Option Volume and Open Interest

Option Volume and Open Interest

The decisions of millions of investors and traders affect the price movements in the options market. There are many useful statistics in addition to price movement that indicate what other market participants are doing. This article will focus on two factors many...
Effective Goal Setting

Effective Goal Setting

With the New Year upon us, this is the time of year that many of us take a bit of time to reflect on the past year's accomplishments, and renew our goals for the current trading year in order to strive for greater success.  This week's article will cover some...
4 Core Concepts…

4 Core Concepts…

Call Options, Put Options, Standard Options and Mini-Options As stated in last week's article “How an Option is Similar to an Insurance Policy, ” the definition of an option is: “An option is a financial derivative that represents a contract sold by...