Author: Mark Wolfinger

Are you an investor who has not yet learned about the risk-reducing properties of options and how adopting conservative strategies can preserve the value of your portfolio?If not, that’s a shame because if you had been...

Important note: There is one major misconception that is fairly common among option rookies. It leads to a great deal of confusion and I want to be certain that it never happens to you. This discussion is...

In a forum I frequent, I recently came across this innocent sounding question: “Can anyone make money consistently when trading options?” I don’t know if the poster was thinking about learning to trade options...

I can always count on Dr. Brett Steenbarger, trading coach, trader, blogger and psychologist to come up with interesting commentary. “Emotional diversification: the degree to which the happiness and contentment in your...

I’ve been reading a variety of blogs and have come across some interesting ideas that are applicable to my world – that of an options investor/trader. One such post (a guest post, written by Ramit) warns readers that...

Jared at Condor Options eloquently expressed an opinion that I share.Because he makes it sound so obvious, I want readers of this blog to benefit from the comment: “Although the investing public seem to have little...

I’ve often stated that closing your eyes and hoping for a good outcome (the equivalent of doing nothing) from an investment is not a good idea and that ‘hope’ is not a strategy. Agreeing with that idea, Jack...

Choosing An Appropriate Strategy, Continued An introduction to the idea of selecting an investment method when using options was recently posted, and I suggested a few of the options strategies that I trade.The first one...