Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[dougSF30]

alan, Options are fundamentally different than stocks.

They allow for a superset of the positions you can achieve with stock alone, considering that you can construct a synthetic stock position using options.

It's an all-too-common misunderstanding that option positions MUST be more risky than stock positions.

They can be more, equally, or less risky. They can comprise merely one piece of a position that also includes stock (covered calls).

The trouble is, most critics only think of short-term, far out of the money plays, and from this, they conclude options are "gambling", and buying stock is "investing".

Doug