Monday, November 19, 2012

Weekly Options - How To Generate A Weekly Paycheck

By Ted Nino


Once frequently used approach by option traders is the Credit Spread. Along with being one of the easier option trading strategies to understand, another reason newer option traders in particular gravitate to this strategy is that it can take very little time to manage it while it is on. Therefore, sticking to the computer screens and checking out the fluctuations in the market is not anymore compulsory for any credit spread sellers just so they can consistently generate their income.

The vertical spread is an essential element to numerous other option spread strategies including the iron condor, the butterfly spread, the double diagonal and others. Once new weekly option traders have finished purchasing straight calls and puts, covered calls, and debit spreads, they more often than not use this approach once they know their options.

As long as the weekly options trades are suitably invested, vertical spreads can highly help in the success of the investment. In addition, the investor still gains the right profit without necessarily going along with the price direction and movement. If the credit spreads sold suitably, the trader is highly benefited because they can actually continue to have their monthly return even if for an instance, their anticipation of where the stock market is heading next could be mistaken.

Let's take XYZ stock as an example. Let's say our trader is bearish on this stock. With the XYZ trading high at the present, our trader can then give a anticipation whether the stock market would go up or not. They coudl choose to believe that it would not move any higher. And so a bear call spread is sold by the trader. This spread is actually a vertical spread that is very helpful for neutral to bearish situation.

This spread trade wins if our Weekly Options trader's anticipation is correct. That is, when the stock moves down. If the stock does absolutely nothing and just remains trading at it's current level, this trade wins. If the stock moves up which means that the prediction of our trader is mistaken, the trade can still win. This is only if the stock market doesn't move at a faster rate. With our trader's right handling of situations, this trade can still make profit even for a fact that it could certainly lose when the stock market moves up too high and too fast.




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