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10 Options Strategies To Consider
Even if you're new to options trading, you're probably already familiar with buying puts and calls. These are the two most basic options strategies and the ones that rookie options traders gravitate to. That makes sense. Puts and calls are low-risk and easy to understand. Buy a put and you want the underlying security to go down in value. Purchase a call and you're cheering for the underlying security to rise. Either way, you're risk exposure is limited to the premium you pay to buy the contract. If the contract expires worthless, you lose nothing more than the cost of the contract.
To that end, we're definitely fans of buying puts and calls, no matter what your level of options experience is. The potential for explosive returns without the need for betting the farm on each trade is unrivaled in the investing world. But we're also fans of broadening our horizons and investing in options is one of the best places to do this. With so many different options strategies, there's literally always a way to make a profit. Let's look at the top 10 options strategies.
1. The Covered Call
Writing options means we are sellers of an options contract, which can be risky under some circumstances, but not with covered calls. In fact, covered call writing is probably the most conservative options-writing strategy because the contract you write is backed by your ownership of the underlying stock.
Let's say you own 500 shares of a highly liquid blue chip stock like Microsoft. Microsoft isn't very volatile and that makes it an ideal candidate for covered call writing. It's a good idea to write calls on stocks that aren't very volatile because we're going to write out-of-the-money calls and collect some income in the form of a premium for doing so. Say Microsoft is trading at $23. We might write calls on the $25 strike for the next month's contract. The risk here is that if the underlying stock rises above the strike price before expiration, the buyer of the call can call our stock away at $25, which is a discount to the market price.
Now you see why you have to own the stock you're writing covered calls on and why you want to select stocks that are range-bound. As a rule of thumb, you would write one call contract for every 100 shares of the underlying you own.
2.The Married Put
Another fairly conservative options strategy is the married put trade. Married puts are a lot like covered calls in that you already own the underlying stock and you'll buy an amount of puts equivalent to the number shares you own. Here, you'll be long on the puts, but since you own the underlying stock, the puts act as a hedge. In other words, they give you a way to make money if the stock declines.
3. The Bull Call
There are several different options strategies known as spreads. One of the more basic ones is the bull call spread. In this trade, you buy calls at one strike price and then sell the same amount of calls at a higher strike price. So if you bought five Microsoft 25 calls, you might sell five Microsoft 27.50 or 30 calls. The contracts have to have the same expiration month and underlying security for the trade to be considered a bull call spread. This is a bullish strategy.
4. The Bear Put
The bearish cousin of the bull call is the bear put spread. Here you'll buy puts at one strike price and then sell the same amount of puts at a LOWER strike price. Both strategies limit gains, but they also limit losses.
5. The Collar
As you can see, a lot of options strategies offer protection to investors. Another one of these trades is the protective collar. With a protective collar, you'll purchase an out-of-the-money put option and write (or sell) an out-of-the-money call option on the same security. This strategy is used by investors that have already gotten substantial appreciation from the underlying security as a way of locking in profits.
6. The Long Straddle
Got a feeling that a stock is about to make a big move, but you're not sure what way the move is going to go? That's OK because you buy both a put and call with the same strike price and expiration on the same security. This is known as the long straddle and positions you perfectly to profit from a big move in the underlying, regardless of the direction.
7.The Long Strangle
A related strategy is the long strangle, but there's a twist with this trade. With a long strangle, you'll buy a put and a call on the same security with same expiration date, but with different strike prices. A strangle is usually a little cheaper than a straddle because you'll be buying out-of-the-money contracts. And with both long straddles and strangles, your loss is limited to the cost paid to enter the trade.
8. The Butterfly Spread
The butterfly spread is an advanced options strategy that may seem confusing to the novice options investor. In a butterfly spread, we combine bullish and bearish spreads using three different strike prices. An example of a butterfly spread would include buying one put or call at the lowest or highest available strike price, then purchasing two of whatever we didn't purchase in the first leg at higher or lower strike prices and then one final put or call at a lower of higher strike. Let's try to make this easy to understand. Buy one call, buy two puts, then add another call. Voila, there's your butterfly spread.
9. The Iron Condor
Another unique options strategy that is geared more to experienced options traders is the iron condor. The iron condor is risky and complex because you simultaneously hold a long and short position in two different strangles. This is the type of trade you need to research before randomly committing money to it.
10.The Iron Butterfly
And our final options trade that we think you ought to know is another butterfly. The iron butterfly allows investors to combine a long or short straddle with the purchase or sale of a strangle. With the iron butterfly we use both puts AND calls, not one or the other. Using out-of-the-money options is advisable to keep costs and risks to a minimum.
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Is it normal to twist your hips while trying to do the splits? I know you're not meant to but...?
Is it normal or a bit odd to twist your hips while trying to do the splits?
I have a really big problem that I can go quite far in the splits,however I always twist my hips. I try to not twist my hips but I'm way off the ground and I don't feel like I'm doing the best I can.
Also does the butterfly stretch help?
i assume by saying "twisting your hips" you mean that they face more to the front then the way side you are splitting to- that your hips aren't square
it's not unusual. Many ppl do it in order for their splits to be flat. it is a way of compensating when your legs are not flexible enough to do the splits with your hips square (facing directly to the way you are splitting)
Ideally you should be able to do the splits with square hips but often once people are flat with their hips twisted they no longer need to work on the flexibility of their legs as they can do the splits with them looking ok.
It only really is a problem if the top of your back foot begins to face away from your body to to the roof because at this point you really arn't in the splits but in straddle(front splits) and using flexibility in different muscles. Its good to increase your flexibility so you can easily sit flat in square splits. It reduces the risk of injuries and can assist in more complex movements.
Is the butterfly stretch where you sit with your feet together in front of you with your knees bent? This is not the most effective stretch. You would be better to use more conventional hamstring stretches. Here are some good stretches i wrote out for mastermind in "Splits for dance team"
[ I stretch when ever im watching TV, before bed or when i have just had a shower(because your muscles are warm).This makes sure i stretch regularly to keep my flex up.
Make sure you warm up first- run on the spot for a bit, jump around that kind of thing. kneel with one leg out straight in front of you and, keeping your hips square (that's they continue to face squarely towards your leg that's in fount of you- your hip line is perpendicular to your leg) bend forward slowly. You probably wont be able to go very for, but if you can try doing it with you back straight or you toes flexed.
You should hold the stretch for about 15 seconds then repeat if a few times.
Another good stretch is one that stretches the muscles in your bottom. Sit cross legged on the floor but instead of tucking your leg in, place your foot on top of your opposite knee so on the your leg is flat and on top your other leg is flat with both of your feet and knees touching. The knee on top might not touch the foot to begin with but that's ok. Gently lean forward and hold for 15 seconds then over your knee, and foot. Repeat this with your other leg on top.
A lunge forward is also good. Kneeling with the splitting leg in front. Move the front leg so it forms a square with you back leg and the floor and then move it forward a bit more (about the length of your foot) From there, keeping your hips square again, put your weight forward as though you were trying to straighten your back leg. hold the stretch. You can also do this with your elbows on the ground to the side of your leg, or with the back foot popped (you tuck your toes under and put your weight on them so you can lift your back leg off the ground- make sure your back knee is straight). ]
Also when you are practicing, focus on keeping your hips square as you go into the splits. Go down only as far as you can with square hips and hold it for 15-30 seconds, then try to go further with your hips square and hold again. do this regularly with your other stretches
Good luck
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