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    Options Trading for Beginners: Investing Strategies You Need to Know to Generate Passive Income through Options Trading
    Options Trading for Beginners: Investing Strategies You Need to Know to Generate Passive Income through Options Trading
    Options Trading for Beginners: Investing Strategies You Need to Know to Generate Passive Income through Options Trading
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    Options Trading for Beginners: Investing Strategies You Need to Know to Generate Passive Income through Options Trading

    By Tim Shek

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    Are you looking to learn about investing?


    Are there too many sources?


    Are there too many books that are full of technical jargon that nobody understands?


    No idea where to get started?


    If your answer is "yes", then this book is the #1 guide to get you started.


    Maybe you have money sitting in the bank that's not growing. Maybe inflation is eating it out faster than your dog would eat through a fried chicken. Maybe you made some bad investments in the past and are weary about the future.


    The answer to all the above concerns is knowledge; and putting that knowledge to the test. The benefit of this book is that it explains the concepts of options in layman's terms. There is a section on technical terms; which explains each of them clearly.


    You can learn why options trading is better than most investments out there.


    While there are a 100 different ways to invest your money, there are very few ways to help reduce your downside risk. Options Trading, if done right, can help hedge against bad stock performance. However, options trading is very confusing; with lots of methods, long definitions and puzzling contracts. The media also tends to simplify the stock market by talking about stocks and bonds only. As a result, most people do not bother looking into options. Heck, a lot of people haven't even heard of options trading.


    But, I assure you, options trading can be significantly profitable; and a great complement to your exisiting investment portfolio.


    Here's What's Included In this Book: How Options Can be Superior to Stocks and how you can use this knowledge to maximize your profits


    5 of the very best brokerages to get you started investing in options Why the "Strike Price" is the a very important part of an Options Chain; and other common definitions The one method used by Options Traders to Generate Passive Income in a Recession Why a 'Put' Option is safer than a 'Short' in a recession with several examples The Best Indicator to Determine if you are in a Bear or Bull Market 5 Advanced Options Strategies to take your Income to the Next Level


    Many traders avoid options because of the myth that options are risky, difficult to understand, and that a good number of options expire worthlessly. However, this is not true. After reading this book, your mindset will change completely, and you will start seeing options trading differently.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbiprod
    Release dateJul 20, 2019
    ISBN9781081670023

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      Options Trading for Beginners - Tim Shek

      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents

      The Basics of Options Trading

      Options at the Core

      But are they the Same as Stocks?

      More Examples

      How and Where to Open an Options Account in the USA

      The difference between Level 0, 1, 2, and 3 Accounts

      The Call

      The Put

      Buying

      Selling

      Underlying Stock

      Expiration Date

      Strike Price

      Premium

      Time Value

      Exercise

      Some basic Options Quotes and examples

      Advanced Options Quote: The Options Chain

      The Covered Calls

      What is a Covered Call?

      Examples of Buying and Selling

      The Benefits of This

      How to Find the Best Assets for Covered Calls

      How to Find the right Strike Price for A Covered Call

      A Step-By-Step Way to Sell Covered calls

      Step One: Beginning with Choosing the Underlying Security

      Step Two: Calculating Before Writing

      Step Three: Heading to the Brokerage to Fill Out the Sheet

      Step Four: Watching the Market

      Writing Tips

      All About Buying Covered Calls

      What is Buying a Covered Call

      The benefits of Buying Covered Calls

      All About Open Interest

      The Risks of Covered Calls

      Finding the Right Stock and Strike Price for a Covered Call

      How to Buy a Successful Covered Call

      What About Naked Calls?

      Buying and Selling Puts

      What is Buying and Selling Puts?

      Selling Puts in this Market

      An Example of Buying a Put

      The risks of it

      The Advantages of Buying Puts

      The Advantages of Selling Puts

      How to find the right Put for Yourself

      The Rookie Mistake

      Why Puts are the Solution for Option Prices Plunging

      Naked Puts

      Advanced Strategies

      Buying Straddles

      Buying Strangle

      The Call Ratio Backspread

      The Put Ratio backspread

      The Butterfly Spread-Long Put Butterfly

      Trading Options with ETFs

      Knowing your Markets

      The Bear Market

      Bull markets

      Trading in Bear Markets

      Trading in Bull Markets

      How to Spot these Markets

      Conclusion

      The Risks of Options Trading

      How to be Careful

      Successful Options Traders

      Resources for Options Traders

      The Basics of Options Trading

      For many people, the first thing to touch on is what exactly options are. Here, we’ll go into detail on what options trading is, along with some critical examples that can help you.

      Options at the Core

      Let’s go to the very basics of options trading. Options are essentially contracts that give the investor a chance to buy or sell securities, such as an index or commodity, at a fixed price within a fixed period of time. So, the investor can buy or sell the security at that price irrespective of the actual trading price. He can also do so any time within the fixed period.

      Buying and selling options are done within a market, and from there, these trades are done on contracts for various securities. If you buy an option, it allows you to buy shares later on, and they are called calls. If you sell these shares later, it’s called put options.

      So let’s take an example where you have a house that is worth $1 million, and you then are given the option to buy the house at 800K over the next 3 months. So you pay a 2% fee of this to the seller for the option itself. 2% of the house is 20000 dollars of course, and you simply pay that for the option. So you have the house essentially as an option to buy within the next 3 months.

      Now, let’s say that three months have passed, and now you can choose whether or not you want to buy the house, or sell the house. In this, you’re the buyer of the option, so you’re the one who chooses whether or not you want to buy the house, and the one who is selling the house is, of course, the seller. Of course, you have to pay the 2% options fee regardless. So, if you after a few months want to buy the house and from there, if it increases, you can buy it at a much smaller margin than what it may be.

      So, let’s say the home value increases to 110000. You buy it at 80000 as per the contract. From there, it can be sold again in order to net a 280K profit (300K price increase – 20K fee). This is something that you should definitely act upon. It’s used in real estate investing too.

      But, let’s say that you end up seeing the house depreciate over time, and now, unfortunately, after 3 months it’s $700,000, which is 100K less than what you were prompted to pay for it. You should at this point choose not to buy the house, and while you do lose the options fee, it’s not much. Because after all, losing 20 grand is much better than losing 100 grand, right?

      Options are essentially the option to buy something, and you can choose whether or not you want to invest in this or not (after a certain period of time).

      But are they the Same as Stocks?

      Nope. That’s the short answer. But the long answer is because they aren’t representing the part of the company that you have owned. Instead they’re basically contracts of different investments, and for many people, they are better because you can walk away at any point.

      With stocks, if you invest in it, unfortunately, you're stuck in it until you cash out, or you sell it to someone else. That means that there is more risk there.

      However, when you buy and sell options, the trader or the investor does not have to invest in the stock at the end of the options period if he does not want to. Options are usually considered derivative securities, which entails that the price is derived from another value in the assets, or other underlying instruments. They are less risky than stocks, as long as you use these correctly.

      With options trading, you will have to pay an options fee. So even if you do not end up investing in the stock, it’ll need to be paid.

      Investors use these because they are bets on whether something will go up, down, or hedge, and we’ll go into deeper details on what all of that means later.

      More Examples

      Let’s take a look at a couple more examples of different types of options. Let’s talk about stock options because this is  one of the areas where beginner investors look at.

      So, let’s say you have stock XYZ that’s at a certain number. Let’s say you can buy that stock for 50 grand, and that’s the option. So you could get that stock for 50 grand and let’s say that option expires at the end of 3 months. You agree to buy this stock, and then a 2% fee, which is a grand.  You then put down 1000 dollars on that, and you watch it.

      Now let’s say that after 3 months, this company does something super awesome, and from there, you notice their profits markedly increase. It ends up increasing to 150K in the stock share, and you’re like of course I’ll take that share and you decide to do that. That’s an example of the stock actually increasing, and you totally buy that option from another. That means you’re netting a 99K (100K profit – 1 K fee) profit, which is pretty killer, and you can from there sell the shares of that stock to others to net even more money. That is a contract that you can utilize.

      But, let’s now look at a second scenario. Let’s say that you see the company tank. Which sucks, but that does happen when bad decisions are made, and everyone makes poor choices. It happens, but that means that the stock is going down, and it falls down the tubes. It only has a value of 10 grand now, which means it’s a 40K decrease if you choose to buy it. Now if you have faith in this stock somehow that it can magically recover, you might take the risk. But for beginner traders, you know better than that than to stick around with a sinking ship, so you refuse to buy. You lose about a grand, but of course, that’s not much compared to how much you could’ve lost if you actually bought the stock.

      That’s an example of how it is used in stocks, which is another type of contractual obligation that you can utilize in order to get the full results from this.

      Next, let’s take more examples of company investments. Let’s say you’ve got this company that you have a chance to buy. Let’s say that the going rate for this company is $2 million, but you have an option to buy the establishment for $1.5 million after a 6-month period. This could be a great investment, and you end up putting down the options fee, which let’s say is about 5 grand. Now, you watch this company, and it’s doing super well. The value of the company increases to 3 million after 6 months. You’d want to jump on that immediately, so you end up investing in this over time. That would be the smart option for this. You end up buying it. But, in a second scenario, let’s say there’s a problem with the

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