Posts Tagged ‘Credit Spreads’

Planet Wealth Scam

Planet Wealth is an independent investment company that is run by a group of private investors who have a long history of experience and success with stock market investing. Many people are under the impression that most investment services like planet wealth are a scam, so I decided to do some homework on planet wealth [...]

Options Trading Strategies – Treat Implied Volatility of Calls Separate From the IV of Puts

The Implied Volatility (IV) of Calls needs separate treatment from the IV of Puts. Also, for specific options trading strategies treat the IV of both Puts and Calls as a combined bundle.Each option at each strike implies its own individual percentage value of the underlying product’s future volatility. This makes it unique from any other [...]

Options Trading Strategies – Book Review – Guy Cohen, The Bible of Options Strategies

Most trading literature on option strategies tend to lean towards mathematical formulas to define the construction of a spread.  Guy Cohen has chosen to use pictorial logic, even with the Greeks unique to a particular strategy, to piece together the legs of a spread with diagrams.Diagrams that connect with each other are a much more [...]

Option Credit Spreads – Frequently Asked Questions

It has been well said that one of the most profitable skills you can ever learn is the art of trading. But when it comes to trading the stock market, there are many different strategies available to us. Some are very volatile, short term and high risk, while others are much more flexible, less stressful [...]

Paper Trading Credit Spread and Iron Condor Option Trades

Paper trading using one of the many virtual trading systems provided by option brokers, and now CBOE, is so important if you have never traded options. This is especially important trading credit spreads, like Bull Puts and Bear Calls and ultimately Iron Condors. These are special strategy trades that must that must be fully understood [...]

Index Credit Spread Trading

I am an active trader of option credit spreads on the SPX, NDX and RUT broad based stock indexes. I am very conservative and only enter into trades that have a very high probability of being profitable. I write OTM Bull Put Spreads first. During months when the market is moving sideways or [...]

Option Credit Spreads – Limited Risk With Limited Profit

I started trading options in the late 90’s. After selling my first option and collecting an immediate credit I and became an option seller for life. I became a student of option selling strategies and started selling covered calls on stocks I brought and owned. I was doing OK collecting premiums month after month until [...]

Option Credit Spread Trading – Limited Risk with Limited Profit

I started trading options in the late 90’s. After selling my first option and collecting an immediate credit I and became an option seller for life. I became a student of option selling strategies and started selling covered calls on stocks I brought and owned. I was doing OK collecting premiums month after month until [...]

Option Trading: Credit Spread Strategies

A credit spread is a type of vertical spread. It is a trading strategy in which you are buying an option, call or put, at a certain strike price, and simultaneously selling the same type of option at a different strike price of the same month. The sold strike price must have a higher [...]