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Jud Pyle is the Chief Investment Strategist for Options News Network. After four years with SBC Warburg, he joined PEAK6 Investments as an equity options trader and chief risk officer. 
Kevin Cook is an options instructor for the Options News Network. He was an institutional foreign exchange market maker and arbitrageur for nine years, where he worked with futures. 
Jared Levy worked as a stock broker and market maker at three major U.S. exchanges and as a specialist for Fortune 1000 companies. He won an Emmy for his Wizetrade daily trader-cast videos. 
We’re going to take you through the basic catalog of the different ways options are used, alone and in combination, by the vast m... Continue reading »
March 19, 2009 09:26 EDT
Expiry Now, what about choosing an expiry for an option trade? Generally longer term options cost more than shorter term options on the... Continue reading »
March 19, 2009 09:25 EDT
Option Strategies – Choosing an Option So let’s say we have decided to buy a call option on the shares of company ABC. Wha... Continue reading »
March 19, 2009 09:25 EDT
Kevin Cook invites Jared Levy to help him review the “Stock Repair Strategy with Ratio Call Spread” on JPM.
January 12, 2009 11:25 EST
Kevin Cook and Joe Troccolo talk Options in a Special Edition of Options Physics Basic.
December 18, 2008 11:48 EST
Fast Money Hits LaSalle Street On Friday, a few of us here at the Options News Network went to the CNBC Fast Money show. They came to... Continue reading »
May 22, 2008 16:45 EDT
Great story in this morning’s WSJ about how billionaire buy-out king Carl Icahn has been establishing a big stock position in Yahoo s... Continue reading »
May 16, 2008 15:49 EDT
Heavy Metal: What’s All the Confusion about Iron Butterflies and Condors? I’ve read a lot of articles and books by option traders... Continue reading »
April 18, 2008 16:51 EDT
Have you seen the new film “21?” It’s about a group of MIT math students and their professor who learn to count cards ... Continue reading »
April 18, 2008 16:49 EDT
Two Traders, One Strategy Steve and Jared take a look at risk management strategies on the OH platform.
Navigating OptionsHouse Get to know the OH platform and all the tools you have at your disposal.