Insights on OCBC Securities – A Practical Guide to Precise Entry and Exit
Recently I attended a free Seminar organised by OCBC Securities on a Practical Guide to Entry and Exit. The speaker that shared his thoughts with...
Guide to Investing Options [Options Clearing Corporation]
1. Basics: When you purchase an option –> Long position Write an option –> Short position 2. Set your Strategy –...
Volatility Skew Information
Volatility Skew – situation where individual options on a particular entity have different implied volatilities that form a pattern – the pattern can be a...
About our Volatility Data – Implied Volatility and Historical Volatility
Estimate of the volatility of the underlying stock Low implied volatility –> Option considered cheap Don’t blindly buy or sell based on Implied Volatility. There...
Covered Call Writing: Why Cash- Base Put Selling is Superior
Naked Put Selling = Covered call writing (but naked is better strategy due to lower cost) Covered call requires 2 commissions (stock and written call)....
Put – Call Ratios
The trading volume of put options to call options indicates the Investor Sentiment How to interpret put-call ratio: – higher ratio: time to sell but...
Which Option To Buy: Deciding What Contract Is Best
(i) Day Trading – Uses the underlying instrument with the highest possible delta (trade the stock, NOT the option) (ii) Short term Trading (1 to...
Options Trading Glossary
Backspread Any spread in which in-the-money options are sold and a greater quantity of out-of-the-money options are bought. In a more general sense, it may...
Free Online Courses (Other than Google) to Upgrade Yourself
As a continuation from my previous post on Free Google Courses Recommended, I have researched and tried out the free courses available online. I cannot...
Google Courses to Sign Up For
As a follow up from my previous post on how to save yourself from being retrenched, one of my tips was to improve on existing...