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Welcome to our trading education section. We have created this entire section to help you, our readers, subscribers, and members, become more familiar with trading. We’ve stocked it full of useful links, tools, guides, etc. that we’ve produced or found on the web. The information contain within will help even the most basic beginner, become more familiar with the stock market, options and stock trading, etc. In no time you should be able to take the information found within this section and begin trading and making money. We are always adding and expanding, but if you find a particularly helpful tool or web resource you would like to share, or believe it should belong in this section please feel free to contact us.

Options Beginner’s Guide

Are you brand new to trading stocks or options? Do you not know how or where to purchase a stock or option, or don’t even know what a stock or option really is? Start with our beginner’s guide. It is contains very basic information and steps that will help you become a better trader.

Trading Links

This is a list of all of the sites and services we use everyday. This list is the best of the best. We don’t do any link-sharing here. You’ll only find solid advice, great tools, and fantastic stock and options trading information from these websites and resources.

Trading Glossary

Our trading glossary is coming soon. It contains invaluable information on different terms and sayings in the trading world.

 

Phil's Favorites

Re-lend it or Lose it

November 20th, 2008 2:20 pm

In response to the global crisis and our poorly designed bailout strategy, Willem Buiter proposes that government force banks to lend by enacting legislation that will penalize banks if they don't. He explains: "Banks in the north Atlantic region have been effectively socialised by the protective shield of capital injections, liquidity facilities, debt guarantees and other forms of financial support. So far, there have been only benefits...  It is time to give something back."  While this action might be viewed as undue state intrusion into business decisions, given the situation as it is, I think it's justified.  - Ilene

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Trading Goddess

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November 19th, 2008 8:03pm

(no, no... that is not me!
Add a couple decades, dye the hair brown,
have a couple children and voila!
That's is me!)...

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The Options Report

By Andrew Wilkinson and Rebecca Darst



JPMorgan decline sets off bullish option bets for 2009

November 19th, 2008 3:46 pm

Today’s tickers: JPM, BBY, ACE, IRM, SHLD & CSCO

JPM – JP Morgan Chase & Co. – With the market in meltdown mode, investors are once again departing all shades of financial shares. There are new lows today at several major financial institutions including blue-blooded JP Morgan. The 52-week $28.87 low is a radical shift from the $50.50 52-week peak set three days into October. We’re not sure many financial companies can claim to have traded annual peaks and lows in such a short space of time, but this underscores the negative outlook for the economy and companies regardless of shade. Options on JPM are in play today with large buying of this week’s expiring 30 strike puts at 1.40 premium. Today’s investor interest at that strike is equal to the outstanding number of puts at the strike and shows h

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Stock and Option Trades
(Advanced option strategies)

Fuzzy Math!

August 3rd, 2008 9:36 am

Have you ever seen literature from a fund posting attractive gains and comparing its performance to that of the benchmark S&P 500?  Have you ever investigated how the figures listed were calculated?  If not, you will definitely want to read on! Let's take a fairly representative example.  Fund Manager Joe Bull, for example, is very good at generating profits in bull markets.  Let's say Joe Bull made 20% in each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.  But Joe Bull does not have the toolset to survive bear markets and finds in 2008 that he is down 30%.  What has Joe Bull's return been over 5 years? It turns out, the answer to that questions depends greatly on what Joe Bull wants to report as his return!  Why? Because little regulation exists to prevent Joe Bull from choosing any number of mathematical approaches to calculate his return! For example, fund manager Joe could simply take the average of his returns over 5 years.  This would be calculated as the sum of 2 more from Option Trades

Option Sage
(Strategy and Education)

Trivia Time!

August 18th, 2008 11:38 pm

Let's say you decide to deposit $100,000 into a brokerage account.  You decide you will check your portfolio on a weekly basis.  Now let's further assume that the first week has passed and you are about to log in to your account.  But before you do, you are told that one of two things has happened in the past week.

[1]  Your portfolio went up $10,000 and then dropped $10,000

[2]  Your portfolio went up 10% and then dropped 10%.

So, the trivia question is:  In case [1], what should you expect your account value to be and is that the same figure as in case [2]?

If you answered $100,000 in case [1], you would be absolutely correct!  If you answered that this is the same as in case [2] you would be absolutely incorrect!  Why?  Well let's take a look at what happens when the portfolio rises 10% first; it goes from $100,000 to $110,000.  But then we're told it drops 10%.  10% of $110,000 is $11,000 more from Option Sage


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