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How to use covered puts to manage your option risk along with a few notes of warning about options & risk...
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Options Update: GeoEye (GEOY) & Chesapeake Energy (CHK)
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Options Update for MBIA (MBI) and Sprint Nextel (S)
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Options Update for Dell (DELL) and Merrill Lynch (MER)
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The top ten most active equity options and strikes for 8/28/2008. Includes Lehman Brothers (LEH), Companhia Vale Do Rio (RIO), Rasor Technologies (RZ), Fannie Mae (FNM) and CBS Corporation (CBS).
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The top ten most active index options and strikes for 8/28/2008. Includes Financial Select Sector (XLF), Technology Select Sector (XLK), SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) and PowerShares QQQ (QQQQ) .
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Risk management is key to a trader's survival. It has often been said that those who survive are not the ones who make the most, but the ones who lose the least. Even the best traders make bad trades, and minimizing losses is one of the most important things you can do to help ensure that you'll survive to trade another day. In volatile markets, this is more important than ever. That's why I'd like to focus on a couple of ways you may be able to use options to reduce or limit your risk...
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Options Update for Boeing (BA) and Apple (AAPL)
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Options Update for Amylin Pharma (AMLN) and MSCI Brazil Index (EWZ)
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The top ten most active equity options and strikes for 8/27/2008. Includes Companhia Vale Do Rio (RIO), Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL), Lehman Brothers (LEH), Mirant Corp (MIR), General Motors (GM), Northwest Airlines Corp (NWA) and Merrill Lynch & Co (MER).
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The top ten most active options and strikes for 8/27/2008. Includes Companhia Vale Do Rio (RIO), McDonalds Corp (MCD), PowerShares QQQ (QQQQ), Financial Select Sector (XLF), SPDR S&P 500 (SPY), Lehman Brothers (LEH) and Merrill Lynch & Co (MER).
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Options Update for Nvidia (NVDA) and Dell (DELL)
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Unusual Options Activity Review In Titanium Metals Corporation (TIE)
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Options Update for Chesapeake Energy (CHK) and Darden Restaurants (DRI)
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Options Update for United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) & Sanderson Farms (SAFM)
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The top ten most active equity options and strikes for 8/26/2008. Includes Companhia Vale Do Rio (RIO), Merrill Lynch & Co (MER) and Lehman Brothers (LEH).
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The top ten most active options and strikes for 8/26/2008. Includes Companhia Vale Do Rio (RIO), Merrill Lynch & Co (MER), Lehman Brothers (LEH), Financial Select Sector (XLF), PowerShares QQQ (QQQQ), Valero Energy Corp (VLO) and SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).
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A number of readers and students have asked me to explain in detail how some of the volatility calculations are made. This week, I'll go through the steps of calculating historical volatility..
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Options Update for Grey Wolf (GW) and SLM (SLM)
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Options Update for American Int'l (AIG) and Baidu (BIDU)
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Unusual Options Activity Alert for US Natural Gas Index (UNG)
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Stocks With Aggressive September Option Implied Volatility And Liquid Volume: FRE, FNM, LEH, DAL, NWA, UAUA.
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The top ten most active equity options and strikes for 8/25/2008. Includes Microsoft Corp (MSFT), General Electric Co (GE), EMC Corp (EMC), Companhia Vale Do Rio (RIO), Intel Corp (INTC).
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The top ten most active options and strikes for 8/25/2008. Includes PowerShares QQQ (QQQQ), Titanium Metals Corp (TIE), SPDR S&P 500 (SPY), IShares Russell 2000 Index (IWM) and IShares MSCI E.M.I.F. (EEM).
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Options Update for Lehman (LEH) and Alpharma (ALO)
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Options Update for Akamai (AKAM) and Medtronic (MDT)
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Unusual Options Activity Alert for Alpharma (ALO)
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The top ten most active equity options and strikes for 8/22/2008. Includes General Motors (GM), Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO), Motorola Inc (MOT), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Vulcan Materials Co (VMC), Intel Corp (INTC) and Dell Inc (DELL).