Jan 10, 2010 | Options Trade Execution
When David did battle with Goliath, he used the leverage of his slingshot to overcome overwhelming odds. In much the same way we, as Blue Collar Investors, must use every tool available to us to level the playing field with the market makers and specialists who are...
Jan 3, 2010 | Option Trading Basics
You do your due-diligence and select a great performing stock in a great performing industry. Once you have determined that this equity meets all of our system requirements, you head off to the option chains to check the calculations. Since the stock is trading @ $39...
Dec 6, 2009 | Option Trading Basics
All center fielders are baseball players but not all baseball players are center fielders. In much the same way, stock options are derivatives but not all derivatives are stock options. A derivative is a financial instrument whose value is “derived” from...
Nov 21, 2009 | Investment Basics
So you have a money market account and invest in a money market fund. You feel that your money is safe and you can access it quickly but the interest rate is nothing to write home about. That’s about all most of us know about these money market instruments so as...
Sep 5, 2009 | Investment Basics
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article pertaining to The Yield Curve which describes a graph of the interest rates of short, intermediate and long term treasury debt securities. This sparked dozens of questions and comments from our readers on this subject so I thought...
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