Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool August 15, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Keep Your Profits Without Missing the Next Rally This options strategy gives you the best of both worlds.
The Motley Fool May 6, 2009 Dan Caplinger	A Cheaper Way to Lock In Profits If you're looking to take advantage of a strategy that could help you preserve most of the money you've recovered in the past two months, there's good news: It's a lot less expensive to protect yourself than it was earlier this year.
The Motley Fool October 3, 2008 Dan Caplinger	Are Options Your Only Hope? With share values falling through the floor, some investors have turned to the options market for protection from further declines. But there's a catch.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2009 Dan Caplinger	The Tax-Smart Way to Lock In Gains Today A variation of the popular covered call strategy can help you preserve your stock market gains without immediately creating a taxable event.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2010 Dan Caplinger	The Best Bargain You'll Find Right Now Options have never been cheaper.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2009 Dan Caplinger	The Handy Tool That Protects Your Portfolio Covered calls can give you more than just extra income.
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Dan Caplinger	The January Effect Won't Save You If you're looking forward to the New Year to bring your portfolio a much-needed relief rally, prepare to be disappointed.
The Motley Fool March 11, 2009 Dan Caplinger	3 Reasons Why Investors Will Panic Again Just as experienced long-term investors have kept the losses of the past year in perspective, so too should you not draw any major conclusions from a one-day rally.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Bet on a Rebound Without Losing Your Shirt If you're looking for a reasonable middle ground that will let you reap some profits from an eventual recovery while not putting all your money at risk, there's one choice you may find especially attractive.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Profit From the Stalling Rally Anybody can make money when stocks are going up, and if you know how to sell stocks short, you can profit when stocks drop, too. But what the heck are you supposed to do in a flat market? Here's how even flat markets can produce profits.
The Motley Fool June 10, 2010 Jim Gillies	A Strategy You Should Consider Give yourself the option to succeed.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2009 Dan Caplinger	The Low-Risk Way to Ride the Rally You can earn profits from a continuing rebound while capping your potential losses by using options.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 Dan Caplinger	This Last-Minute Move Could Save Your Retirement With a certain strategy involving options, you can protect yourself against further downside risk while simultaneously giving yourself an exit strategy to build a more conservative portfolio in retirement.
The Motley Fool December 9, 2009 Jeff Fischer	3 Strategies for Less Risk and More Profit The Motley Fool's Chief Financial Officer, Ollen Douglass, did a lot of things right when he bought call options on a handful of stocks in December 2008.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Are Stocks Too High to Buy? If you're still on the sidelines waiting for a pullback that may never come, consider this buy-half strategy. It could save you from a lot of future regret.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Is This the Ultimate Sucker's Rally? Learn from the lessons of the Great Depression. Although stocks will inevitably drop again at some point in the future, the best rewards come from promising companies that will survive no matter what happens.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2010 Dan Caplinger	How Embracing Risk Can Make You Rich In order to trade options successfully, you need to have a firm grasp of what makes certain stocks more attractive for options plays -- and which don't justify the risk involved.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2009 Jeff Fischer	A Strategy for All Situations While options earn returns in the near term, measured in months or a few years, your stocks can be left alone to generate returns over many years, so you have the best of both investing worlds: near-term and long-term gains.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2009 Jim Royal	Here's a Chance to Invest Like Buffett Use options to help curb your temperament.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Richard Gibbons	How to Lose Money It sounds contrary, but understanding how you lose money is what will make you a successful investor. Because you will lose money.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Selena Maranjian	Meet the Fear Index The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, also known as the VIX, is one way investors measure how volatile they expect the markets to be in the near future.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Get Paid While You Wait for Stock Bargains Writing options can make waiting for stock bargains a lot more profitable.
The Motley Fool April 15, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Is Wells Fargo $50 Billion Short? Wells Fargo will require an extra $50 billion in common equity if it is to repay its TARP investment and achieve a reasonable capital cushion.
The Motley Fool May 13, 2009 Dan Caplinger	No Rally Can Help These Stocks For many investors, the losses they've suffered have been so bad that there's almost no possibility they'll ever earn back what they've lost.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Jeff Fischer	Use Options to Protect, Hedge, and Gain They're not just for speculators.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2008 Dan Caplinger	The Wrong Way to Invest Today Avoid the temptation to use volatility for short-term gains.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer	Wells Fargo Dodges the Big Losses Good times may not be quickly approaching, but it's also not likely that we'll see stocks of Wells Fargo's quality down this much very often.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Dan Caplinger	How to Love and Profit From Roller-Coaster Markets Some strategies work well with lots of ups and downs.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Why These Big Winners Are Really Losers Some stocks have done extremely well during the rally, but they fell so much in the lead-up to the crisis that they're still trading well below 2007 levels.
The Motley Fool July 16, 2009 Dan Caplinger	These Aren't the Multibaggers You're Looking For Short-term options make for dangerous gambling.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2008 Dan Caplinger	Volatility Will Make You Rich Don't think of volatility as your enemy. Although big price drops can bring temporary pain to your portfolio, they also give you a shot to pick up stock market bargains and multiply your returns.
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn	Covering the Risk If the market continues to move sideways, a classic investment strategy may make sense - selling covered calls.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2009 John Rosevear	You'd Have to Be Crazy to Buy Now Even if things do get worse, we can find values worth buying right now.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2007 Tim Beyers	Speaking Mathanese: Investment Losses In this installment of Speaking Mathanese we discuss the best way to handle investment losses. First rule: Don't give Uncle Sam a handout.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Market Zigzags and Your Money Unless you stick with ultra-safe investments such as Treasury bills or bank CDs, volatility and investing go hand-in-hand.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2005 Philip Durell	Profit From Your Losses Taxes are the bane of many an investor. Are you making the most of your losers?
The Motley Fool October 12, 2009 Dan Caplinger	This Risk Will Come Back to Bite You Overdoing risk in your investing can really cost you.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Is It Time to Get Back Into Stocks? One indicator Wall Street has been watching.
Financial Advisor December 2011 Somnath Basu	The VIX Fix Where in the past there was a sense of sanity, today each morning brings only apprehensions about how to understand and manage market volatility.
The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Dan Caplinger	What Everyone's Forgetting in This Rally Balance is the key to successful investing, in a rally such as this one, or anytime.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2010 Todd Wenning	Why Now's the Time to Get Defensive When others are calm, get nervous about your portfolio, consider options strategies, and build a list of stocks you'd want to buy at 10%-15% below current prices.
The Motley Fool September 3, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Make These 4 Moves and Stay Panic-Free You don't know what's coming, but you can prepare for it.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Tim Beyers	Stocks the Rich Executives Are Buying Sometimes insiders are buying for all the right reasons. Who's at it this week? Take a look at insider buying at: Autodesk... China Medical Technologies... SLM... VeriFone Holdings... Wells Fargo...
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 Toddi Gutner	Yellow Light On The Street? The VIX, a long-watched volatility index, is down, which could signal trouble for the stock market.
Registered Rep. May 31, 2013 Megan Leonhardt	Sizing Up the Street In the latest earnings cycle, here's how the wirehouses stacked up.
Registered Rep. April 13, 2012 Kristen French	Wells Fargo Wealth Management Business Posts Stagnant First Quarter Wells Fargo's wealth management business reported no growth in assets and a slight decline in advisors for the first quarter versus the same time period a year ago.
BusinessWeek October 31, 2005 Lewis Braham	A Rich Harvest Of Losses It's time to check your portfolio to see if there is anything you can sell to offset gains or reduce 2005 taxable income.
The Motley Fool April 6, 2011 Travis Hoium	Let Stock Options Work for You Take advantage of volatility in your portfolio by selling options to get into and out of stocks.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2009 Dan Caplinger	This Trap Could Derail Your Finances Forever Don't give in to permanent pessimism even if there's more than enough bad news to justify a pessimistic outlook.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Use Your Losses Without Missing the Rally If you're still smarting from all the money you had to pay the IRS earlier this month, don't just suffer -- do something about it. Now's a great time to build up tax breaks for years to come.