Thousands of them.
Great way to lose a ton of money super fast..!
Say goodbye to your wallet..!
Have a few questions and my head is spinning.
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Why don’t you post say five or so of your questions....
Give people a starting point.
Take your forehead off the baseball bat and stop running around in a circle.........Sheesh!
Do covered calls only.
Options? Hmm.
When in doubt go with old reliable. A Federal Gold Medal .308 Win 168 Grain Sierra Match King Boat Tail Hollowpoint does the job out to a thousand yards.
There may be better choices but its a good general option.
DONT DO IT....
Look up EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS.
It will save you a LOT of money.
The only people who consistently make money on them are the hucksters who use TV, blogs, vlogs, and newsletters to bring in more rubes all the time as the earlier victims lose everything. Yeah, I want to get involved in that, really soon. As if I'm not good enough at losing money as it is...
If you want to learn to trade options go towww.tastytrade.com. they will teach you through there video library and live show how to properly trade options... trade small trade often. And may the odds be ever in your favor
What are your questions?
Unless you trade professionally, you’re generally the “mark” at the card table.
Short statement. If you only buy calls or puts, your downside is limited to the amount you spent and your upside is "unlimited." Writing naked calls and puts puts you at very very large risk because there is potentially no limit to your loss.
Under the efficient market theory you should only break even on options, less commissions and differences between buy and sell prices. The guru on this, however, is Nassim Nicholas Taleb who talks about the fact that he discovered, for instance, that deep out of the money puts are sold at a discount to risk because of "black swan" events.
There is investing and gambling,pick one.
Good luck.
Buy low sell high.
After that you are on your own.
Good luck
I trade em but only once in a great while.
I used to trade em all the time, but not anymore. It’s very high risk.
I read somewhere that 75% of option trades lose money.
On stocks that I have a gain on and want to finally sell, I’ll do it by selling a covered call on it to make a little extra on the sale. I’ve also sold Puts on stocks have seen an unusual drop in price, but are a solid stock. However, it’s very rare that I do that. Instead, I’ll sometimes just buy the call in that situation instead....again, very rare.
The markets are near all time highs at the time. Better keep out for a while if you don’t have idea how it works.
When the over- all stock market is about to fall because of rising interest rates, place a put(bet that the markets will fall hugely) on the OEX option. After the DJIA has fallen 1000 points you can cash in your put. Other wise stay away from options. Even the major brokerage houses are not able to make profit from options. Stay away from hedge funds.
If you buy them, on average you come out with a loss - the odds favor the dealers.
If you sell them (covered), it’s all too easy to end up losing your own winning stocks or shelling out hard earned money for losers, but at least time is on your side. Uncovered, you’re headed for disaster.
Not for beginners. If you think you can get good advice on options from the posters on this website then you probably should not be investing in them.