult market full of headwinds.

Options are an incredibly flexible tool that smart investors can use to protect, boost and diversify their portfolios—all while reducing risk! Options trading volume has exploded, growing 40% annually as more investors have discovered the power of options to enhance—and protect—portfolio returns. Don’t be left behind!

Bottom line: You can use options to profit in any kind of market—up, down, flat, or choppy. Specifically, options help you:

• Participate in all of the gains of your favorite stocks at a fraction of the cost
• Buy stocks at a 10% to 20% discount to the current market price
• Protect gains in a stock that looks shaky
• Quickly recoup losses from a stock investment that went bad
• Generate steady monthly income from an underlying portfolio of blue-chip stocks
• Attempt to double, triple, or quadruple your money even when the market is going down!

Options Trading Education—The Basics

Stock options are derivatives—they derive their value from an underlying something else, the value of a stock. Each option contract represents the right to buy or sell 100 shares of that underlying stock at a certain price on or before a certain date.

There are two types of options: calls and puts. And there are two sides to every option transaction: the party buying the option, who has a long position, and the party selling (also called writing) the option, who has a short position. Each side comes with its own risk-reward profile and its own strategies.

A call is the option to buy the underlying stock at a predetermined price (strike price) by a predetermined date (expiration, which is usually the Saturday after the third Friday of a month). The expiration can be as soon as next month or as distant as two and a half years away. If the call buyer decides to buy the stock—an act known as exercising the option—the call writer is obliged to sell his shares to the call buyer at the strike price.

If a call is the right to buy, then a put is the option to sell the underlying stock at a predetermined strike price until the expiration date. The put buyer has the right to sell shares at the strike price, and if he decides to sell, the put writer is obliged to buy at that price.

A call buyer makes a profit when the price of the underlying shares rises. The call writer is making the opposite bet, hoping for the stock price to decline or, at the very least, not rise above the strike price by more than the amount he received for selling the call in the first place.

The put buyer profits when the underlying stock price falls. Conversely, a put writer is hoping for the stock price to rise or, at the very least, not decline below the strike price by more than the amount he received for selling the put in the first place.

More Options Trading Education—The Good Stuff

Here’s a sneak peak at more advanced tips you’ll find in this FREE special report:

Lesson #1:
Options symbols—How to easily identify and communicate to your broker the specific options that you wish to trade

Lesson #2:
What the terms “In the Money,” “At the Money,” “Out of the Money” mean and how they will help you determine which options to trade and how they behave

Lesson #3:
The importance of “time value” and how you can generate regular income from it

Lesson #4:
When options are “exercised” or “assigned” and why it’s important

Lesson #5:
The difference between “American” and “European” options and when to use each type for maximum profit

Lesson #6:
Why an option’s “implied volatility” is the most important component of its price and how to take advantage of it

Lesson #7:
What “The Greeks” are and how they will help you construct the best possible options position for your particular market view and investment objectives

Lesson #8:
Learn about the fascinating concept called “put-call parity” and how understanding it lets you choose the cheapest possible way to obtain stock market exposure in any direction

Whew!... That’s a lot of options trading education in this FREE special report, Learn Options Trading: Options Trading Education and Options Trading Strategies. But this report doesn’t stop at education...

Eight Profitable Options Trading Strategies

In addition to helping you learn options trading through essential options trading education principles, you will also receive eight sure-fire options trading strategies that provide you with all of the information you need to construct a complete options trading system!

This special free report does not waste your time with confusing or useless options theory—it provides you with what you need to know to MAKE MONEY now. Read clear, real-life case studies of actual option trades made on actual stocks!

Options Trading Strategy #1:
Insure stock you own against a price decline using put options, fully protected from the dreaded gap down openings that make stop loss orders virtually worthless

Options Trading Strategy #2:
Buy stock at a significant discount below the current market price by selling put options

Options Trading Strategy #3:
Create cash dividends out of thin air by selling call options

Options Trading Strategy #4:
Repair a losing stock position at zero additional cost using call options

Options Trading Strategy #5:
Maintain your stock exposure with call options for a fraction of the cost of owning stock

Options Trading Strategy #6:
Create spreads by selling options you don’t already own against options that you do own in order to significantly lower your cost—and magnify your profits—even further than you can do with individual options alone

Options Trading Strategy #7:
Sell BOTH call and put option spreads and profit from a lack of market movement

Options Trading Strategy #8:
Buy BOTH call and put options in low-risk way to profit from the uncertainty of not knowing which direction a stock is going to move.

Don’t Delay! Start Learning About the Profitable Opportunities in Stock Options Trading Today

So what are you waiting for? The options trading education and strategies in this FREE report could easily cost you many hundreds if not thousands of dollars elsewhere. Anyone who owns stocks or wants to own stocks is LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE if they don’t sell options that are just sitting there—right now and every trading day—waiting to be sold by YOU for cold, hard cash.

It’s time to start generating the extra money any smart investor deserves to make—and which the markets are offering. Simply enter your email address in the box provided, and we’ll send you an absolutely free copy of Learn Options Trading: Options Trading Education and Options Trading Strategies. If you sign up today, we will also provide you with a complimentary subscription to the InvestingDaily.com “Stocks to Watch” Daily e-letter!

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