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Trading Options Tutorials

No one walks into trading options casually. The truth is, it takes tons of education and knowledge as well as a deep commitment to forecasting and profiting from the markets. Whether it’s having the discipline to trade options regularly without losing sight of profit goals or making sure you constantly educate yourself with material to make your option trades better, you won’t get there overnight. For our beginners, here’s a basic overview of what options are and why you should trade options to strengthen your portfolio: Trading Options Tutorials

Options are a reserve on a price. You can reserve the right to buy an asset, referred to as a call option, or reserve the right to sell that asset, a put option. Call options are a long strategy, meaning that they benefit when the stock rises in price because now you have the right to buy it at a lower reserved price, whereas put options are a short option because you benefit when the asset lowers in price. The great part is, you realize the same profit buying a call option when the stock rises as does someone who purchased the stock, only with a fraction of the initial investment.

So one of the advantages with options is additional leverage. Rather than being forced to work with equities that force you to throw down thousands of dollars to make money from a stock rally, you can simply buy the option and do the same thing. They’re an essential tool for forecasting price action.

In addition, trading options offers more versatility than trading stock. When trading stock, there are only three strategies: buy, sell, and hold. With options, the playbook is huge and can offer numerous different tactics for making money when the market goes up, down or sideways. From the most conservative option trades like the covered call and the calendar spread to more complex tactics such as back ratios, butterflies and iron condors, there are strategies out there for every market and every option trader. Trading Options Tutorials

There are three essential rules to remember when you first start trading options that will help keep you out of trouble:

1. Never trade more than you can afford to lose. This is called risk capital. If you risk more than 2-5 percent of your account in a single trade or risk more than you might make in a single paycheck at your day job, you are putting yourself on the fast track to failure by not defending yourself from risk well enough. Insulate yourself with capital and you will stay out of trouble.

2. Avoid positions with unlimited risk. If you sell a call, hedge against potential losses by buying another call or the stock itself to cover your position rather than risking infinite loss should the stock rally.

3. Continuously educate yourself! No one gets to be a millionaire with one or two secret systems or a single box set of DVD’s and a few extra hours of work per week. It takes hard work and persistence, so be prepared to keep a student mentality when moving forward into the options arena, and someday you can enjoy independence and wealth without having to keep a 9 to 5 like many retail traders do. Trading Options Tutorials

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