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Best Iron Condor Strategy

Iron Condors and Credit Spreads are ideal for conservative investors seeking recurring income. Here are the 9 “The Monthly Income Machine” SaferTrader.com screening criteria to identify the best Iron Condor and Credit Spread candidates.

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Flash Crashes – Can Options Help Avoid Damage?

A recent question at the SaferTrader.com FORUM has prompted this closer look at “Flash Crashes.” Are we indeed powerless in the face of a flash crash, or are there defenses? Recognizing a Flash Crash: Hindsight Required It’s not just the market dropping sharply. A sudden hard fall in an individual stock, ETF, or the market […]

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Mini Options – Do They Fit Your Income Investment Game Plan?

On March 18, 2013 investors began making use of the new exchange-traded mini options. Let’s take a look at the specifics of the options and at: (1) how they might fit in the options market in general, and (2) how they might fit “The Monthly Income Machine” credit spread program in particular. The Underlyings Mini […]

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Covered Call Income – Extra Earnings From Stocks You Own

Chances are you know that elemental sodium and elemental chlorine are both absolutely deadly. Put some sodium in water and it immediately blazes into white-hot flames. Inhale a few breaths of 100% pure chlorine (the stuff you pour into swimming pools is only 2% chlorine), and you will have no further concern about the national […]

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Registration Form – Lee Finberg’s Income Investing How-To Series (Complimentary)

  REGISTRATION & SUBSCRIPTION FORM   Your Complimentary Subscription The Monthly Income Machine “White Paper” Investment How-To Series Apply below to request the entire ongoing series of Lee’s “white paper” investment articles and “how-to” blueprints at no cost. They represent the very best of the strategies and techniques learned and created over three decades of […]

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Weekly Options – How and When To Use or Avoid

Recently, the use of Weekly Options has generated more SaferTrader.com “how and when to use” questions, emails and members-only Forum commentary than most other subjects. In this “white paper,” we’ll look more closely at the opportunities and pitfalls associated with this intriguing investment instrument. The Appendix at the end of this article provides a list […]

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Overbought-Oversold Markets: How to Recognize and Profit From Them

A Lee Finberg “White Paper” With a quill pen and some parchment paper, Isaac Newton, in a single summer, created calculus AND unraveled much of the mystery of the physical laws that drive the universe. Several hundred years later, Albert Einstein – who allowed as how he did it standing on Newton’s shoulders – figured […]

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Expensive Stocks: All the Profit, Without the High Cost

Our main “The Monthly Income Machine” mission at SaferTrader.com is reliable, significant monthly income no matter which way the market goes… but, SaferTrader community members do sometimes want to take a “directional” position because they see an opportunity to snag a nice profit on a potential move up (or down) in a particular stock, index, […]

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Account Money Management – Avoiding Trading Account Death

Okay, perhaps the title is a bit over the top. But, if it gets your attention – for real – it’s worth it. Most investors – especially conservative ones like those using “The Monthly Income Machine“- know that controlling risk is more important to trading account health than trying to maximize profit. The problem is […]

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Short a Put Option – You’ll Get Paid While You Wait For a Lower Stock Price

Let’s be clear. Fellow Philadelphian and cheese steak aficionado Jim Cramer may be a great stock picker and market analyst/strategist. But one ingredient SaferTraders will love is missing from his recipe for establishing a stock position. Like many market scholars, he advises investors to initiate a stock position with only part of the total amount […]

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