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If you are a high net worth investor, preserving and growing your wealth is likely a high priority for you. You worked hard for your money. Now you feel it should be working hard for you. But chasing maximum return and yield is hard, isn’t it? Stocks are great, until they aren’t. Getting responsibly diversified is more difficult than ever. Hedge funds can work, but you’re never really sure what they’re doing with your money. Options can be a great alternative, but most make the mistake of buying them. Stock option sellers may think they’ve found an answer, but premiums can be small, and margin requirements huge. Most will simply give up and settle for what they get. The market will decide their fate – it goes up, they will feel good. If it goes down, they will feel bad. However, if you always felt there was a better way to invest and all you had to do was find it, you may finally be home. It’s called selling options. Not in stocks, but in a completely separate asset class – commodities. This investment str

Michael: Hello everybody, this is Michael Gross of OptionSellers.com here with your Option Seller Radio Show. We have a very special guest for you this month. This month’s guest is Price Headley. Price is the founder and president of BigTrends.com. He is one of the nations most well known experts on options trading and technical analysis. Price was also inducted into the trader’s hall of fame in 2007. Price, welcome to the show. Price: Thanks Michael, great to be here. Michael: Price, I know you’re very familiar with many different types of options strategies. I’m sure several of our listeners have been to BigTrends.com. It’s a very informative website. Maybe we can start out, Price, by you just telling us a little bit about your background and how you got started in the trading industry. Price: Sure. I was a student at Duke University, actually, studying to be an equine veterinarian. My family’s been in the thoroughbred horse business for generations, and I think I was going to go down that path and then

Good Afternoon, this is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com, with a market update for April 11th. In directing your portfolios, my staff and I are constantly scouring seasonal trades, we’re scouring fundamental facts going on in economic growth and sometimes lack thereof. Following GDP in China, trying to count barrels of oil coming in and out of the Gulf of Mexico, all the way down to something not so sexy, and that’s counting cocoa beans. This is the work that we do trying to formulate your trading strategy for your account. We’re always looking for low hanging fruit. Every time it comes about, we try and get involved with it. We also try writing an article so that your clients can be involved with exactly what it is we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and what steps we’re going to take in order to, hopefully, help your account grow through 2016. Approximately two weeks ago, we spotted fundamental facts that pointed to probably a very large corn crop here in the United States. We wrote what I think was a re

Michael: Hello everybody, this is Michael Gross of OptionSellers.com, here with James Cordier for your March Option Seller Radio Show. James, welcome to the show. James: Michael, as always, a pleasure doing this and speaking to our audience and everyone worldwide. Michael: Well, we have a lot going on in commodity markets this month. James, let’s start off with the metals markets. We are having another surge higher here as we enter into late March. What’s going on over there? James: Well, we started rallying here, over the last week or two, with negative interest rates worldwide. Certainly, both in Europe, China, and Japan the first time people have been discussing negative interest rates. That certainly gives the catalyst for investors in these parts of the world rationale to get into precious metals. Obviously, when you’re putting your money in a bank and you have to pay the bank, that certainly gets under people’s tragh, and why not look for other investments? Certainly, Michael, when interest rates ar

Stock Market Volatility is Spilling over into several commodities markets. Professional Option Seller James Cordier Highlights Strategies for selling put options in Crude Oil, Writing Call options and writing put options in other commodities currently benefiting from swings in the VIX.

James Cordier discusses Gasoline, Crude Following Seasonal Tendencies – “Low Hanging Fruit” now in play for Option Sellers

Michael: Hello everyone, this is Michael Gross of OptionSellers.com. I’m here with James Cordier in our home offices in Tampa, Florida. James, what a month of volatility this month. James: It certainly has been. The commodities markets for the last 18 months have been doing a slow drip to the downside. Mainly because of the slow down in China and the demand for raw goods: nickel, zinc, copper, lead, and iron ore have been slowly falling, and, finally, with the idea that interest rates are not going to go up four times this year, which everyone had plugged in to their calculations, meaning a strong US Dollar, which means lower commodity prices. That has completely reversed. Again, here in the United States, we don’t think that’s going to happen, but that has certainly shot some volatility into the commodities market, something as Option Sellers, we really wanted and waited to see. Michael: James, I know when we talk about commodities, some commodities are more volatile than others, what we saw a lot of this

Michael: Hello everybody. This is Michael Gross, of OptionSellers.com. I’m here with our monthly guest expert series. This month’s guest expert is Jerry Toepke, of Moore Research Center, that’s MRCI.com. For those of you who read our book and followed some of the seasonal charts, in the book, Jerry is the man behind those charts. He works heavily with Moore Research in their seasonal research. He does a lot of the price comparisons, coming up with the charts you see and I think he’s going to have some great information for you here today. Jerry, welcome to Option Sellers Radio. Jerry: Thank you, Michael, good to be here. Michael: Jerry, to get started, why don’t you start by telling us a little more about Moore Research and what you guys do over there. Jerry: Okay, at Moore Research Center, we’re a small research company situated on a 73 acre ranch, a hillside ranch, about 8 miles outside of Eugene, Oregon. We actually started out as a computer research facility for a major commodity firm back in th

Good Afternoon, this is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com, with a market update for March 11th. For those of you who have read some of our books, The Complete Guide to Option Selling and the different editions, on the very front cover we talk about hopefully making stellar returns in bull and bear markets. The commodities markets over the last three years now have been certainly trending lower, and we feel that low has taken place. Over the last several weeks, we talked about looking for stabilization in commodities, so that they’re not constantly going down and pressuring option prices. As the market slowly declines, and as commodities have over the last several years, put increases, as far as premium, increases at a very slow rate. Of course, call premiums on the top side doesn’t increase at all, making for a very difficult or sometimes stagnant way of option selling. That has now changed. Volatility is now in the market. Many commodities, which have been in down trends over the last several years, are

Welcome to the Strategic Investor. Join us as we interview some of the world’s most productive asset managers and uncover sophisticated and unique investment strategies in the markets. Here is your host, Charley Wright: Charley: Hello and welcome to Strategic Investor Radio on OCTalkradio.net where we bring new investment strategies you are not hearing elsewhere. I’m Charley Wright and today is February 26th, 2016. We’re very pleased to welcome back to our show, as a guest, James Cordier of OptionSellers.com. James speaks to us from their headquarters in Tampa, Florida. James, welcome back to StrategicInvestorRadio.com. James: Charley, it’s certainly my pleasure to be here. I always enjoy doing your show, and the fact that we are speaking to investors that think outside the box, it makes us that much more inviting to do your show. Charley: Well, we’re very pleased to have you and you folks are certainly an out of the box thinking crowd here. James, first of all, let me recommend to all of our listeners,

Good afternoon. This is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com, with a market update for March 28th. I thought we’d do something slightly different today. We’re going to talk about history, and then we’re going to talk about doing some very good option selling in 2016. Several years ago, many of you may remember Rita and Katrina slamming into the Gulf of Mexico and ripping out natural gas and crude oil platforms. At the time, natural gas prices starting to soar and people thinking “How are we ever going to find any natural gas? How are we ever going to get any more crude oil?” Prices spike. They go up some 40, 50, 60 percent basically overnight, and investors scramble to cover their shorts and go long commodities like natural gas. The entire time people are thinking “Well, natural gas will never come back down to the original price, certainly because of all the supply that has now come off of line. Two years later, of course, natural gas is trading below the price prior to the storms that hit, and now, in 2

Good afternoon, this is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for January 15, 2016. Michael Gross and I have written a few books, actually three different editions of the same book, The Complete Guide to Option Selling. On the very front of the book it talks about possible stellar returns in both Bull and Bear Markets. Well, we’ve done, in my opinion, quite well over the last several years where the stock market has been trading higher. I believe we were up six or seven years in a row, with the exception of 2015, where I think, the stock market was basically flat, possibly down 1%. Going into 2016, we’re getting continuous calls from some of the largest investment banks in the world, saying that 2016 could be quite different from the previous several years. RBS, this past week, talked about a cataclysmic year in 2016, to actually say, “Get out of everything.” Have you ever noticed when investment banks and large stock brokerages are very slow to talk about the market possibly going into a

Michael: Hello readers and listeners, this is Michael Gross of optionsellers.com, I have a very special guest for you today. Today we have with us John “Dr. J” Najarian, for any of you that watch CNBC you’ll see Jon on Closing Bell and also as a feature trader on Half Time Report. He’s also co-author with his brother Pete of the book “How We Trade Options”, he’s co-founder of optionmonster.com and trademonster.com. For those of you who don’t know John he was a floor trader at the CBOE for 23 years before founding these enterprises. For those of you that trade stock options, Jon has some deep insight into that form of trading he’s going to share with some of those with us today. John welcome to optionsellers.com, guest expert series. John: Well it’s my pleasure Michael, thank you very much for having me. Michael: Sure, John you’ve got a pretty rich background in the industry, one thing many of our listeners might not know is that your resume includes a job as a linebacker with the Chicago Bears. Can you tell

Michael Gross: Okay, to everybody listening to today's Option Seller's Guest Series, we have a very special guest for you today. I am speaking with Dr. Alexander Elder. For those of you who may not be familiar with Dr. Elder, you should be. He is a legend in the trading world. He has two classic books: "At Least Trading for a Living" and "Come into my Trading Room", which I feel should be staples of anybody who's considering becoming a serious trader. Dr. Elder, welcome to the show today! Dr. Elder: Thank you very much! Pleasure being here. Gross: Dr. Elder, we're going to start. Obviously, our readers and listeners here sell options: some of them sell index options; some of them sell stock options. Obviously, here we talk about selling commodities options but I think it might be interesting to a lot of our listeners and readers to hear your story. You have a very interesting story about how you got to this country and how you got started in trading and I wonder if you wouldn't mind sharing that. Dr. Elder: W

Hi. This is Michael Gross co-author of “McGraw-Hill’s The Complete To Option Selling” and Director Of Research here at OptionSellers.com. I’m here with your bi-monthly video lesson. The topic of this week’s lesson is Avoiding The Big Hit. This is a great subject to talk about. Recently, we’ve seen some extreme volatility in the stock market. A lot of investors that I’ve spoken to over the last couple of months have expressed concern about those moves in the stock market and start thinking about big hits to their portfolio. So, they’re looking at other investments. They start looking at commodity option selling. One of the top questions is, “That sounds great but, how do I avoid that one big hit that comes along and takes all my profits from the last three months?” That’s always been the knock on option selling is, yes, it can be good, it can be great and then, one bad month and you’re all back to square one because you can lose it all in one shot. It doesn’t have to be that way. We’re going to talk abou

Hi this is Michael Gross, Co-author of McGraw Hills “The Complete Guide to Option Selling” and Director of research here at optionsellers.com. I'm here with your bi-monthly option seller video lesson. The topic of this week's lesson is The Margin Cushion. You know I talked to a lot of prospective investors here at our firm and one of the top questions I get is: • How are you going to protect my money? • How are you going to protect me from downside risk? There is a lot of risk in option selling • How do I avoid that? • How do I stay away from losing money? And there's a couple answers to that question but one of the primary answers is option selling is no different than any other investment, in that you can lose money in it; look we're all adults here you're going to have losing traits. Option Selling is not perfect; we think it's a superior strategy but it's not perfect and if you're going to be an option seller you're going to have to accept the fact that sometimes trades are going to lose money, someti

November 25, 2015 Update James Cordier Market Update Good afternoon. This is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for November 25th. Quite often, as we’re approaching the last month of year as we are now, many fund managers are starting to consider where are they going to go on vacation and what beautiful island they are going to spend some time on. To either going to lick their wounds or celebrate the last six months. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I wasn’t thinking about the say. However, going into December right now, we have some surprisingly large about of low hanging fruit. Anyone who has listened to me before, that means we’re looking at opportunities. Several of them are coming up in December. The crude oil market is getting very interesting, trading in the mid-upper 40’s – recently, as some of the turmoil in the Middle East. Michael Gross and I have written many books and many different chapters, I’m Getting To The Party Late. And what does that mean? That means that a market that

Good afternoon. This is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for November 9th. My goodness it’s almost Thanksgiving; just a couple of weeks away. Where did the year go? I think everyone says that and I’m saying that as well. Last time we chatted, we were talking about precious metals and non-precious metals. They were involved with a rally. The market was pushing up higher. Gold and silver actually reached levels that would have put them net positive for the year of 2015. We speculated that the rally was short lived, and as a matter of fact, it turns out that it was. It seems as though ever time commodities rally just a little bit, high frequency trading, which takes place in stocks and commodities as well, seem to want to push the market higher. What continues to happen is the fundaments simply aren’t quite there yet. Many investors are looking at the idea that both Asia and Europe will start catching up to the United States, and demand for raw products will start to increase. I think

Hi, this is Michael Gross of OptionSellers.com and welcome to the first installment of Option Seller radio. I’m here with James Cordier, head trader here at OptionSellers.com and we’re going to talk a little bit about the markets today and a little bit about option selling and some things that you may be able to look at and study to learn more about this strategy. James. James Cordier: I’m doing great. As always, we’re watching the news and watching certain market conditions fluctuate. And Michael as you know, I think as the year wraps up as we are doing now, we’re just about going into December, lots in the news, lots in commodities, and certainly opportunities that we like positioning for, for the coming year. Michael Gross: Good, good. Yeah I think a lot of the people listening out there probably, maybe you’ve read our newsletter, you’ve read our book, you’ve looked at our website; the purpose that we want for this radio show is to really tie a lot of those things together for you and maybe give you some