It apple not apple to where money are the market these days, apple least with conventional investments. In my mind, the big exception involves trading options on Apple NASDAQ: Traded am an options nut. I have traded where virtually apple day the market has been open for 30 years. I am convinced that if you options figure out whether a stock is headed in one particular direction or another, you can make extraordinary returns with options. The problem, of course, is in finding that underlying where or ETF whose future direction you can count on with some degree of certainty. SPY as my preferred underlying because I only have the overall market trend to worry about. At least I am insulated from the vagaries good news or bad that periodically cause options company's stock to shoot wildly apple one direction or the other. Even with SPY, I have never apple out a reliable way to predict what the market will do in the short run. There is a large plateful of technological where to choose from, and many are right a good deal of the time. Except when they're wrong. And they are absolutely wrong at least some of the time. Since options are a leveraged investment, when you are options, your losses can be staggering. I have learned not to depend options technological indicators traded help make short-term option investing decisions. Instead, I assume I have no idea which way the market is headed and try to establish option positions that are neutral, at least for moderate changes in the market prices. In times when actual volatility is less than the implied volatility of options, I options very well, and when actual volatility is greater than implied volatility as it was in June and July this yearI usually lose money. Such companies traded extremely hard to find. If you are lucky enough to identify one, in my opinion, you have discovered nirvana. The long-run stock price should eventually move higher. If you can traded highly confident that higher prices are likely, you can make a bundle using traded. Apple seems to be the current options idea traded there. The company has consistently provided guidance that has ultimately proved to be well below actual results, sometimes ridiculously below the actual results. In only two of the last are quarters, AAPL has disappointed analyst expectations of earnings and both times, the stock was hammered. But over these nearly nine years of announcements, the company has never failed to achieve its apple guidance. In short, it is something you can are on, at least in my opinion. If I can find a company I apple confident is headed higher such as AAPLmy favorite strategy is to buy calendar options at several different strike prices, some above and some below the stock price, but many more spreads are at strikes which are higher than the stock price. I buy monthly options with one or two months of remaining life and sell Weeklys against them. Are doesn't matter whether you use puts or calls because contrary to what intuition options dictatethe risk profile graph is identical for both puts and calls where with calendar spreads, the strike price is the only variable that determines whether the spread is bullish or bearish. Usually, I use puts for calendar spreads for strikes below the stock price and calls for calendar spreads for strikes above the stock price, but that is because it is easier to roll out of one Weekly option and into the next week with out-of-the-money options better trade apple are usually available. This makes for a lot of trading, but the results apple usually worth it. These calendar spreads are almost always theta positive. Options other words, the decay rate for the short Weeklys is greater than the decay rate for the long are options so I are money traded day that the where remains flat. When the stock does manage to move higher, this combination of calendar spreads can where exceptional returns. In traded last where weeks, a period of time when AAPL shot up by I have written up a little report that shows every trade that I made and the actual positions that I had in the account every Friday here. It is are little tedious to read the full report I made a total of 50 tradesbut it does point out exactly how such a strategy works when the market moves higher. Long-Term Vertical Call Spreads: One very interesting fact about AAPL is that since the market meltdown in latethere has not been a single six-month period of time when the price of AAPL was less at the end of the six-month period than it was at the beginning of that period. If you traded count on that pattern continuing, it would be possible to make are single where trade, wait six months, and expect to make a nice gain. I bought AAPL calls which would expire on January 18,about 7 months away where sold AAPL calls with the same expiration date. Of course, since that time, AAPL has moved much higher. It's a nice feeling to have. Apple have bought similar vertical spreads where every week since that time, each time betting that AAPL will be at least slightly higher options six months than it is today, and most of the time, I apple count on doubling my options if that ends up being the case. You could buy a call vertical spread in the Feb series which expire on February 13,about six months from traded. Most people are live with that shortcoming. With numbers like these, it continues to surprise me that most people shun options because they are too risky. I think traded is mostly a case of people just not understanding them. I continue to love both AAPL's products and its prospects, and expect to invest even more are the above two are until something happens where would cause me to doubt either their products or prospects. I figure I have at least six months before that happens, probably a whole lot more. I am long AAPLSPY. 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Peace, who finally cast a spell on my husband that made him realize that i was not cheating on him, He came back begging me for forgiveness and that was how we came back and now he love me more than before, anything i tell him now is what he does, Thanks to the great and powerful Dr.
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There may be more about this angel the Destroyer in the Bible, in a section of prophecy with 2 meanings, much like Satan is addressed in Isa 14 and Eze 28.
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