Tag: options trading
How to Become a Part-Time Options Trader #4: Trading Long Strangles
Do you want to become an options trader but have limited resources? In this case, I recommend trading long strangles for passive income. Trading long strangles differs from selling covered calls because you buy options contracts. It is much cheaper to purchase a call than to sell a covered call. Today, I want to walk…
Covered Calls vs. Cash-Secured Puts 2: The Best Strategy for Intermediates
Options trading can be an exciting hobby, but the stakes are high. As we mature as options traders, we must refine and improve our skill sets. I wrote “Covered Calls vs. Cash-Secured Puts” roughly a year again, so it’s time to dig a little deeper. How do you pick stocks that give great returns? How…
How to Become a Part-Time Options Trader #3: Selling Covered Calls
Now that you have prepared yourself mentally (#1) and saved a nest egg (#2), it’s time to jump into the options market. First, you must decide which technique you want to try. An excellent place to start is selling covered calls for passive income. This strategy presents little risk, but does require a lot of…
How to Become a Part-Time Options Trader #2: Building Your Nest Egg
Options trading is a capital-intensive operation, meaning you’ll need a ton of money to fund your trading. Money is perhaps the reason why most people don’t trade options. Today, I want to walk you through how to build an options trading brokerage account from scratch. During this article, I will use a nasty word that…
How to Become a Part-Time Options Trader #1: Why Trade Options?
There is a lot of money to make in the world of options trading, but you could also lose a ton of money. Sometimes, it feels like a flip of a coin. I have traded options part-time for over two years and have learned much about this profession. That’s right; some people do this for…
Retrirement Plus: Supplement Your Retirement with Options Trading
Trading options during retirement doesn’t fit the typical narrative concerning your happy years. Trading options may sound stressful or anxiety-inducing. However, not having cash flow during retirement is much more stressful than trading options. Without cash flow, retirees are on the raft of life without paddles. Therefore, as retirees, we must determine how options trading…
Don’t Gamble with Retirement 13: Serious Lives Lead to Extraordinary Retirements
Why is being serious considered a bad thing? I was always a serious person, and it has served me well. I joined the Marines 10 days after high school in 1999. In the Marines, I never got passed over for promotion because I always took my job seriously. I retired at 42 and never have…
Trading Long Strangles vs. Mortgage REITs: The Most Hardcore of Income
The goal of life is to make money while you sleep; there is simply no other way to get ahead of life expenses. But how do you make passive income? Some people turn to the stock market to earn dividends while they sleep; others use the options market to create large amounts of passive income.…
The Options Wheel vs. Business Development Companies: The Most Hardcore of Income
The most essential part of your financial plan is cash flow; without it, your plan will fail. Cash flow allows us to make decisions based on the amount of money “moving” through our hands, not “sitting” in a bank. But how do we increase our cash flow? We can get a promotion at work or…
Selling Cash-Secured Puts vs. Preferred Shares: The Most Hardcore of Income
You’ll have to take risks to become wealthy, but how much risk is enough? The answer depends on many factors, the chief of which is your emotion toward money. I absolutely adore preferred shares; however, I must take a gamble to get the best deals. Selling cash-secured puts is relatively safe, but there is a…
Selling Covered Calls vs. Closed-End Funds: The Most Hardcore of Income
What’s the difference between being rich and being wealthy? Rich people have assets that don’t necessarily produce income, for example, a house with $1 million in equity. Wealthy people accumulate assets that produce income, for example, a home that rents for $4,000 per month. It takes much more financial sophistication to be wealthy. I am…
Overcoming Your Limiting Beliefs #2: Options Trading
There is nothing quite as feared as options trading. Whenever people think of options traders, they think of stressed-out bankers on the brink of disaster. However, options trading is really quite logical. There are only two directions that the stock market can move: up and down. From there, you set up your desired options strategies…
Trading Long Strangles vs. Dividends: The Best Passive Strategy
Let’s talk about passive income. I love receiving $2,100 per month in dividends; it’s my favorite part of each month. However, I have $250,000+ invested in the markets. Passive income takes a lot of capital to generate a decent income stream. Options trading can help you close the gap in your income, but it comes…
Stocks, Bonds, & Options in Your 60s: Ensuring a Great Retirement
Our 60s should be a time of joy and celebration. In fact, the only stress we should have is from babysitting our grandkids. But these magical times don’t just happen; we must create them. We must build a level of financial sophistication that ensures we can weather any economic storm. This foundation starts by understanding…
Selling Covered Calls vs. Trading Long Strangles 2: Combine Them For More Passive Income
Options trading isn’t for everyone, but that doesn’t mean most people should overlook this incredible opportunity to make passive income. Americans put far too much emphasis on their W-2 jobs while passing over other opportunities to make money. Many times, we exclude other opportunities because of fear of the unknown or the possibility of risk.…
Dividends & Options Trading: A Beginner’s Guide to Passive Income
Why does everyone seem to be obsessed with the stock market? What is all this talk about treasury yields, dividends, and stock prices? The truth is that many people turn to the stock market to generate passive income for today and tomorrow. If you are not in the markets, you and your family could have…
Selling Covered Calls vs. Trading Long Strangles: What Are Your Passive Income Goals?
Why do people decide to trade options? It can be a very dangerous and risky proposition for most traders, so why all of the love? Options trading can be a lucrative wealth generator if you take the time to learn the ropes and create a system that works for you. “The Options Playbook” discusses over…
King of the Long Strangles: Inside My Favorite Options Trading Strategy
I never imagined becoming a part-time options trader; however, things changed after reading “Rich Dad Poor Dad.” When I turned 18, I became a government employee, signing up for the United States Marine Corps (Ooh Rah!). I did what the government asked of me inside the Corps, paying little attention to my finances. I had…
Stocks, Bonds, & Options in Your 50s: Extracting What We Need From Capital Markets
It’s time to take the world by storm. In our 50s, we clearly see how we want the back halves of our lives to look. We know how much we want to travel, spend, and give. Now, it is all about creating and executing a plan with extreme passion. For obvious reasons, money will play…
Preparing for a Recession #4: Making More Money
A recession is not the time to start adding income to your bottom line; you should start that process well before the balloon goes up. We must all prepare for the reality that we will lose our jobs during a recession. Similarly, we should learn how to generate income outside a W-2 job to control…
