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 [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2007’
Options Trading – Say hello to my good friend Leverage
Options Trading – What are they, why are they useful?
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, [...]
Yahoo SmartAds – Start of the next wave of ad targeting
Well, it was bound to happen, this week Yahoo! announced their SmartAds platform to allow advertisers to better target potential customers as well as more flexibly create ads for specific markets. The flexibility in ad creation is a neat feature for advertisers and seems fairly unique, but the improved targeting is the piece that is really [...]