What Is The Option Chain?

What Is The Option Chain?

If you’re new to options, one of the key things to understand is the option chain. This is where you’ll find available options contracts for calls and puts for most stocks, as well as the strike prices and pricing information. As Robinhood explains it: An option chain is like a restaurant menu. It tells you […]

Using Options To Juice Your Fixed Income Returns

Using Options To Juice Your Fixed Income Returns

The Federal Reserve’s ultra-low interest rate policy and quantitative easing programs are regularly debated among economists, armchair analysts, and everyone in between. Monetary policy can be pretty complex, with hundreds of variables to consider. So, it’s not a huge surprise that there’s so much disagreement on policy. Most studies have shown that the Fed’s increasingly […]

Flash Crash Fundamentals

Flash Crash Fundamentals

Last Monday, a stock market “mini-crash” scared a lot of investors, with many questioning whether this was the start of the next big market drop. Fortunately, it was just a one-day scare, but a day like last Monday helps reinforce some lessons for long-term investors. To start, despite the myriad reasons floated by the financial […]

Trade of the Week: CCL

Trade of the Week: CCL

This past week, there was 3x the Carnival (CCL) normal options volume, the cruise line giant. Cruise line stocks have been very active during the pandemic, but CCL got a big boost last week when it announced that it would be ramping up capacity through the end of the year. What’s more, the company is […]

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Which Annuity Is Best for You?

When it comes to guarantees, don’t assume anything! A guarantee is a promise or assurance. While a written contractual guarantee strengthens your legal position, it’s only as solid as the person, government, company, insurer and court system standing behind it. In our article “How Good Is Your Comfortable Retirement Guarantee?”, I assumed some investments were guaranteed, […]

3 Stocks I’m Seeing Breakout While the Market is Choppy

3 Stocks I’m Seeing Breakout While the Market is Choppy

We’re seeing the market drop 700 points, then recover the next day… The very definition of a “choppy market.” And if you’re an active participant in the market, I don’t blame you if it’s a bit frustrating especially as many breakouts aren’t holding. However, I have spotted 3 stocks that look promising… They’ve been setting […]

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How To Get Paid To Sell Stocks

My goal with my different income-focused services is to help my subscribers earn more money than they would by following the old-school types of investment advice. I recommend higher yields in my Dividend Hunter service. For my dividend growth newsletter, Monthly Dividend Multiplier, I do not settle for the 2.5% to 3% yields that you […]