Uncle Bobs Money: Generating Income with Conservative Options Trades
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WE BELIEVE:
Proven money-making secrets should not belong to the privileged few.
Every investor should know how to generate income using conservative options trades so the risk of loss is low.
It's important to shatter the mystery and secrecy to end the status quo, where options pit traders and large investment firms with math geniuses onboard are able to earn consistently using options trades while the rest struggle to find the same strategies they use.
TO THIS END:
This book provides all the learning materials you need to understand how to make income-generating options trades.
You can learn what you need to know, then walk away to start trading options profitably without ever coming back to us.
But we do hope you'll join our community of successful options investors, where you'll access super-easy tools to take the processes of successfully finding, trading and monitoring your options trades to maximum profitability.
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Uncle Bobs Money - Uncle Bob Williams
Uncle Bob’s Money
Generating Income
with Conservative
Options Trades
By Uncle Bob Williams
www.UncleBobsMoney.com
Copyright 2011 Jumping Ahead, Inc.
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DISCLAIMER
Neither Jumping Ahead, Inc. nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents or independent contractors (collectively, the Operator Parties
) are licensed financial advisers, registered investment advisers or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial or legal advice, and nothing in this book or on the UncleBobsMoney.com website should be construed as such by you. This book and the UncleBobsMoney.com website should be used as an educational tool only and is not a replacement for licensed investment advice. You should seek advice from an independent financial advisor if you have any questions relating to the information found on, or your activities in connection with, this book or the UncleBobsMoney.com website.
The full disclaimer can be found at the end of this book.
Options are not suitable for all investors as the special risks inherent to options trading may expose investors to potentially rapid and substantial losses. Please read Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options
before investing in options, available at: http://www.optionsclearing.com
CONTENTS
Introduction
1 Stocks vs. Options
2 Understanding The Profit / Loss Graph
3 Options Terminology
4 Parts of an Option
5 Types of Options Orders
6 Volatility & Standard Deviation
7 The Greeks
8 Market Gap
9 Options Tools
10 Strategy: The Iron Condor
11 Strategy: The Calendar
12 Strategy: The Double Diagonal
13 Strategy: The Butterfly
14 Speculative & Taxes
15 Disclaimer
WE BELIEVE
Proven money-making secrets should not belong to the privileged few.
Every investor should know how to generate income using conservative options trades so the risk of loss is low.
It's important to shatter the mystery and secrecy to end the status quo, where options pit traders and large investment firms with math geniuses onboard are able to earn consistently using options trades while the rest struggle to find the same strategies they use.
TO THIS END:
This book provides all the learning materials you need to understand how to make income-generating options trades.
You can learn what you need to know, then walk away to start trading options profitably without ever coming back to us.
But we do hope you'll join our community of successful options investors, where you'll access super-easy tools to take the process of successfully finding, trading and monitoring your options trades to maximum profitability.
— — — — — — — -
This is not a typical What are Options
course. We can find plenty of well written and technical explanations about Options and Options strategies at almost every Broker that provides Options Trading.
For standard explanations, we suggest reviewing the current list at:
http://www.UncleBobsMoney.com/links
We are going to try to show what Options are, and what specific information we need to know to successfully trade the Strategies at Uncle Bob’s Money:
http://www.UncleBobsMoney.com
[1] STOCKS VS. OPTIONS
Stocks and Options are very different and when we understand the difference, it will remove all of the mystery, mystique and 'danger' from Options.
If we buy a stock, say 100 shares of Acme Company for $50 per share, which works out to be a $5,000 total investment, plus a transaction fee from our Broker:
=> We now own part of Acme Company.
=> We may get paid dividends from profits that Acme Company makes, and we may be entitled to vote on certain company actions, and if we have enough stock we may actually control the company.
=> Our investment has a 50% chance of going up or down.
=> The Profit / Loss graph of our investment in Acme Company looks like this.
Since the risk a stock will go up or down is 50/50, and since the value of the stock can go to zero, many people like to buy Mutual Funds. If we buy a Mutual Fund that tracks the S&P 500, our investment risk is still 50/50, but that risk is spread out over 500 companies. The hope is that all 500 companies will do well overall; meaning that they hope the share price overall will go Up and that the risk of all 500 companies going bankrupt is small.
For people who are more advanced Stock Traders, they will also sell a Stock that they don't own, which is called Selling Short
or just Short
. These Traders are betting that the Stock price will go down, and they will be able to buy the shares they just sold at a lower price. IE: We sell 100 shares of the stock at $50 per share (we get paid $5,000), and if the price goes down to say $49 per share, we buy the 100 shares that we sold before but didn't own. (It cost us $4,900 to buy those shares.) And we walk away with a $100 profit.
So, all the above should be clear for most people who have Stock and Mutual Fund investments.
What the heck is an Option?
An Option is not a Stock, and it doesn't work like a Stock, so when we think about Options, we need to remove our Stock Thinking
hat, and put on a new hat that is quite similar to an Insurance Policy. Yep, Options are like Insurance.
Let’s buy an Option on Acme Company stock. (we'll get into the parts of an Option next - but let’s first look at the basics, how the Option compares to a Stock.) It's OK if you don't understand the Options Terminology that follows, we will explain them shortly. Let's say that we buy 1 Contract, on a CALL Option at the $53 Strike which has an Expiration 2 months from now, and we pay $1.00 per share for that Option. 1 Option Contract = 100 shares of stock, so the total cost for this Option is $100.
=> We do NOT own part of Acme Company.
=> We will NOT get paid dividends from the profits of Acme Company, we will NOT be entitled to vote on certain company actions, and we will never have any control over the company no matter how many Options we purchase.
=> Our investment in this Option has a 50% chance of going up or down.
=> The Profit / Loss graph of our investment in the OPTION looks like this:
The graph doesn't go to zero because our loss is limited to how much we pay for the Option.
We can see that as the price of the stock goes above $53 per share, our profits start to skyrocket. In fact, the profits of our Option will be many, many times greater than the profit of the Stock.
In this case, our total investment is only $100, and that is the maximum we can lose.
The Options trader also has the possibility to buy PUT Options, which means we will make money if the price of the stock goes DOWN. The Options trader can buy the $47 PUT Option, and if the price of the stock goes below $47, we can also make massive profits with a very limited loss. We will explain PUTs and CALLs later, so don’t worry if any of this is unclear.
We see that with Options, we can put a small amount of money at risk, and our potential for profits is very, very high. So high it’s what Dan Sheridan of Sheridan Mentoring calls Mafia Money
.
But don't get excited yet.
The CALL Option that we purchased has an Expiration Date, and if the stock doesn't go above $53 before expiration, then our Option will expire worthless and we will lose our $100 investment in that Option. The same is true with the PUT Option, if the stock doesn't go below $47 before expiration, then our Option will expire worthless and we will lose our $100 investment in that Option.
It is possible to trade Options on Indexes, like the S&P 500. So we can leverage the stability of the index on our Options trades. Uncle Bob's Money only trades Options on the Indexes because of their greater stability over individual stocks.
BIG CAVEAT:
If we start looking around for people who have Options Courses, we will come across many who practice what's called Directional Trading
, which is very similar to trading Stocks. What they show is how to use Options to make massive profits IF the market goes a certain direction. Remember, the probability of a stock going up or down is 50/50. If we buy a stock and it goes up, we can make money. If the stock goes down, we can lose money. What these Directional Traders
do is very similar to our examples above: they show how to use a fraction of our savings to potentially make massive profits instead of buying stocks. In our example above, the stock trader spent $5,000 to buy 100 shares and ALL of his money is at risk. However the CALL Options Trader invested only $100, and he still has the possibility of massive profits if the Stock goes up, with only the risk of his $100 investment if the stock goes down.
There are more advanced Directional
techniques, like Back Spreads and many others, which have very cool sounding names, but they all boil down to making a bet on which direction the price of a stock is going to go: UP or DOWN. If the stock price goes the direction you guessed, then you make money, and if not, you lose your investment. There are also Directional Options strategies where you can Short
Options, and these have the potential to have a higher probability of making a small amount of money, but with a massive potential for loss.
All of these Directional
techniques sound very enticing, and there are many guys who do an excellent job