If you are going to place your own orders (and why not?) then an overview of types of orders is fitting and proper.
Options FAQs: Stop Loss vs. Stop Limit Order
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Options FAQs: Limit Order vs. Market Order
If you are going to place your own orders (and why not?) then an overview of types of orders is fitting and proper.
Options FAQs: Defining Common Options Terms
One of the harder things abut what I do is getting the options education level of my readers correctly. I?m too basic and I bore the readers who? know. I?m too advanced and I bore the one?s who do. So, let?s err on the side of caution and review some terminology. Call...
What Are Measured Move Targets?
A very useful tool for determining what the market as a whole thinks the trading range until expiration of an underlying value will be is the At The Money (ATM) straddle.
Options FAQs: What Is Third Friday Expiration
Have you ever wondered about third Friday expiration?
Options FAQs: What Is Open Interest?
What makes for liquidity? High volume, a narrow bid/ask spread and a large open interest.
A Covered Call Is a Naked Short Put
I want to talk about naked short put, albeit a synthetic short put. And that is the covered call.