Monthly Archives: September 2009

Kurt, Could you give up teaching RAT and Live by Trading Alone? What’s YOUR Motivation?

Q: Setting aside your income from seminars, selling the blueprint, subscriptions, martial arts, etc… Could you give all those up and just live off the profits you make from trading without sacrificing on your lifestyle? …Read More

Are ‘Income Methods’ able to add Safety and NOT Limit the Profits?

You do give up a small amount of upside by having a put in place, but it’s nothing like selling a covered call. For example, in October 2002 I got AMZN at $16.09 plus a …Read More

Is Trading Stock Only Better than Married Put Trading?

Q: Just adding up your columns in the Fission track records has the stock only return indicating 343.4% while the RPM method incurring 681 transactions returned 275.3%. Again, in the Ernie@PowerOpt Portfolio, stock alone returned …Read More

Can Covered Calls Create a Steady Flow of Income?

Okay, so I’m going make a few enemies with the answer to this one. There are a NUMBER of self-appointed “gurus” out there that will tell you that it’s possible to to set up a …Read More

Long Calls vs. Married Puts Revisited AGAIN!

Here is an email dialogue I had with someone regarding the EQUIVALENCE of married puts and long calls… Kurt Frankenberg Writes: I recently got a letter from one of our valued subscribers in India. He …Read More

Why are some RPM’s 2 years out and others are 7 months out?

You’ve happened across the very principle that makes RadioActive Trading adjust to the markets to tell you how many contracts to trade and how far out. Ready for this? The simple truth is that depending …Read More

AAPL Closed in Plain Vanilla

There she goes! As I wrote before, it’s hard to do SUPER well when you’ve got a one-trick pony… AAPL returned an okay amount in this virtual trade, but not near as well as it …Read More

AAP Closed in Plain Vanilla

Well, the virtual protective put for the AAP Plain Vanilla position expired this month. Rather than attempt to maneuver the put for further protection, we will just let this virtual trade close out by exercising …Read More

What is the minimum starting captial to trade “RadioActively”?

I started trading RadioActively in 2002. My account was only $2,500 at the time. Having said that, more is better. This is because it’s ideal to risk only 1% of one’s total capital in any …Read More

Income Method in Plain Vanilla for Ross Stores Inc. (ROST)

During Today’s webinar Mike Chupka was able to use the PowerOptions Portfolio tools to quickly analyze some potential Income Method #1 trades for our virtual Plain Vanilla account. Using the powerful tools we quickly analyzed …Read More