TLDR: People who say options are all highly leveraged and super risky, are like people who say that investing is super risky. They don't understand the tool fully, and have a selection bias based on stories of people losing it all in the market. Investing can be super risky (by picking leveraged ETF like$ProShares UltraPro QQQ ETF (TQQQ.US)$or$ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF (SQQQ.US)$), but it can be super safe too (by pickin...
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Having gotten used to US Treasuries rate at below 2% for the longest time, 2 yr treasury yield of 4.3% is indeed enticing. However, we do have reservations about a potential sovereign debt crisis that would lead to even the safest asset in the world being unsafe. No doubt, we do not feel there is going to be a default but our relative value in the US Treasuries could devalue if they choose the printing press to get out of trouble. Even China and Japan are reduci...
Currently, the world is facing a phenomenon known as yield curve inversion. The word "yield" is the interest rate of the bonds being issued. The “yield” in yield curve inversion refers to US Treasury Yield, which means the rate that US government is borrowing money. While "curve" refers to the curved line you see when you plot a graph of interest rate vs maturity. This curve will be upward sloping in a healthy economy; more time to return money = more risk. But nobody ...
$Treasury Yield 5 Years (.FVX.US)$U.S. Treasury yields were mixed on Thursday morning, as investors continued to digest the Federal Reserve’s latest policy update. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose by less than basis point to 1.8495% at 3:45 a.m. ET. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond fell by 2 basis points to 2.1413%. Yields move inversely to prices and 1 basis point is equal to 0.01%.
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102872488 : thx. I m new to options. really helpful article.
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ZnWC : Thanks for giving me a wider perspectives about options.
I also sold covered secure put to buy discounted stock.
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