Publications

How do I get my order filled? (The “8-Day Fill Rule”)

Please note that options trade only during regular market hours. Options on stocks trade from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. The close of trading for options on ETFs coincides with the closing of the underlying security. All new trades are good for eight trading days with the deadline noted in bold at the top […]… Read More

Training Sign Up

How to Trade Options Spreads With Jim Fink’s Options for Income (OFI), Velocity Trader (VT) & Fink’s Inner Circle (FIC) This 6-session class is designed for anyone new to trading options spreads using Jim Fink’s unique and successful strategy. Each session is 30-60 minutes long and includes a Q&A session to ensure you completely understand […]… Read More

TJX, UNH: Buy Stock, Sell Put Option, Buy Call Option

Two seasonally strong stocks poised to perform well in this bull market are TJX Companies (TJX) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH). TJX thrives during back-to-school and holiday seasons, with a value-driven retail model that attracts price-conscious shoppers. UNH benefits from fall enrollment momentum and delivers consistent growth through premium income and healthcare services…. Read More

How can I access my Jim Fink subscription?

This is my first experience with Jim Fink. How do I access my subscriptions? To access your subscription for the first time and as a new Jim Fink customer, you’ll need first to register with Eagle Financial Publishing and create a password. Using the email address you used to purchase: 1: Go to the account […]… Read More

How can I get approved for a higher options-trading level?

I only got approved for Level 1 or 2. I can’t trade spreads. What do I do? First, be clear on what level you need. Different brokers use different level systems, so contact your broker directly to ask what level you need in order to trade the option strategies you want to trade. Note that […]… Read More

BK, PANW: NorCal Finance

Bank stocks look like their price momentum can continue while some tech appears to be topping out. No video this week due to travel schedule…. Read More

What are the differences between Jim Fink’s Velocity Trader and Options for Income services?

OFI is a conservative trading service based on out-of-the-money (OTM) put credit spreads that can generate maximum potential profit in the 20% to 40% range by time-value decay alone (i.e., no directional movement is required) with an 85%-90% probability of success. Average trade duration is two months. VT is a more aggressive service based on […]… Read More

Why is my options account balance not going up?

There are several reasons for this phenomena when you first start trading option spreads with our services. For starters, in the first six months of using our services, you will be building your portfolio. As such, you will have more open trades than closed trades. And while almost all of Jim Fink’s closed trades are […]… Read More

What’s a call debit spread?

The great majority of Options for Income trades use the put credit spread strategy, yet occasionally Jim Fink recommends a new or rolled trade as a call debit spread instead. How does he decide which strategy to use? Every time Jim contemplates trading a vertical option spread, he looks at both strategies for the same […]… Read More

What happens in a bear market?

Market timing is a fool’s game, so Jim doesn’t play it. He favors bullish put credit spreads generally because the stock market rises two-thirds of the time and has averaged an annual real gain of 7% for more than 100 years. In the October 4, 2011 market briefing Jim discussed the long-term equity returns of […]… Read More