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Investor’s stock portfolio can greatly benefit from simple uses of stock options. With much of your savings invested, it’s smart to use options to both protect your portfolio as well as earn extra income from your portfolio assets.

Investor’s stock portfolio can greatly benefit from simple uses of stock options. With much of your savings invested, it’s smart to use options to both protect your portfolio as well as earn extra income from your portfolio assets.

The Idiot’s Guide To Options Trading

Posted by theWild1 on November 17th, 2009

I have to admit for the longest time I’ve been meaning to learn options trading. Not only because it is a great way to hedge your risk, but it seems like all the top traders utilize options in some form or another.

We’ve already covered the effect options expiration can have on the overall market, but lets learn a little bit more about this form of trading.

On the back of a MONSTER week for the stock market, the question may be - Can this rally hold? I like everyone else can't answer this question, but I do know that there are ways to protect a stock without selling it and/or spending money on put options. Simply sell call options on the stock to generate income (which lowers cost basis per share), for the closest option expiration.

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