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November, 2018

Advantages Of Options

Nov. 20, 2018—Blog 5: Advantages Of Options Sam Hooker Now that you have a better understanding of the basics of options, some of the advantages have become apparent. I briefly discussed the advantage of higher ROI in the “Calls and Puts” blog post, but other advantages include risk management, time, speculation, leverage, diversification, and income generation.  ...

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Options Trading Strategies

Nov. 19, 2018—Blog 4: Options Trading Strategies Sam Hooker   This blog post will discuss some of the basic strategies investors use when trading options.   Covered Call A covered call is an options strategy where an investor owns a stock that they plan on holding onto, and they write (sells) call options on that underlying security....

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How To Read An Options Chart

Nov. 19, 2018—Blog 3: How To Read An Options Chart Sam Hooker In this blog post I will take you through how an analyst would read an options chain, a list of options currently being sold in the open market. The screenshot below shows the current options available for Apple on November 7th, 2018. This data was taken...

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