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How to Daytrade for a Living - A Systematic Approach

By Markus Heitkoetter *** "Is it really possible to make a living as a day trader?" *** This question is asked over and over and over again by normal, ordinary people. The answer is simple: "Yes, it is DEFINITELY possible! And, better yet, you yourself can do it!" Sometimes people don't believe me when I say that they can become successful, full-time day traders, but it's true. And I'm going to prove it to you right now. Before we get started, I need you to ask yourself one very important question: "How much is 'a living?'" Many people want to be 'rich,' but they fail to quantify what 'rich' means to them. Are you 'rich' if you have one million dollars? Maybe so, but if you told Donald Trump that he had one million dollars in his bank account, he'd wonder what had happened to the rest of it! One million dollars to Donald Trump equals broke! *** How to Make $150,000 Per Year *** Since I don't want

Best Options Trading Books

Best Options Trading Books By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Timothy_McCready]Timothy McCready Too many beginning traders move into options thinking of them as cheap surrogates for their underlying stock. That's not entirely unwarranted: given the right conditions, many trading strategies translate nicely from stock trading to options. But how is a trader to know when those conditions are right? There is only one way - you need to understand options. You need to know the function they fill in the financial markets; you need to have an idea of 'true' pricing, you need to have a handle on how fundamental data impacts options pricing differently than it affects the stock or ETF on which the option is based. In short, if you want to trade options the way you trade stocks, you need to know how differnet the two are. And the best way to do that is to educate yourself by reading the best options trading books available. Here are some the best options trading books currently ava

Option Trading Strategies

Option Trading Strategies By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Kevin_T.]Kevin T. Option trading in the world of stock market has a lot of income potential and it is full of monetary benefits if you pick and follow the right strategy. There are many option trading strategies that an investor can pick from. Depending on the impression you have about the direction of stock price movement, you can pick an option strategy. There are several strategies for trading options that are used mostly such as bullish, bearish and neutral strategies. If you have an impression of the stock price going either way then bullish or bearish strategies are used. If you have no clue about the stock price movement then neutral strategy is the right strategy to pick. When you expect the underlying stock price going up then bullish strategy should be used. However with this strategy it is crucial to examine the amount that the stock price can increase and the period in which the rally will occur. This examinatio

Options Trading - Calls and Puts

Options Trading - Calls and Puts By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mike_Doering]Mike Doering Like most disciplines, options trading has some lingo peculiar to the world of the options market. Most stock traders have heard of 'calls' and 'puts', but explaining how they work is another matter. Calls and puts are two types of options; there are call options and there are put options. All options are defined by the following characteristics: they pertain to a specific underlying stock they have an expiration date they have an exercise price (a.k.a. a strike price) To help grasp these concepts of calls and puts, it's important to understand that owning calls or puts gives the owner certain rights. Now, if rights are one side of a coin, then obligations are the other side. When a trader buys an option they are buying a right to either buy a particular stock or sell a particular stock. If one trader holds a certain right, then some other trader must have the complementa