OptionsXpress’s Retail Options Trading Also Down 10% From April (Dow Jones Newswires) OptionsXpress Holdings Inc. (OXPS) has just reported that their retail options trading volume was down by 12% in May compared with May 2010 and also fell 10% from last April.
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Options Trading Investors Trade Ford, But Are Cautious on Industrials (Wall Street Journal) This week, some options trading investors were trading Ford Motor in order to have a short-term rise while other options trading investors were being cautious over the whole industrial sector.
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The last thing you have to do after all the hard work on market research is ordering the trade. You would not want to let last step throw you off balance. Here are 5 fundamental rules to learn by heart: 1. Use Limit Order religiously to Open a Trade: How many times you use market [...]
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Top down is the most popular and used analysis in the community of trading professionals and market analysis.
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Bull Call Spread or sometimes called Call Debit Spread is another vertical options strategy to make money when market or a particular underlying stock is going up. This type of trade is referred to as debit because a trader needs to pay upfront out of his account and no margin is required. The name Bull [...]
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In terms of trading, there is no obligation to trade. You can trade what, when and where you like. I believe, in my experience, no options brokers will force you to trade or ask you to commit to any trading activity in order to maintain your account. Your money can sit there and likely to [...]
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A contract to buy or sell a definite financial product referred to as the option’s underlying instrument
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A good number of the strategies employed by options investors have limited option risk.
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There are two major components of the option’s premium; these are the intrinsic and the time value.
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