Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Leverage Your Investments with Options

By Donald Scott


If you want to supercharge your investment, then you will need to learn the basics of option trading. While investing with options you need to carefully look at your choices; the two options are called "calls" and "puts". You should consider "puts" if you think that the asset will go lower in a short span of time. If the index or stock is going higher quickly, then you should buy "calls".

When the stock is dropping, then you should buy "puts". If you think it is going to go higher in value, then buying "calls" will give you the advantage. In order to determine the index or stock's direction, you'll need to study the price chart of the actual index or stock. The MACD is a great indicator. If you are not familiar with it, then you should study it. You will learn that by using MACD divergences that it is a great way to forecast the market.

We call these short timed and limited investment funds "options." This type of trade will give the investor an advantage. The investor will have a lot of advantages as well as less risk. When you watch your stock closely, you will learn which stock to invest in and which stock to stay away from depending on which way the market is moving, up or down.

How do you earn money with options? This is a very important question! For instance, if you think Google will go up over the next 10 months, then you can buy a "call" option contract to lock in a lower price. With this contract you will be allowed to buy Google at the strike price even though the price goes up over the next 10 months.

If you have a strong feeling about the movement of the stock market, weather it is going to go up or down, then you can buy options. With trading options you can earn more money than by trading the traditional ways with stocks. Most of the options expire before 2 years. Ones that last a long time are called "Leaps".

Leverage can work for the "put" options also, and it also gives an advantage over selling stock short. By using "puts", the risk is limited, but if you sell a stock short, the risk is unlimited. All option contracts have an expiration date and there is the direct transaction between sellers and buyers when options are sold over the counter.




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