Trade in Groups

On Facebook, the social networking site immensely popular with people in high school, college, and a little older, the group “I Don’t care How Comfortable Crocs Are, You Look Like a Dumb***” boasts, as of today, 735,920 members and is still growing.  The shoes, although they make look, at best, “unique,” have been touted as […]

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Last week, the Federal Trade Commission gave Google (ticker: GOOG) the green light in its quest to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company behind countless of those annoying pop-up ads that show up on your computer screen every time you visit a website. If you’re unfortunately without the wonderful invention that is a pop-up blocker, […]

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Just when we’ve think Apple (ticker: AAPL) has got everything covered, the company goes and outdoes itself. On Thursday, the company announced a deal with News Corp.’s (NWS) Twentieth Century Fox that would allow customers of Apple’s iTunes Store to digitally rent Fox movies off the site. The movies would be available for viewing on […]

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Christmas, for 2007, is over.  Across the country, consumers are doing their best to avoid the post-holiday depression slowly setting in by (yet again) crowding the malls, but this time for the purposes of exchanging and returning gifts as well as cashing in gift cards on post-Christmas sales by retailers desperate to clear inventories.
For retailers, […]

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     On Wednesday, billionaire investor Nelson Peltz purchased a 14% stake in the Cheesecake Factory, Inc, a restaurant chain based out of California whose menu features a wide variety of mid-priced entrees and cheesecake desserts. News of the purchase by Peltz, who made his fortune with Snapple beverages and Triarc, the parent of Arby’s, sent […]

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     Holly Golightly, the enthusiastic socialite at the center of the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, once said that nothing very bad could happen to you at Tiffany’s. But the Tiffany’s of today is very different than the Tiffany’s of old, in what has become a growing trend in names known for being upscale retailers. […]

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     The looming news about E-Trade sits like a 900lb gorilla in the room.  Nobody really wants to talk about how this is going to affect the rest of the online trading community.  The housing inflations, interest rates, and substandard lending practices have caused reluctance in lending among financial institutions.  Some companies seem to be […]

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Volatility
Volatility can be a very important factor in deciding what kind of options to buy or sell. Volatility shows the investor the range that a stocks price has fluctuated in a certain period. The official mathematical value of volatility is denoted as “the annualized standard deviation of a stocks daily price changes.”
There are two […]

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I thought it would be interesting to throw another perspective into this mortgage/housing market issue. The general consensus out there is that there is this mass of people who received sub-prime mortgages they couldn’t afford and shouldn’t have gotten to begin with. This may be true to some degree, BUT, and it’s a big BUT, […]

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Main Components of an Options Premium
The premium of an option has two main components: intrinsic value and time value.
Intrinsic Value (Calls):
When the underlying security’s price is higher than the strike price a call option is said to be “in-the-money.”
Intrinsic Value (Puts):
If the underlying security’s price is less than the strike price, a put option […]

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