Technology has made significant strides at flattening out the learning curve for investing in options. Now, one free online tool can help you perfect your options trades in real time without risking a single cent. Here’s everything you need to know to gain options experience without the risk… I firmly believe ...read more

At first glance, it may seem like speculating with options is a risky business. After all, price swings of 30% in an hour are far from comfortable for most investors. But with risk comes reward — and when you can manage that risk successfully, the rewards far outweigh the risks ...read more

It’s funny how quickly attitudes can change. Just a few years ago, most casual investors wouldn’t touch stock options with a 10-foot pole. Now the airwaves and Internet are clogged with offers to teach the secrets of “options investing.” That kind of talk is just plain dangerous. Despite my success with options, ...read more

“We have 2 classes of forecasters: Those who don't know...and those who don't know they don't know.” -- John Kenneth Galbraith The year of the American Contagion, the year of chickens coming home to roost, the year of the bailout, 2008, went into history as a momentous time of tumultuous market moves ...read more

I was very fortunate to join my dad, Steve Sarnoff, as co-editor of Options Hotline in 1995, and I worked closely with him for four years. If you aren’t familiar with my dad, he’s an author of more than 60 books, editor of several newsletters, and what the New York ...read more

Stocks ended the holiday-shortened trading week looking for a bottom. Will they find it this week and test sellers’ mettle by mounting a strong snapback rally or will buyers continue to spit for distance like watermelon seeds at your 4th of July picnic? Time will tell… So in light of this ...read more

It's funny how quickly attitudes can change. Just a few years ago, most casual investors wouldn't touch stock options with a 10-foot pole. Now the airwaves and the Internet are clogged with offers to teach the secrets of "options investing." That kind of talk is just plain dangerous. Don't get me wrong ...read more

Stock options are a great way to make big money from short-term stock moves. But with nearly 5,000 stocks out there, how do you zero in on the few that would make great option plays? Well, I use a series of proprietary stock screeners and charts to narrow things down. Throw ...read more

It's only been in the past few years that much of the public has started to notice the power of options...even though they've been around since ancient times. In fact, Aristotle demonstrated the power of options in his masterwork, Politics, written sometime around 350 B.C. Of course, they didn't have stocks ...read more