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Stock Options Trading System Provides Incredible Strategy – The Secrets of Partial Compounding

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:38:00 +0000

Okay, now that you’ve found a good stock option trading System you are ready to rumble. You’re ready to start ‘cleaning house’ and making huge returns sending you and yours into a rapid luxurious retirement in little under a year.
Your excitement is understood. And guess what? It’s actually possible because it has been done.
We are assuming that you’ve obtained a really good stock option trading system, a method that uses excellent high probability entries, well placed stop losses and a trailing stop method of maximizing profits Now it is time to talk about the ‘good stuff’, the secrets of money management in options trading, where the real profits are created.
Options trading money management is the heart and soul of making your account grow while preventing unwelcome disasters. Trade with intelligent money management and increase your confidence.
Okay, so let’s say your stock options trading system is actually making you profits. You feel that the system can be trusted and now you are anxious to ‘up the ante’ and start making bigger returns. So what do you do next?
Well first of all, keep trading but just keep your position sizes small, for now. It’s now time to do a little tweaking with your money management of your position sizes. Doing this right could possibly make you hundreds of thousands up through millions of dollars, literally. Doing options trading money management wrong can cause you a lot of misery, pain, and suffering and wipe out your account quickly!
In essence, you want to keep your position sizes (the total amount you have invested into an options trade position) even sized and never more than 10% of your options trading portfolio (on a small account and down to 1% to 2% options position sizes on very large accounts). With options, even if you kept your ‘bet’ size the same, say 20 contracts for each and every trade, you could make a great living off just one stock even if you never increase your position size. But if you wanted to taste a little of that compounded, ‘parabolic’ growth increase your options position size by 20% to 30% max every time you double your account (never increase it to 100%!).
In case you’re reading this and do not have a profitable Stock Option Trading System or stock there are excellent systems available through doing a little reasearch. You can try and figure a system out on your own or you can short cut success by obtaining some one else’s system or service and emulate what they are doing.
Here are some basic trading system approaches that can net out consistent profits: Trade trends. Trade pivot points. Trade swings in the direction of the trend. And that pretty much covers it for successful moneymaking, directional options trading that’s worth your time.
If your profits are bigger than your losses then you have a winning trading system. You don’t necessarily have to win more than you lose. Yes you can actually make money by losing more than you win if your winners are big enough and your losers are small enough.
The issue when trading options is that when you lose you can easily take a 25 to 50% ‘haircut’ or more of your position just by simply stopping out through stock price action. This also goes to show that you will want a system that doesn’t lose too often when trading options – remember that. Plus you’ll want your winners to be able to be really big so trend and pivot point systems can perform the best.
This brings up the issue of making a fortune in options trading without losing your shirt.
There is nothing worse than making a fortune in options trading then quickly giving that fortune back. If you’ve ever done that you can understand why people jumped off bridges and have tall buildings in 1929 during the great stock market crash. It’s a most miserable feeling because you get so high and excited, and happy from your gains and then if you lose that if worse than never having had obtained it in the first place. So promise yourself now that you’ll never put your self in that position and that you’ll aggressively guard your profits at all times.
So that said let’s figure out how to grow a trading account rapidly without losing it.

How To Make Money with A Stock Trading Newsletter or an Options Trading Newsletter

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:46:03 +0000

Believe it or not, good Options trading newsletters and Stock trading newsletter have helped people make a lot of money from the stocks and options markets while saving them considerable fortunes by trading on their own.
The best trading newsletters encompass all the fundamentals of great trading in their service that in turn helps you form top-notch trading habits. Besides making money, forming great trading habits taught by professional trading newsletters (and not all newsletters are taught by professional traders) can be one of the most valuable things you pick up from your subscriptions.
And just for the record stock trading newsletters or option trading newsletters are also called stock trading advisories or option trading advisories, or stock pick newsletters, option pick newsletters, stock trading membership site or option trading membership site etc. you get the picture.
The question is, “How do you find a good Options trading newsletter or Stock trading newsletter?”
Well first all, what kind of trading style do you want to trade? Here are the varieties that are available:
- Swing trading stocks and options
- Intraday trading stocks
- Pivot point position trading on stocks and options that aim for explosive five day to one month moves with well-defined stop losses
- Trend trading that takes advantage of two to four week trends and three to six month trends – trading stocks and trading options
- Then you have the various options strategies, complex option combinations, credit spreads, covered calls etc.
The best services first focus on stock price movement. These top-performing services combine technical analysis, chart pattern set ups, anticipation of opportunities on the charts in addition to combining other price motivational factors such as earnings season cycles, stocks splits, seasonal runs, trends of the indices etc.
The best services have a decent track record. That said don’t get too caught up in a track record because some services may fake their track record. Bottom-line is that the philosophy of the service must make sense and must meet common sense. In other words their approach to capturing trading profits must make sense. Ultimately, if you like what you see, the best test will be to take a trial and paper trade their service. Don’t use real money but pretend like you’re trading in real time with real money.
When you’re testing a stock trading newsletter or option trading newsletter make sure you give it a fair shot. Remember, once you find a good service that service could make you a lot of money. In fact, through known acquaintances that wish to remain anonymous, some subscribers to certain newsletters say they have made millions of dollars trading stocks and options through those particular newsletter trading ideas. So keep positive about the potential of some of these trading newsletters. There are actually good newsletters out there.
Really, the key to finding your Stock trading or option trading newsletter ‘golden goose’ that lays the ‘golden eggs’, is to search in the search engines, search through blogs, forums and review sites. Often when you read review, that person may be a little biased because they may be promoting a particular newsletters affiliate program but it’s worth checking out. Additionally there are many advisories listed in trader magazines you’ll find in your local bookstore.
The bottom line is that you see something that looks interesting you must give it a shot. Don’t trip over pennies on your way to thousands of dollars. If something looks good sign up, receive their updates and paper trade. This way we’ll be doing complete research and you won’t leave behind something that could have even provided you financial freedom.
Paper trading, which is pretending that you are really trading but without the use of real money, is definitely the best way to get started with any trading service, especially if it is in active trading service. Using real money can cloud your judgment because real money pulls strong emotions into your evaluations.
Start doing your research for your ‘golden goose’ stock trading newsletter or options trading newsletter today. Imagine the possibilities if you find one!

Finding or Creating Your Own Options Trading System That Works

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:43:12 +0000

Stock Options are wonderful! This clever derivative of the equities market has to be one of the most ingenious inventions of modern times. For the trader who can learn how to win at trading options, there are many luxuries in life that can be experienced.
Success in options trading requires a consistent approach for long-term success. This statement is not meant to be some grandiose, idealistic comment made by some ‘trading theorist’. Rather, it is a statement born out of the hard knock and success experiences of the author and many other long-term, successful trader contemporaries.
A “consistent approach” to options trading can also be called a “trading system”, or an “options trading system” in this case. The term “trading system” is not necessarily confined to a series of computerized “black box” trading signals. A trading system could be something as simple as “buy an option on a stock in an uptrend that breaks the high of the previous bar after at least two days of pull back down movement that make lower lows.” A trading system is simply an organized approach that takes advantage of a repeated pattern or event that brings net profits.
Since an Option is a “Derivative” of the stock you must derive your options trading system from a stock trading system. This means your trading system must be based around actual stock price movement. That said, your trading system doesn’t need to work for all stocks it just has to work for certain types of stocks, certain volatility of stocks and certain price levels of stocks – So focus your trading system on certain stocks that have price behavior that is predictable to the net results you wish to abstract from a stock.
You can develop a trading system, a trading approach, and a trading methodology by identifying a price movement pattern (or lack of price movement pattern) or some event that occurs on some sort of regular basis. This means you can trade price behavior patterns on price charts such as: traditional chart patterns, trends, swings, pivot points, boxes – or you can trade events that motivate stock price such as earnings runs, post earnings runs, stock splits, or seasonal factors. Bottom line to make the maximum profit in options trading you want your stock to move in your favor fast and you want it to move far. Just a relatively small movement in the price of a stock can double your money in options!
There are so many different strategies and combinations that you can trade with options. You can buy calls and puts for directional trades. You can employ call spreads and put spreads to trade directional movements with a buffered risk, and profit. You can sell or purchase spreads to receive the credit of the premium decay by options expiration. You can trade straddles and strangles if you expect a big move but are not sure in which direction. You can also get into ratio back spreads, condors, and butterflies. And if you’re really feeling crazy you can sell ‘naked’ options (just better use a stop loss or you’ll end up like one of my old trading buddies who ran an account to $20 million then gave it all back selling naked options.) You can go to cboe.com for more information on options trading.
Directional options trading systems are the best. Keep it simple, buy calls for and upside trade or buy puts for a downside trade. But this means you need a directional stock trading system in order to trade directional options.
Here are a couple of different approaches for directional systems:
Develop an options trading systems that trades the swings in stock price movement. There are many good swing trading systems available today. We suggest you obtain one. Bottom line with swing trading is that you want to swing trade with the trend. Options brokers these days have advanced order technology that will allow you to enter swing trades based on the price movement of the stock so you don’t have to watch this stock all day. That huge advancement to swing trading options.
Swing trade the day bars. Most swing trading systems are based on daily bars on the stock price chart.
Swing trade the Intra Day Bars! Their other fantastic systems based on intraday charts that pin point swing trading entries.
Develop an options trading system that trades three to six month trends. This is where the big money is. Trading the large trends is where many are able to place larger sums of money to develop their net worth.
Develop an options trading system that trades pivot points. Pivot point trading is arguably the best way to trade options, because price action usually is explosive, and happens quickly in our direction when a trade works.
This is good because you can use shorter-term options and leverage yourself a little better. And it’s also nice you can make great gains in five days to four weeks on average so time decay issues become less of a worry.
There are many different directional trading methods you could use to trade options. You need to pick one, work it, and never use more than 10% options position size per trade on small accounts 1% to 5 % max position size on larger accounts. This methodical way of money management trading options is the fastest way to potentially rapid account growth, helping you avoid needless setbacks.