Category: <span>Options and Currency</span>

Making an International Money Transfer – Costs, Rates and Risks – Wires, Bank Checks, Paypal, Crypto

Transferring money domestically is pretty straightforward and you can normally work with one bank or financial institution to take care of the entire process. However as I and other friends who have moved overseas have found, transferring money across countries is not as straightforward. Further, the process, terminology and requirements…

The Beginning of the End for the Mighty US Dollar

It looks the rest of the world is getting tired of using the once mighty Greenback as it's reserve currency. Recent reports show that China and other emerging super powers have started seriously calling for the creation of a new global currency to eventually replace the US dollar. China, the…

An Introduction to Trading Options Effectively

This the second part of a series looking at understanding and trading options. The first post in this series looked defined key option terminology and ideas, while here I go into some basic trading strategies and patterns to improve your odds when trading options. You can see some of the…

Optioning Apple (AAPL) Calls

This is the second in a series of posts about Tony Parker's option trades based on his prediction that the market has bottomed. His previous trade on QQQQ (Nasdaq Index) calls was quite profitable in a short period of time, but with volatility falling the return to risk ratio from…

InBev and Anheuser-Busch (BUD) Options – Arbitrage Profits from the Credit Squeeze

The difficulty in closing funding for some recently concluded corporate takeovers has presented an arbitrage profit opportunity for investors willing to take some risk. In particular I refer to the $52 billion mega takeover of U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch (Ticker : BUD), the company that is famous for Budweiser Beer, by…

US Dollar Rising and Outlook For 2022 and 2023

Despite global economic woes and falling stock markets, a positive aspect for main street America has been the relatively rapid rise of the US dollar of late. While this lowers the cost of imported goods and services, it does hurt business that compete globally as the cost our exports rises.…

Understanding Options – The Comprehensive Reference Guide for Beginners

Over the last 10 years I have traded all sorts of financial instruments. One that I have found particularly useful in volatile times like we have now, are options. Options provide a way to make money from both rises or falls in stock prices. It is also allows you to…

$1000 in 1 day on Nasdaq (QQQQ) call options

Tony Parker - a regular contributor and experienced investor - is calling the bottom of the market. To quote what Tony said late last week: "Either today (Friday) or Monday will signify the bottom for the stock market...time to buy, buy, buy...and make some money in the process". He has…

America’s National Debt Soars Toward $38 Trillion: A 2025 Financial Crisis Looming?

Well the time is here now to get an update on our national funds and the picture isn’t pretty. All the federal stimulus payments, treasury cash injections and foreign infusion of funds into our institutions/stocks has meant that America's national debt recently passed $36 Trillion (that's 12 zeros!). To put…

I Bought into the Market Hype for Visa and Got Burnt!

[2021 update] - I came across this old article I wrote in 2009 around buying Visa and thinking I overpaid. Fast forward 12 years and Visa's stock price sits near $240. Or almost 6 times what I paid for it. Goes to show if the company is solid, in the…

Tech Stocks Booming – Buying them through XLK options

Looks like Technology stocks are back in vogue, after rallying nicely over the last two days. I think the "long commodities/short dollar" trade, which has been the primary trade for the past three months is clearly reaching the end of its profit potential. This trade relied on the falling dollar…

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