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Category Archives: Options Trading

Option trading has two main components – puts and calls. While the call option is used for the option of buying a certain futures contract, the put option is for the option of selling them. Another terminology used in options trading is strike price. This strike price is the price at which the underlying asset is confirmed to be bought or sold when the trader exercises the option.

There are a few other noteworthy items about option trading and each one is important. Take for example the expiration date of the option and the option style, so on and so forth. Once you understand the terminology, you will be able to understand options trading clearly.

One thing to remember about options is that they are comparatively less liquid than futures contracts. For those who analyze the markets thoroughly and regularly, options trading is just a great way of controlling risks. We at Cannon Trading help you understand options trading better and also provide you good advice on options trading. This category archive talks about a number of option trading blogs and articles to give you the most recent update on options.

Getting Stopped Out on the Highs and Lows? Read This Article….11-18-2016

November 18th, 2016 Filed under Crude Oil, Future Trading News, Options Trading | Comment (0)

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Dear Traders,

Many of you shared with me how frustrated you get when you get stopped out only to see the market goes back to where you wanted it to or positioned for….

This article by my colleague John Thorpe, talks about using weekly mini SP 500 options and can be applied to gold, bonds, crude oil and other markets that have weekly options. Must read.

Weekly Mini S&P option contracts

There are 100’s of indicators available to traders to assist with decision making that can be applied to technical analysis, which is precisely the reason to utilize a sound and inexpensive weekly ES strategy to compliment a day trading strategy.

There are two main uses for the Weekly options

As a hedge, no need for stops
As a pure speculation. A relatively inexpensive way to speculate on market direction in a time frame that can be for minutes, hours or a few days without the need to use stops.

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Video Center, Futures Options 101

October 17th, 2016 Filed under Future Trading News, futures trading education, Options Trading, Trading Guide | Comment (0)

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A couple of new videos on our video center , including a recording of a Options 101 webinar!

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Trading Weekly Futures Options 8.18.2016

August 17th, 2016 Filed under Future Trading News, Options Trading | Comment (0)

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Hello Traders,

Greetings!

I promised yesterday a full article about weekly options, so here it is written by my colleague John Thorpe.

While this specific article focuses on mini SP500 weekly options, keep in mind that the information is relevant to other weekly options such as gold, crude oil, bonds, currencies and more!

Enjoy the article here.

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Have You Heard About Weekly Options? 8.17.2016

August 16th, 2016 Filed under Future Trading News, Options Trading | Comment (0)

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Hello Traders,

Greetings!

Weekly options:

In the last few years the CME group added weekly options to a variety of markets. It started with the highly liquid mini SP 500 contract and then trickled down to other markets such as crude oil, gold, bonds, grains and currencies to name a few.

So what’s the big deal you may ask as there are many different futures contacts and options contracts listed on more than a few global exchanges?

From my point of view, the weekly options are a great tool for short term traders to have in their trading arsenal for two main reasons:

Ability to use these weekly options as a way to speculate on the direction of the markets without the need to use stops.
The weekly options offer the short term traders who use futures an alternative to placing stops by using the options as protection/insurance.

If you ever day-traded futures or traded futures for short term duration ranging from hours to days you know that trading without a stop is detrimental for your physical and financial well being…yet that being said many of us got stopped out to see the market coming right back to where we thought and wanted it to move towards…. Read the rest of this entry »