Are all you’re eggs in one basket, your home mortgage for example. For a lot of investors, their largest investment and sometimes their only investment is their home. They quietly make the mortgage payment each month and over the years the value of their home has generally appreciated, sometimes rather nicely, and their home now represents a sizable chunk of their net worth.
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Parity Trading – Option Spreads
In a recent blog article we mentioned some option trading rules of thumb (June 1: Options Trading – Tips of the Trade). Tip #6 outlined the concept of the parity trade. Every options strategy has a parity trade that may be a better value.
Star Analysts – Stock Recommendations
In a couple of recent articles, Analyzing the Analysts – Buy, Hold Or Sell and Buy Stock Recommendations from Top Analysts we focused on examining groups of analysts, their performance record and their stock investing research recommendations. In this article we focus on “star analysts” and we’ll define a “star analyst” as one with an accurate past history of projecting earnings estimates.
Buy Stock Recommendations from Top Analysts
In a previous article entitled “Analyzing the Analysts – Buy, Hold Or Sell“, we analyzed the performance of the stock market research analysts. In this article we list recent buy recommendations of the analysts we consider to be the top performers based on our previous analysis. Additionally, we have created a special search list in order for our customers to search for potential option income opportunities using this list.
Analyzing the Analysts – Buy, Hold Or Sell
The terminology used by stock market research analysts is anything but uniform, many of the analysts use the conventional terms “buy”, “hold” and “sell” for making their stock market research recommendations, which makes sense, as that’s what investors do, buy, hold and sell for their personal stock portfolio.
Options Trading – Tips of the Trade
Options trading can be a full time job for some stock and option investors. For others, you might only spend a couple of minutes a day or a week adjusting and checking your positions. No matter how you use options(you should at least consider using options investing), there are some general option trading rules of thumb that you should keep with you. Perhaps even have them printed and posted where you do your trading.
Auditors: Going Concern for Option Investors
Public companies residing in the U.S. are required to be audited by independent auditors. U.S. public companies must also file an annual report with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), generally known as a 10-K. In each 10-K there is a section entitled “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” outlining the opinion of the auditor concerning the status of the company. Most of the time this section simply says something like: “Corporation maintained effective internal control over financial reporting” and some other miscellaneous information.
optionsXpress Xpo: Options Education
PowerOptions attended, exhibited, and educated at optionsXpress’s first exhibition in Chicago, IL on May 4th and 5th. While the Xpo was open to the public, customers of optionsXpress primarily attended it. About 1,200 investors attended the conference with about 20 exhibitors. There were about 90 options education breakout sessions on a variety of stock option investing subjects. optionsXpress staffers presented half of the sessions. PowerOptions presented 2 sessions.
Home Investing – Stock Investing – Option Investing
Are all you’re eggs in one basket, your home mortgage for example. For a lot of investors, their largest investment and sometimes their only investment is their home. They quietly make the mortgage payment each month and over the years the value of their home has generally appreciated, sometimes rather nicely, and their home now represents a sizable chunk of their net worth.
Money On The Table: Revisited
A few months ago we published one of our most highly read articles titled, Are You Leaving Money on the Table? It compared people who just hang onto stocks to landlords who never rent apartments. It made many people who had at least 100 shares of a stock wonder how much they could make by “renting” that stock.