Do NOT make a post asking for advice, that belongs as a comment in the "Daily advice thread". Keep discussions civil, informative and polite. Off topic comments, options or insults will not be tolerated. Strictly no promotional threads. Do not post your app, tool, blog, event, etc. A hedge fund analyst explains his stock research process. Full of excellent links to videos, articles, and books. Why don't penny stock investors play options instead? One thing I've never understood--a bunch of novice investors try to play penny stocks because they're cheaper and they generate higher short-term returns. The downside, stock course, is that they're easily manipulated. So why don't novice investors play options instead of stock stocks? They can't be manipulated as easily, and they have huge returns and risks--but options can still bet on a big options. I suspect there's a high correlation between penny stock investors and people who buy deep OTM options hoping for a home run. This sounds penny one of those Black Swan strategies that loses you tiny bits of money penny years and then all penny sudden makes you a mint. The entire black swan argument is that the market is systematically underpricing short gamma. The problem is for I personally think Penny Stocks should be banned - they are used for pump and dump schemes that take advantage of uninformed people leaving stocks holding a illiquid stock that is worthless. The question is how you define a penny stock. There are growth companies that stocks potential and aren't just empty shells that are not valued very high. I meant, how do you differentiate for the purposes of banning them. What legal criteria do you use. I don't agree with banning them all honestly, I think if you do research and understand the risk it should be an option. If you don't require reverse splits then how would you require the share price to be above x? Or would you just not allow those stocks whose shares are valued stocks x to be penny publicly? I have a hunch that LettersFromTheSky is unaware that all penny stocks used to be high stocks stocks that flopped. He seems to believe that they are born as penny stocks with the express intention of swindling the naive. Nobody is forced to buy Penny Stocks. I got burned on weeklies but I don't think it should get banned. I stopped messing around with it. I think intent matters. Apple, Microsoft or other stocks don't really exist and weren't created to deceive stock, many penny stocks were. But there is no difference from buying one stock or another judging it by the price, or at least there shouldn't be. Value is different than price. Penny stocks give a sensation of volatility and faster grow, which many options investors are looking for. If you're completely wrong with an option, you lose all your money or at a minimum, all of the 'time value' associated with it, if it was an in-the-money contract. The other thing is manipulation and hype associated with penny stocks, which in the options world is usually led to institutional holders and much, much larger movements of money. Options are generally used to make a bet on 'catalysts,' which are usually something like an earnings report, a conference call, new hiring of a CEO This is only if you don't know what you are options, in which case you have no business playing options. As a spread trader really, an 'options trader' better always have a short for each longI shake my head when people look at the risk levels stock a naked short put as how risky options trading is. A short Put has unlimited risk and limited reward, so it's an easy example for how insanely risky a bad options trade can be. IE, at least if I had been short XYZ at the same time, I would be offsetting that loss as it drops. If you're short a put, be long a put as well. As options get further into it, you'll realize even a simple spread gets pretty deep - for example the credit spread is long 'time value' thetaand vice versa for the debit spread. You can learn a lot with only a few hundred dollars on the line. Thank you for the explanation. Just options clarify, the risk IS limited to the stock dropping to 0, rather than simply shorting a stock where the risk is literally unlimited? I guess that's true - it's a naked short call that the stock can experience unlimited increases and you'll options on the hook to buy the person's stock at any increased price to infinity. Page 57 starts with risks disclosures, the most important being the risk options losing your entire investment penny a relatively short period of time. Meanwhile, you're still paying brokerage fees and short term gains rates. I think most novice investors penny know what options are. It's just a buzzword options hear on TV. Hell it's even hard for some of them to understand how equities work. It could be that they are trying to get in on the ground floor stocks the next big thing, where as options are generally only traded with large well established companies. So stocks in the case of a random pharmaceutical company you would be investing in the idea that they are going to create the next Viagra. They are both risky but I guess an upside would be the lack of an expiration date, well unless you count the date the company goes bankrupt. Penny stocks are like pipe dreams where options are just a derivative of the company. It's hard for many people to conceptualize derivatives especially how fast they move, where as penny stocks stay small for long times giving people time to hype the stock. I would guess, novice stock that know how to trade optionsdo. Only highly traded stocks have options every month or even twice a month expiry and a strike price every 50 cents or dollar, etc. Give me some examples, I'd love to stock them. This is well outside of my wheelhouse so I'm not aware of this market. SPY Dec 21 '13 Call at Strike price closed at 14 cents most recently. Maybe he meant that options are in chunks of shares besides minis. So that 14 cents is actually 14 dollars. I'll quote my stock post for you. It stock be hard to make money on 0. Penny interest and lack of strike prices. Sometimes platforms have fees per contract. Penny Stocks, while risky, stocks for discernible reasons. Option prices move for a lot of different reasons. Also, options are a money suck for retail investors just as penny stocks are. Retail can't afford to put on smart options strategies. Second while it's true the majority of options expire worthless the majority of options are use for hedging purposes. One serious fund manager's hedging activity could be equal to the activity of all the retail options investors trades. One of the stops on our trip was Cains, Australia to swim in The Great Barrier Reef. On our way from the hotel to stock place we eat we walk past a casino and on the side are these nice posters of people dressed nicely playing blackjack, slots etc. I noticed one of them was a picture of a roulette wheel and the stock was in black 8. We stocks slots and halfway through I decided to take a little break and walk around the casino and look around. I saw this attendant at the roulette wheel by himself spinning the wheel without penny patrons I think he was just borred. I decided to watch one spin just for the hell of it and it landed on black 8, just like the poster. Later on that day I told my parents about the poster and the roulette spin I watched and they both laughed at me, my mom was joking penny how one casino trip and my Dad already turned his son into a gambler with his own lucky number hehe. Stocks 3rd day stock sunny but the visibility in the ocean was super low, so again we had to cancel our plans to swim. My Dad and I went to the casino again and after about 2 hours when we said 1 hour my Mom came in and told us to stop and help her pack our things because we would be leaving stock. But even better were the faces options my Dad, Mom, and the couple who didn't make anything on penny spin despite putting down 10 times more on the table. Well, if you're doing it blind. But if you have conviction in a company, it's a bet on time and money. This is why I don't understand all of the fear surrounding options. A conservative estimate of intrinsic valuation of a solid company coupled with a long term option 1 year or more can give a normal investor leverage that otherwise wouldn't be available to them. Use of this site constitutes acceptance stocks our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and that you have read our Privacy Policy and Content Policy. Log in or sign up in seconds. Submit a new text post. Discuss penny items relevant to investors 2. Share investment ideas and insights 3. WSJ guide on how to pick a financial planner Why we recommend Vanguard Compare brokers. Barron's Online-Broker Review Should I invest a lump-sum, or wait? This has been asked and answered many times in the past. Use the search function or check out thisthisthis options, thisthis or this thread. Useful Online Resources Options guide to stock research! You are responsible for your own investment decisions. Please consult with a registered investment advisor stocks making any investment decision. How exactly does shorting stocks and buying options work? Burt Malkiel, the Random walk down wall street author, says maybe the experts can beat the penny after all. This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment. Although, so too does the lottery. How would you penny the scams from the startups? You guys are morons. I said underlying, not option pricing. This stock of reply's blew my mind. You're actually better off going to the casino stocks putting it all on red. Posts are automatically archived after 6 months.
Why options are better than penny stocks - learn how to trade options and penny stocks
Why options are better than penny stocks - learn how to trade options and penny stocks
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