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• Two Low-Risk Plays for Conservative Option Bulls
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on September 7th, 2011 at 12:32 pm, Comments: 0

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average $DJIA is on pace to snap its streak of triple-digit drops today, as Wall Street waxes optimistic on the prospects [...]

  
  

• Supplement Income On a Stagnating Stock with Covered Calls
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on August 31st, 2011 at 12:06 pm, Comments: 0

  The ratio of new annual highs to new annual lows has dwindled significantly in August, as broad-market headwinds have stalled the momentum of many uptrending [...]

  
  

• Understanding Volatility and Its Impact on Options
  Posted by admin on August 26th, 2011 at 3:18 pm, Comments: 0

  Guest Post by Joe Burgoyne, Director, Options Industry Council. According to Dictionary.com, volatile is defined as “tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive; [...]

  
  

• A Single-Strike Play with a Slightly Larger Carrot on the Upside
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on August 17th, 2011 at 1:08 pm, Comments: 0

  In one of my most recent StockTwits contributions, I dissected the lesser-known strip strategy, which is a bearishly biased version of the long straddle. In [...]

  
  

• Tipping That Pre-Earnings Volatility Play to the Bearish Side
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on August 3rd, 2011 at 11:38 am, Comments: 0

  Poultry behemoth Tyson Foods $TSN will step up to the earnings plate bright and early on Monday. Ahead of the event, Credit Suisse highlighted weakness [...]

  
  

• Rest Easy At The Beach With The Collar Strategy
  Posted by Guest Post on July 28th, 2011 at 6:06 pm, Comments: 0

  This is a guest post by Philip Gocke, Managing Director for the Options Industry Council in Chicago, IL.     This summer’s fun has included [...]

  
  

• A Directionally Neutral Way to Make Money on an Earnings Move
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on July 20th, 2011 at 1:09 pm, Comments: 0

  Earnings season is officially underway, with a mob of Wall Street notables waiting in the wings. One such company is Texas Instruments $TXN, which will [...]

  
  

• Dissecting a Theoretical Volatility Play for 2Q Earnings Season
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on July 13th, 2011 at 12:30 pm, Comments: 0

  Earlier this week, blue-chip bigwig Alcoa Inc. $AA unofficially commenced the start of second-quarter earnings season. (As a side note, the stock’s resulting price action [...]

  
  

• Getting to Know the Lesser-Known Greeks
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on July 6th, 2011 at 1:25 pm, Comments: 0

  Most seasoned option speculators are familiar with delta, which is the percentage of the price movement in the underlying stock that will translate into the [...]