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SIV – Stock Implied Volatility and Stock Earnings

Q: What is the SIV data and search parameter that PowerOptions provides? A: As you know, historical stock volatility can be measured in many ways: 20-day volatility, 50-day volatility, 100-day volatility, etc. Rather than use the historical trading range of the stock to measure volatility, investors will use the SIV.

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Investing with the Naked Put Strategy

During this Open Discussion presentation, Mike Chupka, PowerOptions Director of Option’s Education, answers questions on using the patented PowerOptions Suite of Tools. In this presentation, Mr. Chupka starts off using a Naked Put search for weekly options to see if there are any new securities that have weeklies available for the next expiration cycle. Following that, he covers topics based on customer queries such as: (select below to view video)

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Cut your losers short, but let your winners run

During this presentation Kurt Frankenberg shows, for no charge, the one simple thing to make you a more successful investor. Every successful trader who describes their success falls back on one simple axiom: “Cut your losers short, but let your winners run.” Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But, how many of us actually implement this in our own personal trades? Kurt’s RadioActive Trading techniques begin at a place where an investor is essentially forced to cut their losers short with the opportunity to let their winners run…and that basic step is given away for free in this recorded webinar (to view, click below).

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Stock Option Trading Open Discussion

First, Mr. Chupka indulges himself by using the Naked Put Search to identify just those securities that offer Weekly options, to see if any new securities were released on Thursday, January 6th, 2011. After the initial Search was completed, those results were further screened using various parameters in the patented PowerOptions Search tool. (click on the image below to view the video) Mr. Chupka then answers questions from the attendees regarding:

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Solving the Problem of Stop-Orders and Leverage

In this presentation, Kurt Frankenberg discusses the advantages of the RadioActive Trading techniques over a simple stop-order, the risks of leverage in your trading and two of his TEN income methods that he applies against his protected positions. (click on image below to view video)

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Twas the Day of Expiration – (2010)

by: Michael Chupka, PowerOptions (www.poweropt.com) Director Of Education ‘Twas the day of Expiration, and all through the market, A Cautious optimism kept closed the wallets. Recent Index highs hung over as a dare; Gold and silver had run up without a care. (Click on the video below and check it out!)

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Cut Your Loser Investments Short…and Let Your Winners Run

In this RadioActive Trading webinar, Kurt Frankenberg discusses the simple rule that all investors have heard, but rarely implement in their personal accounts. “Cut your losers short…and let your winners run.” As simple as this sounds, it is much harder to put it into actual practice. Many stock options investors will establish ‘hedged’ positions that in fact do the exact opposite…cut your winners short with the potential to let your losers run. That is a recipe for investing disaster.

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Follow Up: New Weekly Options Listings and a Quarterly Options Update

As you may have heard, Weekly Options have been released for several common stocks as we have previously discussed. Some new stocks have been added, and some other changes have been made. On June 25th, 2010, Weekly Options were made available for 4 common stocks: Apple (AAPL), Bank of America (BAC), British Petroleum (BP) and Citigroup (C). On July 16th, Weekly Options were made available on four more stocks: Amazon (AMZN), Ford Motor Co. (F), Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT). On July 23rd, Weekly Options were available on 5 new stocks: Barrick Gold (ABX), Baidu (BIDU), Goldman Sachs (GS), Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).