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Len Yates
The advantage of options is that when you're correct about the direction of the market, gains are unlimited. When wrong, losses are limited... (more)
 Len Yates
Volatility peaks often go with market bottoms and volatility lows corresponded with market tops. What does this mean to the options trader?
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Len Yates
Buying a few calls
is a great way to put your toe in the water now, rather than waiting for a clear
bottom to have formed. (more)
Len Yates
If you are too fearful to put your toe in the water, there an appropriate option strategy for you. (more)
Len Yates
Because deep in-the-money options have very little time value, they are a good in highly volatile environments. (more)
Len Yates
Even
though I may have been too early, as it turns out, recommending specific covered
combo’s in November and December 2000, the covered combo is still a fantastic
strategy to use at these extreme volatility levels. (more)
Len Yates
To
illustrate how effectively options can be used to cushion the pain of a bear
market, I would like to relate my experiences of the past three months. (more)
Len Yates
Extreme
volatility says, once again, that this is the bottom. Volatility was
extreme in October and yet, here we are in November making lower lows. (more)
Len Yates
Len answers questions from members about establishing a trading account, spread
trading, delta-neutral trading, and the meaning of open interest. (more)
Len Yates
At the Vegas conference, I mentioned a current opportunity in Nortel Networks. Since the opportunity is still there (although it might have been optimal
on Wednesday October 18), it bears repeating for everyone’s
benefit.
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Len Yates
Option trading opportunities in takeovers can come and go quickly and can be profitable – just be shrewd. (more)
Len Yates
Novice traders often ask how they should prepare themselves to trade options. That's a good sign. It's right that you should prepare yourself before jumping in. (more)
Len Yates
I don’t normally comment on current opportunities in this column but
this one is simply so good I can’t keep my mouth shut. (more)
Len Yates
Much like hydrogen and oxygen combine to form a unique substance (water),
putting options together into various combinations results in some amazingly
unique risk/reward profiles. (more)
Len Yates
An option is a beautiful thing. Buy one. When you’re
correct about the direction of the market, gains are unlimited. (more)
Len Yates
The horizontal
debit spread is a neutral strategy. As
such, it is a good strategy to use in a choppy, sideways market. (more)
Len Yates
There is an option strategy, involving just two options, that behaves exactly like a position in the underlyingIt’s called a synthetic, because you “synthesize” a unit of
the underlying. (more)
Len Yates
The backspread is an amazing little tool for when you expect a
potentially big price move, but at the same time realizing that there is a good
chance you could be wrong, and no move whatsoever develops.< (more)
Len Yates
A lot of money can be made by simply riding a trend. Not only is going with the trend wise, but buying and holding a position for weeks is less stressful than day trading. (more)
Len Yates
Traders say that volatilities are skewed when the options
of a given asset trade at increasing or decreasing levels of implied volatility
as you move through the strikes. (more)
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