Recent content by naija

Yes, buying puts is a good strategy to take. You can also reduce the cost of your trades by buying debit put spreads. However that approach will limit your potential gains.

AMZN will continue to move upward in 2016, as it should add more members to its prime program. Still a juggernaut in the cloud market, which people sometimes overlook.

I would be careful with GPRO. Lots of negative sentiment surrounding that equity.

why do you have a put and a call calendar? Why not pick one of the two? Commission for entering and exiting those strikes will eat into the potential profit earned? Also, INTC has been on a rally for 10 out of 13 sessions. If it's earnings report turns out to be poor, you could see INTC's...

It will be a mixed earnings season; I'm bias towards the bearish side. Lets see what happens.

Yes, but you increase your chances when the underlying is liquid.

Looking on Thinkorswim, I am seeing the Yahoo SEP4-15 weekly option calls and put chain. I am not sure an underlying can remove a weekly chain after its already been published, as there are holders and writers of those options once they are published.

Your breakeven is the strike price + the cost of the option. And so if the strike price is 100 and the cost of the option call is $2, then the breakeven is 102.

That's great. Another opportunity to collect short term premium.

TD Ameritrade

Are you planning on buying calls for all those equities you mentioned?

Based on everything you've said, you have a long way to go before taking on options trading as a full time gig. Get back into your line of work, have consistent income, and then establish strategies via trading on simulated platforms (or paper money) for at least a year. From there, start...

I use ThinkOrSwim (TOS) as my trading platform. If that's the platform you use, TOS provides you the put/call ratio at the bottom right of the option chain, under 'Today's Options Statistics".

Deciding to buy a call or put after earnings should be dependent on the underlying equity's fundamentals. You have to understand the business model and value of the equity in question. From there, you should be able to make an educated decision on if its worth entering a long call or put. If...

I wasn't even aware that Google Finance had option chains.