Trading options

Okay, we're back in our demonstration account, here. Under the trading with confidence philosophy, we are going to take a close look at closing out this SPY position. We have had this on for a...

That's how hedge fund managers do it. It's really a smarter way to manage a portfolio of stocks, by beta-weighting them - using the Analysis tab - against an index like the QQQs. Then,...

I've gone through all kinds of different systems, where they said, "You can predict 80% of the increase in the price of the stock. Or you can predict the price of a stock 80% of the...

Let's go to the "Trade," window, and take a look. I've already pulled up the 139, 141s. We wanted to stay 5 points above and 5 points below, selling an iron condor....

on the strike price $52. The same goes for in the money put options. This has a Delta of -93 at the $65 strike price. If the QQQs were to drop by one dollar, you would have a gain of 93 cents profit,...

We have the variables that we are going to be entering - they are the stock symbol, the at the money straddle price, the range probability, the stock price, the implied volatility of the stock issue,...

The difference is that you can just set and forget these kinds of trades, normally. You're going to have very little downside risk. If Yahoo stock gets cut in half because the deal...

Okay. We took a look, and we did our daily review of our trades. We found that 2 out of 3 of our positions were doing really well. The one position that is not doing very well is this IWM position. We...

From $15.90, minus $18.30. It's $2.04. We have to multiply that by 1100 shares, because that's how many shares I have now. That's a gain of $2640. Remember, I lost $450 on...

Those are my real accounts. They are actual trades that I made. They are real screenshots from my real account. I have quite a bit of experience in Futures, options, trading accounts - what...