The Complete Guide to Option Selling
The Complete Guide to Option Selling, 2nd Edition (McGraw-Hill 2009) The first edition redefined "alternative investing" forever. Now the new, updated edition is here.
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We're trading at the outer fringe of the Market. We don't have to be right about the exact price. We're taking a highly leveraged, speculative business and taking a conservative stance.![]()
James Cordier, Founder, Liberty Trading Group
From St. Petersburg Times Feature Article
"Commodities Crackerjack." - November 16, 2009
Professional Investors are not gamblers. Money Managers, Hedge fund managers, Floor Traders — all look to give themselves some kind of statistical advantage in the market before even considering a position. Shouldn't you give your portfolio the same consideration?
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange estimates that over 80% of all options held through expiration will expire worthless. (For out of the money options, that percentage climbs even higher.)
These figures suggest that the Sellers of Options, both Call and Put Options, carry an advantage in the open market. Yet, the majority of individual investors lack either the understanding or the experience to effectively implement an option selling strategy in their own portfolios.
If you are a high net worth investor, you now have the means of putting these percentages to work in your portfolio. The professional traders at Liberty Trading Group have been helping the individual investor bring this institutional grade strategy to their own portfolios for over a decade. We can help you too.
Liberty Trading Group's option writing articles and market comments are published regularly in:
- The Wall Street Journal
- Barrons Weekly
- Yahoo Finance
- CNN Money
- And more
With over 25 years of option trading experience, President James Cordier is a regular market analyst on CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Fox Business News.
His book, "The Complete Guide to Option Selling" (the McGraw-Hill Classic now in it's second edition) is a staple for both institutional and individual investors and has been featured by Morningstar Advisors, Forbes, SFO Magazine and Your Trading Edge.
Liberty Trading Group is the premier option writing brokerage in North America, specializing exclusively in selling options. Here you will find the expertise, experienced professional guidance and management you need to apply this approach to your portfolio efficiently and effectively. Providing option selling portfolios to high net worth individuals is all we do. You will find few firms, brokers or advisors who specialize exclusively in this strategy.
Liberty Trading Group is located in the SunTrust Financial Building in Downtown Tampa, Florida. Prospective clients are encouraged to visit.
Even if you never become a client, we invite you to take advantage of the resources on this site to learn the benefits and strategy of option selling, both put option selling and call option selling. At the very least, you will become a better and potentially more successful investor for doing so. At the most, you may gain an investment partner for life.
Request our Free Investors Information Pack, pick up a copy of our Book, or sign up for a free trial subscription to our client newsletter - The Option Seller. All will help you to get better acquainted with the option selling portfolio strategy and our firm.
If you're a buyer of options who is tired of losing money, a seller of equity options looking to experience the advantages of commodities, or simply a mainstream investor seeking diversification and higher returns, a commodities option selling portfolio may be the right choice for you.
Option selling, of course, has its risks. The importance of proper risk management is one reason why enlisting professional help is a popular choice among serious investors choosing the option selling route. Managing risk and the desire to maximize gains is what drives many experienced investors to seek out a specialist.
After discovering the option selling strategy, you may wish to allocate assets to a professionally directed option selling account with Liberty Trading Group, which included opportunities to sell call and put options. An option selling portfolio with Liberty provides you exposure to a basket of physical commodities markets including:
Director of Research Michael Gross (left) and Head Portfolio Manager James Cordier (right) of Liberty Trading Group offer professionally directed and managed accounts with starting balances of $100,000 and up
Selling call and selling put options are strategies that provide not only valuable diversification - they are the high percentage approaches used by so many professional traders in pursuit of outsized returns.
Option Selling is not for everybody and does contain a certain degree of risk. However, after learning the true benefits of the approach, you may decide the "buy and hold" crowd has it all wrong. When you do, we invite you to consider working with the country's premier specialist in the field.
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The Complete Guide to Option Selling, 2nd Edition (McGraw-Hill 2009) The first edition redefined "alternative investing" forever. Now the new, updated edition is here.
read the bookComplete Investor Kit for investors wishing to learn more about Option Selling and The Liberty Trading Approach. (Recommended for all potential Option Sellers)
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