Jason Ng

Options Trading: The Importance of Entry Timing

Entry timing is an important stock trading art made critical in options trading. If timing your entry is critical for stocks which you can hold perpetually, all the more it is critical for options with a finite lifespan. Entry timing means finding the ... Read >

5 Options Trading Mistakes To Avoid

So many options traders have lost their shirts in options trading that almost all investment advisors would advise you against taking a dip into it. However, options trading continues to be one of the most powerful money making method available to the ... Read >

5 Keys To Successful Options Trading

The last decade saw explosive growth in the options trading market all over the world. Options are now available on almost every imaginable asset, from physical to financial assets. In fact, there are now more and more classes of options available for... Read >

5 Reasons Why Options Trading Better Than Stock Trading

Options trading has been the centre of much debate of recent years. Is options trading dangerous? Can we go bankrupt on Options Trading? Indeed, options as a form of derivative instrument is far more complex than the stocks that they are written based on ... Read >

Problems with Swing Trading Using Options

Swing trading is one of the most common ways of trading in the stock market. Whether you know it or not, you probably have been swing trading all these while. Swing trading is buying now and then selling a few days or weeks later when prices are higher, o... Read >

Can You Lose All Your Money In Options Trading?

One of the greatest and most talked about risk in options trading is the fact that you could lose all your money in options trading very quickly. Well, many people lose all their money in stock trading too, so what makes losing all your money in options t... Read >

How To Choose An Options Strategy?

Options trading is as simple as buying call options for rising stocks and put options for falling stocks. However, once you go beyond the initial stage of call and put buying, the whole universe of thousands of options strategies open up before you. Fo... Read >

Why Options Are Better Than Futures For Hedging

Futures trading can be used for two main purposes; Speculation and Hedging. While most retail traders get involved in futures trading for the purpose of leveraged speculation, it cannot be forgotten that the true purpose of futures contracts is for the pu... Read >

The i-Ching of Options Trading

If you are reading this article, chances are that you might have come across or have some kind of knowledge in the term "i-Ching". You must be wondering, how in the world is a five thousand years old classic related to modern options trading? Well, the tr... Read >

Pros and cons of Futures Trading for Stock Speculation

Futures contracts were originally designed as hedging tools or "insurances" for the trading of commodities like wheat. As the production of wheat takes a long time and prices may change for the better or worse during that year those wheat takes to grow to... Read >

How People Lose Their Shirts In Options Trading

You must have heard horror stories surrounding options trading before. Stories such as how some people lose their whole account within a few days and even stories of options traders going bankrupt in express time. These stories have no doubt cast a sha... Read >

1 Biggest Options Trading Mistake Ever

Recently, I have been answering options trading questions posted by options trading beginners at my website and it amazes me to find that MANY of these questions surround a single theme. Some of these questions are like: "I just bought a call option, h... Read >

23 Tips For Profitable Options Trading

1. Read Optiontradingpedia.com. Make sure you know everything about options BEFORE putting down your first trade. 2. Completely understand your trading interface. Most beginners make their first losses through incorrect trade placement due to not being... Read >

Play Bookmaker Writing Put Options

If you have ever placed any bets, you would know that the person who wins most of the time is the bookmaker. Do you know that you too can be a "bookmaker" in the options market by writing put options? Not only can you play "bookmaker" by writing put optio... Read >

Put Options for Down Markets

The worst recession and stock market crisis of recent history hit the world late in 2007, taking the Dow Jones Industrial Index down from a high of 14000 points in October 2007 to about 6400 points in March 2009. Yes, more than 55% of stock market value e... Read >