Posted on: 04-10-07 12:21:35
Hi Group
I was just wondering if any of the investment gurus on this forum would be kind enough to give a 1-2 hour lesson on options trading in one of our houses. I am very interested in doing options but I only have book knowledge. It owuld be great to hear the pros & cons from someone who has the market experience.
Cheers
rsk
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Originally posted by rsk12
Hi Group
I was just wondering if any of the investment gurus on this forum would be kind enough to give a 1-2 hour lesson on options trading in one of our houses. I am very interested in doing options but I only have book knowledge. It would be great to hear the pros & cons from someone who has the market experience.
Cheers
rsk
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Hi rsk12,
I will provide you here with three links. They will be helpful to you and will be highly educational and in the next three weekends you will be in a very knowledgeable position, to go and attend the CSTA meet on the 24th of October, as a 'first time attendee' and get some of the answers in person, if that venue is suitable to you.
My previous link to the Options Industry Council got buried in the Forex discussion area somewhere in the 'Charcha'. Here is the link again to it. You can go on their website and obtain a free CD from them and in due course work with it for futherence in the educational field. They have a lot of archived seminars which will get you going. If you wish to further into the Options field, I will search my e-mails and will provide you with all of the links to other sites also.
If you did not follow it the first time after listening to these seminars, you can re run the same and jot down a few tips and progress slowly. You can also paper trade and see where you go with it.
There is a poster here by name "VAL" on this website who is also into options and he is slightly, I may be wrong, advanced in this field who might provide you with some help.
Do get started with these materials and if you need further help contact the undersigned here on the web.
Good Luck.
Freddie.
http://www.csta.org/?categoryid=3&p905_action=eventview&event=181.
http://www.optionscentral.com/
http://www.cboe.com/LearnCenter/OptionsInstitute1.aspx
Thanks ftfl. I will take a look at the links. I actuallt went to finance.yahoo.com and tried to find all the options out there on google. but the search function does not allow me to search by the underlying. I am not sure how to go abt finding all the options on a specific stock.
Cheers
rsk
Here rsk12,
Try and understand this free software and see if it works for you. Read through the whole site and in there you will find most of the Exchanges listed and see if you can generate any of the Options Chains of the stocks that you know on these exchanges or the markets, currently or from way back.
http://www.samoasky.com/
This will give you an idea as to what an exchange is, and how they came about. Just an academmic topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_exchange.
Here are whole list of Stock Exchanges that we have heard about but did not know where they were and what they did. Try and find out more about each one of them and what they do in their country. Take your own sweet time and get a handle on these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_exchanges
Fundamentals on options from the wikipedia with highlights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_options
This website is from the Forbes people. They are good too. They will have the terms that WE use in CANADA and the NORTH AMERICA. Do not follow the usages from other countries. There is a whole lot of difference in their usage.
http://www.investopedia.com/university/options/option4.asp
Originally there was Philadelphia Options exchange and they fell back but are still in the Options Trade.
Then came CBOE, in chicago. It is currently one of the big ones and are still expanding like crazy. They are some times in loggerheads with CME, another one of the Futures Exchanges, here in the North America.
Here in Canada we have Montreal Stock Exchange for our Futures and Options. So be guided by these three.
There is a little bit of information on the options chain in investopedia. Hope it helps you get started.
Have you gone through a few of the archived seminars in my previous links? If so, you will be in a better position to go on with these current links of today.
Hope this gets you up a notch higher.
Good Luck.
Freddie.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION. 'YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE MISSING"
Here is another seminar being conducted by the OPTIONETICS people for the Residents of Toronto and GTA to go and attend and collect all of the materials that they suply, with links to the Exchanges and Brokers.
ADMISSION IS FREE
LlOCATIONS AND DATES AND TIMES
SUN: 28th Oct 15:00 hrs at Delta Meadowvale. 6750 Missi'ga Rd
MON: 29th Oct 13:00 or 19:00 hrs at Delta EAST, 2035 Kennedy,
TUE : 30th Oct. 13:00 or 19:00 hrs at Delata East, 2035 Kennedy, Scarboro.
WED: 31st Oct. 10:00 only at Westin Bristol, 950 Dixon.
Please note the timings and the locations. Choose the one that suits your time and needs. Please call them and register or access their website and register.
Please take advantage of these free seminars and you will find it worthwhile to attend one of theirs, here, locally. They are Good.
Freddie.
http://www.optionetics.com/
http://www.lifetimetrader.com/a/?Source=optweb_events
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Originally posted by ftfl
PLEASE TAKE ACTION. 'YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE MISSING"
Here is another seminar being conducted by the OPTIONETICS people for the Residents of Toronto and GTA to go and attend and collect all of the materials that they suply, with links to the Exchanges and Brokers.
ADMISSION IS FREE
LlOCATIONS AND DATES AND TIMES
SUN: 28th Oct 15:00 hrs at Delta Meadowvale. 6750 Missi'ga Rd
MON: 29th Oct 13:00 or 19:00 hrs at Delta EAST, 2035 Kennedy,
TUE : 30th Oct. 13:00 or 19:00 hrs at Delata East, 2035 Kennedy, Scarboro.
WED: 31st Oct. 10:00 only at Westin Bristol, 950 Dixon.
Please note the timings and the locations. Choose the one that suits your time and needs. Please call them and register or access their website and register.
Please take advantage of these free seminars and you will find it worthwhile to attend one of theirs, here, locally. They are Good.
Freddie.
http://www.optionetics.com/
http://www.lifetimetrader.com/a/?Source=optweb_events
Freddie,
Though I appreciate your hard work and patience putting all the links and explaining OPTIONS, did you by any chance linked to "OPTIONETICS".
If yes, please update the forum on the free seminar. I mean do you get the free stuff without signing anything, do you get any trading inputs here or just the selling pitch.
If no,did you attend this seminars before. How did you find it? My above questions are still the same...
Freddie, give honest feedback. Remember, people take their time off from work, from family , from business, to attend this seminars. They shouldn't be ripped off knowingly.
( If useful, keep up the good work..)
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PKS
This is to inform you and the board that I have no personal interest in OIC, the Option Investment Council or the "OPTIONETICS" group and I inform to this board as and when I come to know of a seminar being held. I do get a personal invitation from them. Some times I fail to inform you because I am out of town or completely forget about it.
I will report to you about the current events as and when I attend them and if I find them useful. If you are one of them that is interested in such an event, you please note and attend, if it is to your liking. The choice is yours. No one forces you to attend anything. I will surely inform you all, after their departure tomorrow. I do collect extra CDs and promotional materials from them and if I find some one in need I provide the same to them when I meet with them.
I do meet with people from time to time from this CD forum, at a chosen location, and we discuss pertinent matters and progress at our own pace.
I do sit on the web even into the wee hours of the night, on occasions, and delve a lot deeper into the postings on this board and find a few GOOD tangible solutions for a few. In many a case with scanitly provided information, to solve a situation that calls for a realistic solution, for individuals who depend on us. I pry a few good follow ups from a few who hide behind the anominity afforded to us by this board. I will enlarge upon it at a later date.
Back to where I left off: The door is always open and there is no pressure for anyone to buy any material or the courses from anyone. But the promotional materials and coffee is always free. So go and grab them. The seminar is always worth it and few return to it whenever they appear on the scene. Every time you learn something new. It also brings you upto date into the field of investments. I do know a lady who was a call center employee, from BG, is currently earning in six figures with their help and currently helps others too.
HERE ARE TWO MORE SEMINARS THAT ARE IN THE OFFING THIS WEEK END.
Equis Metastock and Pristine day traders are holding one at the TORONTO MARRIOTT on the 3rd November from 09:00 - 11:30. Only by invitation and I do have two tickets with me for their SEMINAR.
E-TRADE is holding a full day SEMINAR called Technical Analysis Summit on SATURDAY the 3rd November, at the Metro Toronto Convention center Hall "F", 225 Front Street West, TORONTO from 08:30 to 17:00 hrs. Go and attend it if you do have the time and the desire to attend and find out what it is that they are providing as education. I cannot attend both but will try to make the first one and the tail end of the other to collect some more reading materials.
Good Luck
Have a nice week end.
Freddie.
