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When Is a Bullish Spread Not a Bullish Trade?

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Many bullish option positions are purely directional. When we buy call options, we win if the price of the underlying goes up; otherwise we lose, writes Russ Allen of Online Trading Academy. GCI
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Printing Profits in 3-D

As the Fed slowly dials back on QE3, Andrew Giovinazzi of OptionPit.com offers a trade idea based on the expectation that...DDD
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When Should You Trade Weekly Options?

One of the biggest changes in recent years has been the advent and growth of weekly options on the major option exchanges,...
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An Option Play on Higher Interest Rates

Due to fears of rising interest rates, speculators have been running toward exchange-traded funds designed to have low...BKLN
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What the S&P 500 Term Structure Says

Changes in the slope of the VIX term structure have more explanatory power than many of the technical signals and chart...SPY
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Expanding the 1-2-3 Iron Butterfly

Option traders often have "orphan" positions that are left over after all of the profits have been taken from existing...
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The Blue Collar Investor’s Alan Ellman explains how covered call writing gives him a high degree of... (3:31)
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