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OptionSellers.com President James Cordier Discusses
Trading Crude Options
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Serious investors are seeking consistency, especially in these volatile times. Are you one of them? Are you one of thousands of investors that have bought options in the past, only to watch them decay down to zero, even when you were right the market direction?
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange estimates that over 80% of all options held through expiration will expire worthless. For out of the money options, that figure climbs even higher. So why aren’t you Selling Options instead of buying them?
For most, the answer is lack of understanding or lack of competent professional guidance.
Now that you’ve found this website, you will no longer have that problem. Liberty Trading Group is the premier option writing brokerage in North America, specializing exclusively in selling out-of-the-money options. Our option writing articles and market comments are published regularly in The Wall Street Journal, Barrons Weekly, Yahoo Finance and CNN Money. With 25 years of option trading experience, head trader James Cordier appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Fox Business News. Cordier also authored “The Complete Guide to Option Selling", 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill 2009. You might say we’ve learned a thing or two about selling options.
Our mission is to help you employ this strategy effectively and profitably. To that end, Liberty Trading Group offers Option Selling Accounts to the high net worth investor interested in taking advantage of the favorable percentages that option selling can offer. Professionally Directed accounts are managed personally by head portfolio manager James Cordier.
As part of this website, you have access to a Free Option Seller Information Pack that was designed to help you, the individual investor, understand this portfolio strategy that, until now, was used primarily by institutional traders and fund managers.
In addition to the high percentage that expire worthless, you may find selling commodity options can offer many benefits not available with other investment vehicles or strategies including:
- The ability to sell deep out of the money options, collect high premiums with low margin requirements (unlike stock options) increasing your potential ROI
- The opportunity to be “truly” diversified (unlike “traditional” investment portfolios)
- The advantage of having TIME working FOR you, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (the exact opposite of when you Buy options)
Option Selling, even deep out of the money, is not without risk and is not appropriate for all investors. The remainder of this website will help you to better understand the risks vs. rewards of selling these options. The Why Sell Options page highlights the key Benefits of selling options and why so many investors are now opting to utilize the strategy. The Liberty Strategy page, will outline our proprietary option selling strategy so you can understand the actual trading plan that may be recommended to you as a client. If the approach described on these pages appeals to you, we recommend that you request a Free Option Seller Information Pack. The information, examples and portfolio descriptions in this pack will be all you need to help you decide if option selling is right for you.
To become better acquainted with Liberty Trading Group and our traders, click the About Us page to learn about our team, our firm and our background. For your due diligence, the Liberty in the News page will give you a good idea of the national media that have featured our firm over the years, a sampling of our 125+ published articles and research papers, and a scroll of our daily quotes to media outlets such as Dow Jones News and Reuters. The Option Seller Newsletter archive will allow you to read our past market commentaries and recommendations (Don’t forget to request your trial subscription). Reviewing this archive will give you a good idea of the types of options you would sell as a client, the types of premiums you would collect and the types of risk parameters you may establish. The archive serves as a “track record” so to speak, of past recommendations and suggestions.
Of course, the New Accounts page will provide you with everything you need to know about our account requirements and how to get started.
Last but not least, the Book page will allow you to preview our McGraw-Hill 2009 368 page book, The Complete Guide to Option Selling, 2nd Edition,. While it is not a necessary read to become a client, many traders have found it to be an enlightening and helpful guide to writing and collecting option premium in today’s market.
If you have questions at any time, feel free to call us at our main offices in Tampa, Florida at 800-346-1949. International callers can reach us at +1-813-472-5760. We also respond to all emails within one business day at info@libertytradinggroup.com.
You’ve already taken a positive step in deciding to sell options in your portfolio. Now it’s time to decide if your money is worth hiring the experts.
-LTG
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