Category Archives: Stock Market Education

Investment info

Quarterly dividends are earned as long as you are the stockholder of record when dividends are earned. This means you could pick your expiration dates to maximize your dividends yield.  Trading opportunities doesn’t have to take a long time. Online resources offers information you can use to time smart trades.

Trading tips

Options trading tips Investors do not have to become a professional at reading financial statements to master a few fundamentals. Using long term trend summaries is sufficient. What to do before the expiration date Yon can exercise the option You can sell the option You can do nothing, allowing the in-the-money option to be automaticallyContinue reading “Trading tips”

Trading tips

Options trading tips Leverage is generally not conservative because it involves borrowing money to invest. Options are the exception, a form of leverage that does not involve borrowing. Time value (time decay) is  a depreciating  form of price, and the closer the option is to expiration, the faster it decays. Margin for options is notContinue reading “Trading tips”

Different types of options

Describing How These Options Differ From Equity Options -Stock Index Options An index option ( or stock index option) is an option that is based on a stock index or other financial index. All index options are cash settled, meaning there is no delivery of  the underlying stocks in the index. Almost all index optionsContinue reading “Different types of options”