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    The Daily Options Trading Strategy: How Relevant Factors Play A Role In Picking Trades

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    By Kevin M. O'Brien:The goal of the daily options trading strategy I developed is to both get in and out of the trade as quickly as possible. On occasion, certain factors may prevent this. Market conditions, Ben Bernanke (if holding call options), or buying call options on a stock that you probably would not want to hold under any circumstance. For example, Netflix (NFLX) and Salesforce.com (CRM) are great examples. While this may be a biased opinion, I am of the feeling that both Netflix and Salesforce are extremely overpriced. Just take a look at the P/E ratio on Salesforce and the concerning market share/finance issues Netflix has.Before I go any further, I would like to go over in this article what this strategy is all about and how to understand it. This is mostly for those unfamiliar with this strategy, so if you already know about it, you can skip theComplete Story »

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