Posts under ‘Education’

I just finished taking the BBC’s “Brain Sex” test.  It took about 15 minutes, I highly recommend it.  You can learn a lot about yourself, and it is a fun way to work your brain a bit.  Don’t worry, its a family friendly test! 
Toward the end of the test, there is an interesting question that has a [...]

Several years ago I picked up a copy of Robert Allen’s book Multiple Streams of Income and read it over the course of a weekend.  I don’t remember it as being a terribly substantial book, but the premise has stuck with me. 
To be a prudent investor, one must diversify their investments.  When you think of diversification [...]

In recent articles (Options Basics, Options Leverage) I’ve discussed using options to boost your leverage and reduce capital requirements on making a big play.  Options, while risky, can limit the amount of cash you need to put into a trade and can allow you to use your available cash to highly leverage your position without taking [...]

I’ve been writing about  my experience with options trading for a while now and feel like I often have to explain options-related terminology within my articles so I’ve decided to just post a quick glossary of terms that I’ll be able to refer to in future articles.  This is just a basic list, but ought to cover [...]

Why do options offer any advantage over trading stocks? They’re riskier, since they expire within a certain amount of time and their values are more complicated to assess.
Because they expire on a given date, the investor has to make a choice within a relatively short time frame.  In my earlier post, I think this expiration [...]

I’ve been experimenting with options as a way to turbo charge my portfolio for the past year or so. Overall, I’d say my trades so far have been a wash, but I still think it is a very valuable strategy to heavily leverage your portfolio and limit your risk. In discussing options trades with friends, [...]