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The Truth About Options: Buying Puts & Calls On Stocks

Readers often ask me the truth about options and the advisability of buying puts and calls on stocks.

Let me begin by saying that options are tools, nothing more. Tools can be used to build something. Or they can be used to tear something down.

The key is to understand and master your tools and, more importantly, not destroy wealth when your intention is to create it.

Let’s start by defining our terms…

The Difference Between Put & Call Options?

Here are the differences between put and call options:

  • A put option gives the owner the option of selling a stock at a specific price,…
17Dec2008 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in Options Speculation

Sensible Speculation and Super Leverage

I was very fortunate to join my dad, Steve Sarnoff, as co-editor of Options Hotline in 1995, and I worked closely with him for four years. If you aren’t familiar with my dad, he’s an author of more than 60 books, editor of several newsletters, and what the New York Times called the “Dean of Commodities Analysts.”

I laugh when I think back about those times because my dad — he really loved Options Hotline, and he would say to me, “Sonny, they’re the only one’s that have super leverage and it’s the only sensible way to…

9Sep2008 | The Penny Sleuth | Comments Off | Continued

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