Stock and Options Trading

Information and Tutorials About Stock and Options Trading

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This site is an educational site designed to help individual traders become more skilled and more successful.  If you are interested in trading stocks, and options online, please check back often because we will update this site with new articles on a regular basis.

It's important to note that we are neither Registered Investment Advisers, nor a Registered Broker/Dealer. This site is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to solicit any trading in stocks, options, or any other securities.

This internet web site, in reliance upon the "publisher's exclusion" from the definition of "investment adviser", as provided under Section 202(a)(11) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, is designed solely to provide subscribers, and/or prospective subscribers, with a method to evaluate and obtain general information on current events, market analysis, trade methodology, and other related information. Recipients of the Service communications do not receive investment reporting, investment supervisory or investment management services, nor the ongoing review or monitoring of an individual investment portfolio.

Your use of this educational website and material indicates your acceptance of these disclaimers. In addition, you agree to hold harmless the publisher, seller, and instructors personally and collectively for any losses of capital, if any, that may result from the use of this website. In other words, you must make your own decisions, be responsible for your own decisions and trade at your own risk.

Now that we have all of the legal talks out of the way, we'd like to point out that the content on this site was created a retired financial adviser who specialized in trading individual stocks and options for hundreds of clients.  He now makes his living as a full time trader and uses his spare time to share his knowledge with other traders.  To learn more about the author, visit the following site: Stock and Options Trading


Newest Articles

  • Stock Trading Forum - This is a great new investment community.  You can come to this forum to discuss anything about stock trading, options trading, futures trading, etc.  If you have investment questions, there are experts here who are happy to help you with anything you want to know.  Visit, sign up, and enjoy the forum!
  • How to Invest in Foreign CDs - With the historically low interest rates we are currently experiencing in the US, bank issued Certificates of Deposit (CDs) are also at historically low yields. Since 1-year CDs are yielding a dismal 1% here in the US, many investors want to know how they can invest in foreign CDs that have much higher yields.

  • The Rogue Trader Radio Talk Show - “The Rogue Trader” a new radio show aimed specifically at the do-it-yourself online trader debuts in January of 2011 on News Radio 980 KMBZ, Kansas City. The show will be hosted by entrepreneur, trader, teacher and CPA, Ron Booth. “The Rogue Trader” show will cover stock trading, options trading, futures trading and forex trading among other financially related subjects.

  • Do Earnings Really Drive Stock Prices? - Since the time of buttonwood trees, Wall Street has had its own version of the Ten Commandments -- the cornerstone principles of conventional economic wisdom. The first of these writ-in-stone notions is the widespread belief that earnings drive the stock market. By this line of reasoning, knowing where a market's prices will trend next is simply a matter of knowing how the companies that comprise said market are expected to perform.

  • optionsXpress Online Brokerage Review - Today, almost every online broker offers options trading for their customers. There are also several that specialize in options trading. However, we believe that optionsXpress is the best options trading broker available. OptionsXpress was founded as the first online brokerage geared specifically towards options traders. Over the course of the last 10 years, other firms have joined in, but none have been able to match optionsXpress.