Monday, December 24, 2012

How Put Options Can Build Wealth

By Dale Poyser


The stock market is without a doubt another of the more famous techniques for you to produce money.

Within the commodity marketplace one very very nice process to establish capital is options trading. I generate 15 t0 20% every single month by trading options, more notably put options.

There are typically two different parts to put options trading.

At this time, there is the actual element involving safety on your individual portfolio sometimes referred to as buying insurance for your stock. Then there is the wealth building, monthly cash flow side aka getting paid to own a stock. Let's have a quick glance at each of those.

Buying Insurance with Put Options

Being the owner of the particular put options contract, you've got the "option" to offer the stock at a certain price up until you sell the actual option or perhaps the option expires.

A good number of investors apply puts to safeguard their trading account from big movements to the downside and furthermore lock in profits.

For example, let's imagine a trader bought a stock and it increased in price by about $10 per share. This will be a really big move.

At this point the question you could be asking is...should you take profits or perhaps let it ride? You also really need to take into consideration that if you do nothing, your profits may very well be wiped out in minutes with some bad news. Taking no action is among the most detrimental actions you can take within the stock market.

So What do you do in that situation?

You may buy a put option with a strike price which is a number of prices below the current price of the stock. By doing this, it will be possible to sell your stock at this strike price regardless of what happens to the cost of the actual stock. For example, if you acquired the stock at $200 and it went up to $250, you can actually purchase the put at $240. With the $240 put option, regardless of how low the stock goes, you can still sell it at $240! So, if the stock drops to $30 per share, you can STILL sell it at $240, think about that for a second...let it sink in.

Making Monthly Passive Income with Put options

On the other hand of this put options coin is the way you may build wealth with options through passive income each month.

In order that the stock buyer to shield his stocks by purchasing protective puts, he will need to have someone ready to sell those put options to him.

I generate an income each month by simply selling put options against stocks I might be willing to own and sometimes even against stocks that I never plan to own.

One of the keys if you want to building wealth with put option selling is always to sell puts for stocks you will not mind buying and to also try to look for stocks which are relatively flat with regards to their price goes. Flat stocks are usually stocks that move not more than $3 in a month and possess really low PE ratios.

I've found that I also have a substantial amount of success through stock trading inside the $20 - $30 price range. Anything higher as well as cheaper tends to be too risky if you ask me.




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