James E. Dicks Jr.

United States Marine Corps veteran · Emmy Award-winning producer · Author of eleven books

The Value of Options

Those of you who know me know I am dedicated to making sure we offer a variety of tools to enhance your financial education. We offer live web casts on our web sites, a daily, nationally syndicated radio program and, of course, this magazine that highlights the latest trends and intricacies in the financial community as told by the nation's leading names in finance and business. However, we also offer another form of education, financial software programs, that we hope will help you develop a profitable portfolio for you and your family.

Our cover story this month is about a unique individual with a positive track record when it comes to helping others understand and apply various financial topics; subject matter that can assist us in building wealth. We are excited about our new, innovative software program, PremiereTrade AI. With this computer program you can locate, examine and trade various investment opportunities including stocks, options, the foreign exchange market and mutual funds. Our cover subject this month, "Aussie Rob" Wilson, has created the options portion of the program and joined us during the holiday season to help inaugurate this valuable financial, trading tool.

And what can options do for you? You insure your life, your car and your home. Why don't you insure your portfolio? That's what options trading can do for you. Like stocks, options can be used to take a financial position in an effort to take advantage of on an upward or downward movement in the market. Unlike stocks, options provide an investor the benefits of leverage within a position in an individual stock or basket of stocks reflecting the broad market. An option is the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a stock for a specified price on or before a specific date. The new PremiereTrade AI software, along with the ongoing training classes, can guide you through the numerous benefits of options trading and how this strategy can positively affect your personal portfolio.

Aussie Rob has spent his career educating a global audience on improving the capabilities of their investments by using some very simple tactics using options. He has studied with the best in the business and "practices what he preaches." Aussie Rob says there are some simple techniques that can enable us to insure either our stock or options position. If you are Bullish on a stock, you will learn how to place trades with unlimited upside potential while maintaining downside protection and vice versa, if you are Bearish on the stock.

Another thing we try to maintain is a simple process to all our software programs. The biggest mistake many investors make is using trading strategies that are too complicated. We developed PremiereTrade AI to make your trading easier. You will be able to place and manage your trade through this ingenious program. We are excited about the new software tool that will help you trade more effectively and we are excited about our relationship with Aussie Rob. I hope you enjoy this month's cover article with Aussie Rob and learn how his options strategies can help you develop a strong, financially secure portfolio.

Originally published in James Dicks: Buy*Sell*Hold magazine.

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