Option Trading Strategies: Ways To Fight Your Own Desires And Come Out A Winner. PDF Print E-mail
Written by Cidwell Combs   
Saturday, 20 March 2010 16:23
Trading options can be a very lucrative part-time or full-time source of income. You should always keep a few common sense principles in mind though. Below are a few option trading strategies that most newbie traders should find useful.
by CidwellCombs


Trading options can be a very lucrative part-time or full-time source of income. You should always keep a few common sense principles in mind though. Below are a few option trading strategies that most newbie traders should find useful.

When you trade options, you can trade much higher amounts than you would otherwise have been able to. You could for example buy an option on a hundred shares in a particular company while only risking one percent of the money usually required to buy a hundred shares.

This sounds wonderful. The principle is called leverage and can indeed make you a lot of money - when you are right. It's not uncommon to double your money in a relatively short period of time.

The downside is that it's not uncommon to lose all your money in a short time either. That is why you should have a rule NEVER to risk more than five percent of your investment portfolio on a single option. Don't let dreams of riches cloud your judgement.

If you put all the money in your investment account on one option and things go wrong you will lose everything. It's true that you can make a fortune if things work out, but the risk involved is simply too high.

The one single reason why many people lose large amounts of money when trading options is because they allow greed to guide their actions instead of common sense. They get to excited by the prospect of doubling or trebling their trading account within a short time that they stop employing common sense.

Your best weapon with options trading, as with any other form of investment, is diversification. The potential profits from a single successful trade is so high that it can easily offset losses from four bad trades.

When you diversify, you should keep in mind that buying options on five different types of platinum mining stocks is not true diversification. It could easily happen that all of them go down, because they are in the same industry. You should therefore have a balanced portfolio with stocks from different industries in the same way as if you were buying the full-priced stocks.

Option trading strategies should therefore always involve a good dose of common sense. Don't ever let greed get the upper hand. Then you are no longer trading, you are gambling.

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.

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