Using Put Options: How to Grab Discounts and Instant Money Everyday

by Lee Lowell, Stock and Commodity Option Specialist
Wednesday, November 25, 2009: Issue #1145

Forget Black Friday. The stock market has 3,000 items on sale – and ready to give you cash back… instantly.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve discussed how you could have sold put options to go long on gold or silver through their respective ETFs – the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) and the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV).

However, I’m going to show you how it works equally well on regular stock options, too. And with more than 3,000 stocks that have options available to trade, you’d better believe there are plenty of opportunities for you to grab the double benefit of being able to buy stocks at a discount to the current price and also get paid.

This is something I do all the time in my Instant Money Trader (IMT) service, using put options on quality Dow Industrial and S&P 500 companies. Here’s how it works… Full Article

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