Kick start your trading year with options trading – recording available

Dear Traders,

If you missed my webinar “Kick start your trading year with options trading”. Don’t worry, we recorded the event. During the webinar, I discussed options trading. We looked at the do’s and don’ts of options trading, and why options trading should be part of your trading strategy.

Click here to view the recording

Regards
Richard

PS More information on my Options Trading Course February 22 – 23, 2013 is available here http://thetradingprism.com/coaching-programs/options-trading-course/

Buying a put or call option has one truly failsafe feature built-in.

In my experience there are seldom any fast track methods to making great money in investing and trading.

The days of 7000% returns on tech stocks are long gone. Let’s face it; the stock market is still back at to levels it was 10-12 years ago. Where’s the money to be made in that? Owning stocks ties up a big hunk of change, and for what? The price to go nowhere?

However there are extraordinary returns available for the savvy trader, or investor, willing to spend a little time learning about the limited risks involved in buying options.

I’m not talking about those complex strategies that only math savants can understand. I’m talking about buying put and call options on indices and stocks. No margin, no multiple legged positions, just simple buy a put or buy a call.

You see, buying a put or call option has one truly failsafe feature built-in.

You can’t lose any more than the initial investment in the position. I can’t emphasize enough how important this is. You don’t need margin; you won’t get a margin call. If you invested $100 in an option and the position goes against you, all you can lose is the $100.

Of course, the attraction of options is the leverage. At 100:1 ratio, you can control 100 shares of a stock or index for the price of 1. This requires less capital investment. So a $100 option call or put controls $10000 of the underlying stock or index.

And it’s safer. You see the US Options markets have incredible liquidity, making for narrow spreads between bid and ask (unlike some spread betting shops I know) and they are highly regulated.

I’ve traded options for years, both professionally and for my personal account, and I can tell you that with the right strategy and some basic option knowledge (no iron condor butterfly debit this or that required). They work; it’s as simple as that.

And I want to show you how to make options work for you.

My first challenge was how to make this as simple and straightforward as possible. I condensed all my material down into one concise course that will show you how to make options work for you. Next, I passed the course by an acquaintance of mine, and he was impressed. You may know him, Lee Sandford, Managing Director of Trading College and former Premier League footballer.

You know what he said? I want you to teach this course to my clients!

Anyhow, to cut a long story short, The Trading Prism and Trading College are working together to bring you my 2-day Options Trading Course.

We’re going to keep the group small, so if you’re ready to take the next step to mastering trading,

click on the link below to find out more.

Learn more about The Options Trading Course

Regards

Richard Muller

Senior Instructor

Kick start your trading year with options trading

Please register for Options Trading in 2013 webinar! on Jan 30, 2013 8:00 PM GMT at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1055862463418829568

Dear Traders,

Kick start your trading year with options trading. I will be hosting a webinar discussing options. Will be looking at the do’s and don’ts of options trading, and why options trading should be part of your trading strategy.

Register to reserve your place at the webinar.

Regards
Richard

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Market review and AIQ Expert Rating analysis + IBD meetup

Recording available for those who missed this event at http://connectpro39608568.adobeconnect.com/p3kcw8hmapq/
Richard Muller

Market review and AIQ Expert Rating analysis + IBD meetup

Dear Investors,

For those of you that are interested to hear my market update, I will be presenting the IBD monthly online meetup this coming Thursday january 10th at 7pm London time, 2pm eastern.

To attend use the link below

http://connectpro39608568.adobeconnect.com/ibdlondon/

I will also use the AIQ Expert Ratings analysis on the overall market to see which buy or sell signals are active, and where to next the market might be going.

Cheers

Richard Muller

Introduction to Options – If you missed this don’t worry

The other week, our very own Richard Muller joined Lee Sanders of Trading Collge for an enlightening question and answer session on trading options. The low risk strategies that require no margin and why options trading is superior to spread betting were among the topics discussed. View this recording now by clicking here

 

 

16 days since market ER of 98-2

The cluster of Expert Ratings to the upside starting November 16th, right at the cusp of an 8% correction in the Dow 30 Index have born fruit. Almost 2/3rds of the correction has now been erased. Despite warning signs in the AIQ Market Log of a huge inbalance of unconfirmed ratings to the downside (US 1-99, see below), the market continues to drift higher.

Other points to note.
The US 1-99 rating is based on the component stocks of the S and P 500. 99% of the stocks that received an unconfirmed Expert Rating were to the downside.
The group/sector analysis reveals the majority of groups are still trending up and the trend is continuing.
Leading groups like Retail (Drug Stores) are up over 10% from the November low.

 

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Free webinar – Introduction to Options – Monday December 10th

Have you ever been interested in trading Options and wanted to know what it’s all about?

This Monday evening, (10th December at 8.15pm), Trading College will be presenting a 45 minute Introduction to Options webinar.

Lee Sandford, Founder of Trading College, will be speaking to Trading College’s Options Coach, Richard Muller. Richard has many years of experience in trading Options and is keen to share his extensive knowledge with you. This webinar is going to be a Q&A session about Options trading, which is fast becoming more popular than ever.

Everyone is welcome to jump on board this FREE webinar on Monday 10th December at 8.15pm GMT.

Space is limited.
Click here to reserve your seat

We look forward to seeing you on Monday.

SP 500 Computer Hardware Group woes

The ever changing landscape in computer technology hardware makes for a rough ride for some tech stocks. Take a look at this one year comparison chart of the S & P 500 Computer Hardware Group (yellow). The display shows the percentage change starting from one year ago. It’s down 3-4 %.

The component stocks tell a mixed tale. Apple (white) despite the recent pullback is still up over 60% from a year ago. Terradata (green) is also fairing well up around 25% and even IBM (red) is up near 10%. IBM and Terradata make a a good deal of profit from non-hardware sources.

The reason the group is down overall is a reflection of the poor performance of the 2 heavyweight PC goliaths, Dell and Hewlett Packard. Dell (light green) is down nearly 30% and HPQ (blue) down 50%. The 2 year comparison chart (not displayed here) shows HPQ down 70%, as the worse performer, with AAPL up 90% as the best performer in the group.

NASDAQ Point & Figure November 26, 2012

Point & Figure chart on the NASDAQ market made a key reversal to the upside on November 23, 2012