Options Strategies For Investors

OIC Instructor Barry Nobel of NASDAQ OMX PHLX chats with Joe Harwood, Manager of Investor Relations at the Options Clearing Corporation and Joe Burgoyne, OIC Director of Retail Marketing and host of Options Talk with OIC, about some of their favorite stories from the trading floor.

In this podcast, the viewer will learn about the dynamics of straddles and strangles and how to implement these advanced strategies when trading options.

OIC Instructor Alan Grigoletto explains what a diagonal spread is and discusses how this strategy may work during the expiration of a short-term option.

This podcast discusses how changing volatility can impact options pricing and how vertical spreads can provide traders with an alternative to long and short options positions.

This eighth podcast of the Understanding and Trading Options Spread Strategies series briefly outlines the similarities between debit and credit spreads.

In this podcast, OIC Instructor Alan Grigoletto concludes his discussion about various credit spreads strategies with an explanation of the Bull Put Spread.

This podcast gives an example of how the Bear Put Spread can be implemented into an options trading strategy and what distinguishes it from the Bear Call Spread.

OIC Instructor Alan Grigoletto introduces the Bear Call Spread and shows how this particular options strategy can be used within the marketplace.

This fourth podcast defines the Bull Call Spread and demonstrates how this strategy can be used to evaluate potential outcomes for a particular option.

In this third podcast of the Understanding and Trading Options Spread Strategies series, OIC Instructor Alan Grigoletto explains what a spread is and why it is important to your profit/loss potential.

This podcast discusses the impact that stock price changes and time can have in the market and how concepts such as delta and time decay can help set the tone for how an option performs.

In this first podcast of the Understanding and Trading Options Spread Strategies series, OIC Instructor Alan Grigoletto reviews essential options basics and discusses some of the mechanics that go into buying and selling options.

OIC Instructor Steve Meizinger wraps up this final podcast in the Developing a Trading Strategy series by taking questions from the audience on topics such as trailing stops and mitigating gap risk.

In this podcast, OIC Instructor Steve Meizinger concludes his discussion about the Greeks and highlights some of the risks and rewards that you should be aware of when formulating your plan for trading options.

In this fourth podcast of the Developing a Trading Strategy series, OIC Instructor Steve Meizinger provides a basic introduction of the Greeks and explains how these risk gauges can help form expectations about how an option may perform in the market.

In this podcast, you will learn about what to consider when implementing a forecast and the role an investor needs to take in order to actively manage their options positions.

This podcast discusses some of the psychological aspects behind trading options and how understanding various strategies can help you develop your own personalized trading style.

In this first podcast of the Developing a Trading Strategy series, OIC Instructor Steve Meizinger introduces basic elements to consider when creating a plan for trading options.

This final podcast of the series explains the use of Static Return and the If-Called Return as a way to determine the potential return on a covered call strategy.

OIC Instructor Al Brinkman concludes his discussion on options pricing models then delves into the topic of covered calls and corresponding income strategies.