Category Archives: Plain Vanilla

A BULLETPROOF Trade and Why it Pays to be Bulletproof

In today’s issue, the single most important piece of your trading puzzle: RISK MANAGEMENT. I’m going to take a moment to talk to you about a RadioActive Trading term, BULLETPROOFING – that is, taking a …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

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

New Income Method in Plain Vanilla for Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL)

It appears AAPL has been moving up nicely, and I think that virtually selling the September 175 call to reduce the theoretical risk on this RPM…remember, for the Plain Vanilla portfolio we are only applying …Read More

Closing the MVL RPM in Plain Vanilla

As you may have heard, Disney is buying Marvel for a good chunk of change. In the Fission account, we closed our ‘Bulletproof from the Beginning’ MVL position for a strong profit…I liquidated the stock …Read More

IM#1 to the LFC position in Plain Vanilla

Just added an Income Method #1 to the LFC Plain Vanilla trade. This will reduce the risk of this paper traade somewhat but still leave some room for extra profits. Remember, these trades are not …Read More

New IM#1 for AAP RPM in Plain Vanilla

By selling this call we have essentially bulletproofed the AAP virtual trading position. We still have about a total of $12 at risk on the position if AAP has a massive decline by August, or …Read More

New Gamestop Corp. (GME) RPM in Plain Vanilla

I had Mike Chupka use a different tool on PowerOptions during our presentation this afternoon…in addition to having him show us the powerful search capability of the patented PowerOptions Search tool, I had Mike open …Read More

New MVL RPM for Plain Vanilla

I recently Bulletproofed MVL in the Fission Portfolio, and then I saw it on the PowerOptions search results during our presentation, and figured this would be a good fit for the Plain Vanilla virtual paper …Read More