Liberty Global: How a High-Conviction Idea Became a 165% Options Win Every so often, a trade comes along that perfectly illustrates why we pair special-situations research with smart options structuring. Liberty Global (LBTYA) was one of those trades. The underlying stock performed well (I still own it!), but the more interesting story is how [...]
Joel Greenblatt Explains Options Prices You probably know my favorite investment book is Joel Greenblatt’s You Can be a Stock Market Genius. In chapter 3, Greenblatt dedicates a glorious 61 pages to investing in spin-offs. I’ve read it many times and will probably read it many more times in the future. But an underrated part [...]
Steve Cohen and Options Quick, name a billionaire that doesn't have his or her vocal detractors. Musk, Gates, De Voss, Walton, Koch, etc. You get the idea; I can throw out a last name and you can think of at least a few things that people hate about them. It comes with the territory. Even [...]
How to Buy Your Favorite Stock at a Discount One of my favorite strategies for adding to a favorite stock is by selling puts. When you sell a put, someone is paying you cash today to buy a stock below its current price. What’s the catch? You must genuinely want to own the stock and [...]
Options Case Study: “Poor Man’s Covered Call” One of the main motivations that Rich Howe and I identified when we were discussing launching the Stock Spin-off Investing Ultra Options Trading Advisory service (“SSI: Ultra” for short) was being able to introduce our subscribers to new option strategies that not just make them money from our [...]
The Strategy John Malone Uses to Generate Income John Malone is one of the best operators and investors in the world. He is profiled in value investing cult favorite The Outsiders. Malone is best known today for running the Liberty Media complex, but he started his career in the cable industry at TCI. Here’s [...]
The BEST Bull Spread Option Strategy to Use Part 2 Part 2 of 5 Part Series Option Spreads Comparison Part I – Full Explanation of Both Types of Bull Spreads Part II – The Best Spread Option Trade? If you’re bullish on a stock, you can earn truly outsized profits with limited risk by using [...]
The BEST Bull Spread Option Strategy to Use Option Spreads Explained – Four Part Series Part I – Explanation of Both Types of Bull Spreads Part II – The Best Bull Spread Option Strategy? Part III – A Real World Example - How We Invested Using Both Strategies Part IV – Real World Results and [...]
6 Rules for Options Success In a few weeks, we are going to launch an options advisory service. I’m extremely excited to have partnered with Bruce Harper, an options expert, to lead the advisory. Bruce Harper, CFA, has been trading options personally and professionally for over 30 years. He has worked in multiple Treasury and [...]
Learn This BEFORE You Start Trading Options When it comes to options trading, there’s literally an ocean of disparities in what different traders bring in terms of their technical, theoretical and practical knowledge. Because there are scant barriers to entry, you have a market where hedge funds using algorithmic trading software programmed by Math and [...]