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The Options Professor provides a minimum of two high-quality option trades every week, along with regular updates on those trades. A comprehensive monthly issue offers option strategies and educational material for traders at every level.
Our record from January 1 - July 31, 2007: Trades = 55 Winners = 36 (66%) Losers = 19 (34%) Net percentage gain = 350%* Our 2007 record is exceptional and we are working hard to deliver more great returns to our subscribers as we enter the final half of the year and market activity accelerates. How Do We Do It What kind of guidance, you may ask? Clear, concise, precise guidance, that's what kind. Here's a sample of two plays issued recently. Both trades were closed within one week, with tidy profits. We provided some extra guidance on the SIRF play, given the extreme volatility the stock saw over the five days we held it, but that's what we do - we make sure you have the information you need, when you need it, to simplify your options trading. SAMPLE TRADING ALERT FROM THE OPTIONS PROFESSOR Issue Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 OPTIONS PLAY OF THE WEEK This week we provide a bullish trade on a company in the scientific instruments industry and a bearish trade on an ETF in the real estate industry. SiRF Technology Holdings Inc (SIRF):
Cost = $270 Max risk = $270 Profit Price: Exit this trade for a profit if SIRF rises to $26.12 or higher anytime before August 15. Trade Adjustment Price: If SIRF falls to $22.90 anytime before August 10, an Alert will be issued with an adjusted goal for an exit from this trade. iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate Fund (IYR):
Cost = $235 Max risk = $235 Profit Price: Exit this trade for a profit if IYR falls to $73.93 or lower before August 15. Trade Adjustment Price: If IYR rises to $78.10 anytime before August 10, an Alert will be issued with an adjusted goal for an exit from this trade. Bonus Special Report for All New Subscribers! If you're unfamiliar with options, we're offering a special guide just for you, An Introduction to Options. The guide is designed for the beginning option trader. It discusses the benefits of option trading and provides an overview of how to use puts and calls. You’ll get this exclusive Introduction to Options absolutely FREE when you subscribe to The Options Professor. *How We Compute our Performance: When we call a trade before the open, we use the average price of the options over the first half hour of trading as our execution price. Other trades record similar average prices for the period of time in which we advise making the trade. Our Net Gain/Loss Performance number is a simple sum of all the gains and losses on all the trades for the period. For example, three 10% gains and one 15% loss is 3X10=30 minus 15 = Net Gain of 15%. Absent a complicated model portfolio and compounded returns, this is the best way to reflect to active traders the cumulative effect of the record. If the same four trades were taken in sequence using the same funds, they would produce a COMPOUNDED return that is also 15%; ($100 +10%+10%+10%-15% = $115, a gain of 15%). 
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