Options 101
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09:06:57 PM EDT | 06/14/2009
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By Jim Brown | The Dow came to a dead stop at the 200-day resistance at 8751 but failed to give back any ground.

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Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:06:57 PM
Test OPT 101 Ver 1
By Jim Brown | The Dow came to a dead stop at the 200-day resistance at 8751 but failed to give back any ground.

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Friday, June 12, 2009 2:26:26 AM
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
Options 101
Offsetting Time Decay
By Linda Piazza | Last week's Options 101 article dealt with volatility and was titled "Volatility on the Brain." . Volatility still seems to be the topic du jour.

Friday, April 24, 2009
Options 101
Volatility on the Brain
By Linda Piazza | Everywhere I look or listen these days, I read or hear questions and comments about volatility. For example, during March, the CBOE's "Ask the Institute" once-a-week posts featured three questions in a row about volatility from options traders.

Friday, April 17, 2009
Options 101
Why Options Traders Should Beware Amateur Hour
By Linda Piazza | During the first few minutes after the open and the last few minutes before the close, bid/ask spreads sometimes widen and options values can be inflated.

Friday, April 10, 2009
Options 101
Between the Bid and the Ask
By Linda Piazza | Many experienced traders vow they'll never put in a market order, always putting in an order between the bid and ask. Is there a time, however, when traders should waive that vow and put in the market order?

Friday, April 3, 2009
Options 101
Exits and Emotions
By Linda Piazza | Who controls when you enter a trade? You do. What controls when you exit? The market does. Therein lies the reason that many traders have more difficulty with exits than entries.

Friday, March 27, 2009
Options 101
The Stock Repair Strategy: Component Option Trades
By Linda Piazza | Wouldn't you like to know about a strategy that could, under certain circumstances, repair a stock loss even if the stock gained only moderately and never regained the level at which you bought it? This Options 101 article will provide background on the options trades that are involved while the companion Trader's Corner article delves into the way they're combined to establish the stock-repair strategy.

Friday, March 20, 2009
Options 101
Deviations from the Norm
By Linda Piazza | This article follows up last week's. It discusses another tool that option traders might use to establish ranges in which they might expect the underlying to travel. Such tools help option traders set stops and profit expectations.

Friday, March 13, 2009
Options 101
Ranges and Deviations
By Linda Piazza | The topics discussed in Options 101 articles usually delve into matters related specifically to options. So why will this article and the next be devoted to the ATR (average true range) indicator and standard deviation calculations?

Friday, March 6, 2009
Options 101
Striking While the Iron Is Hot
By Linda Piazza | Option traders make more decisions and convey more information to their brokers or on their order pages than stock traders do. The relative complexity of the decisions options traders need to make can mean the difference between a winning and losing trade to the unschooled option trader.

Friday, February 27, 2009
Options 101
The Secret Formula for Options
By Linda Piazza | You've probably heard about the Black-Scholes model for calculating option prices, but have you heard about the so-called secret formula that relates stocks, calls and puts?

Friday, February 20, 2009
Options 101
It's That Time Again: Tax Considerations for Options on Broad-Based Indices
By Linda Piazza | It's time to warn again about the special treatment that broad-based index options should receive when you complete tax forms.

Friday, February 13, 2009
Options 101
Interest Rates Matter
By Linda Piazza | When thinking about option prices, interest rates matter.

Friday, February 6, 2009
Options 101
Gravitating Deltas
By Linda Piazza | Delta measures how sensitive an option's price is to price changes in the underlying. However, when volatility changes, that sensitivity alters in different ways for OTM, ITM and ATM options. James Bittman's "fifth rule on deltas" makes it easy to predict that alteration.

Friday, January 30, 2009
Options 101
NBBO: An Acronym to Know
By Linda Piazza | When I enter the option symbols for a spread on my BrokersXpress order page, a "Quotes" box displays the NBBO. What is NBBO, other than a handy tool that keeps clients from having to calculate the bid/ask spread by hand? The answer applies to all options traders.

Friday, January 23, 2009
Options 101
What's in a Name?
By Linda Piazza | If you're venturing away from straight call and put buying into combination trades, you might be trying spreads. If so, you might find it difficult to keep the nomenclature straight. This article presents a visual image that might prove helpful.

Friday, January 16, 2009
Options 101
Missing the Point
By Linda Piazza | Price isn't everything. Market makers or institutions and their computers might care just as much about something else when making buy and sell decisions: volatility.

Friday, January 9, 2009
Options 101
Free Resources for Options Traders
By Linda Piazza | In our current economic climate, people want value for their money. What can be more valuable than free resources?

Friday, January 2, 2009
Options 101
When an Ex Can Cause Problems
By Linda Piazza | Traders who buy or sell options on an equity or ETF that offers dividends should keep track of the ex-dividend date and take appropriate action to protect their option positions.

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