Stock Options – Overcome the Fear
First, let me tell you what I am not. I am not an expert in stock options. I do not write books, give lectures or host courses teaching stock options. What I am is a part time stock market trader who stumbled upon a way to take some of the risk out of a volatile stock market using stock options. I am a technical stock market trader; I enjoy poring over stock charts trying to squeeze every last bit of information out of the price movement of a stock in order to discover a trend. Over time my trend following “system” worked well enough to provide some nice but moderate profits.
Not too long ago equity markets changed. Negative news both local and global caused wild market price swings. When the overall market swings wildly in either direction it takes 70{afe232c3ea7dcee0a9b500e712c36ed73e0bf8021eb768210a7cfcc3f030476e} of all stocks with it. The result was that …