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How To Sell Your Own Ebook

If you wish to know some instructions on how to sell your eBooks, then you have opened just the ideal article that would give you what you have been looking for. Apart from promoting your eBooks, you are also required to know the ways on how to deliver your eBooks. Since this is the first time that you are selling your eBook, it is better if you do not set any limits in the possibilities of marketing the product. Setting limitations would lessen your probability of receiving a variety of customers. You’ve got to experiment with all the possibilities. One of the probabilities is that you must try is to research everything on the kind of customers you are focusing. You must know their needs and requirements. You must also have a sound knowledge about their preferences and what topics interest them the most.

It is of no use if you’re marketing and selling your eBook without taking into account the target audience. Make sure that you’re writing for a particular audience. Bear in mind that this is not similar to blogging where you post your article in any blog site where anyone and everyone has the access to read it. eBook is an online trade where you are required to know its pros and cons before you engage yourself in it. If you do not have the knowledge on how to be successful in this business enterprise, it would only be a waste of time and investment. You also have to think about how to deliver the eBooks after payment. Your delivery should not take a long time as it is a part of your duty to satisfy your client. Delivery is very essential as well. Once the customers have paid for the eBook, they are very alert about when their product is arriving. They have invested their money on it, so they are very meticulous about it.

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To sell off your eBook, you require a product packaging that looks eye-catching. This is one of the many ways to promote your product. Even if you are selling your product online, you are required to have a packaging that would match up with your brand imaging. Bear in mind that online marketing not only deals about the product you sell via the Net. It also involves the rights and the benefits of the buyer after buying the product.

Since this is an online dealing, the payment order must be prioritized. This is no longer an issue today. With the advent of technology, it has now become a regular habit for customers to purchase things online. You could include in your terms and conditions that you accept payments made through credit cards or PayPal. These are the two modes of payments which are practiced the most by a majority of online shoppers. You should also accept electronic payments. If you cannot do so, you could lose up to 90 percent of your sales. Wire transfer is also another option. You should provide more potential payment methods to your clients so that they would not experience any trouble upon placing their orders. By this, you’re also opening new opportunities to gain further buyers for your products. In a way, this is an excellent factor that must be considered when you’re planning your selling strategies for your eBooks.

One of the most frequent questions asked is the amount of money one would make by selling eBooks? Well, like most other businesses the answer depends on a lot of different factors. For instance the amount of time you spend for the promotion of the eBook has a direct effect on sales. The market interest in the eBook topic is yet another important aspect. People who are good at choosing eBook topics and promoting their eBooks generally make a good sum of money with the eBooks.

Getting the correct price for your product is extremely vital. Never make the prices of your eBooks very low because in this manner you’re throwing away the money which your customers may be willing to pay you. On the other hand, do not overprice your products especially when you sell textbooks online. If you overprice them, then it is possible that your clients may ask for refunds, which certainly is not good for your business. Following these tips on how to sell eBooks might allow you to earn a lot of money by doing business online.

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Q&A: Does anyone have any tips on trying to get your sell orders filled?

Question by bk09: Does anyone have any tips on trying to get your sell orders filled?
It seems that I just can’t get certain stocks to sell. My online sell order just keeps expiring. I guess my only option is to keep putting it in until there’s a buyer? (Obviously this isn’t company like Apple, the shares of which trade literally every few seconds).
A few more details are in order: I am making my limit price very realistic. As I check the status of my order at various points in the day I will often see that the stock has traded at my limit price — but the trades didn’t involve my shares. My volume is also realistic — I’ve seen volumes both higher and lower for the company.

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Answer by Ted
You could use a good-til-canceled limit order. Vague questions get vague answers. Email me with some specifics and maybe I can come up with a better answer.

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Q&A: Option trading in Scottrade – difference between “buy to open, buy to close, sell to close, and sell to open”

Question by mmores369: Option trading in Scottrade – difference between “buy to open, buy to close, sell to close, and sell to open”
I’d like to try investing in Options, but it asks me if I want to “buy to open, buy to close, sell to open, and sell to close”. Which one basically means “hold the option until it expires, and then automatically sell it?” (assuming I make money, of course) By the lingo, I would think sell to open, but I guess that’s why I’m asking. Which open option do I use where I don’t want to buy the common stock when it expires?

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Answer by errai14
I’m not sure what you are asking for, but I’ll tell you the meaning of the options.
Let’s use as an option example Yahoo Strike 30 March and say trading at $ .65 an option and you are going to buy/sell one contract

Buy to open- Buy to open is to buy this option and for 1 contract you would pay $ 65 and $ 8 transaction fee.

Sell To Close- You can not do this first, you need to own and option first. So, if you bought the yahoo option and it is now worth $ .9 You would sell it and make $ 90 $ -8 transaction fee.

Now what I think you are interested in is the opposite

Sell to open- means that you sell this option and you will recieve $ 65 in your account – transaction fee and you could do whatever you want with your money.

Buy to close is simply to buy back your option. If you think the option will expire worthless and do not want to buyback, then you may not need to do this action.

Hope I was some help.

ALSO VERY IMPORTANT. If you have sold more than one option contract and it is likely to be exercised, buy back the option. Because buy back is only $ 7 +1.25(per contract) per transaction, but getting exercised is $ 8 per contract.

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In stock options should I sell quickly or hold on to it?

Question by arikutoy: In stock options should I sell quickly or hold on to it?
I am learning on a virtual trade account. I have done Okay.

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Answer by Malik
it depends on the market situation and your financial position. if there is bulish trend you should sell quickly but if there is bearish trend you shouln’t sell and wait, if u can and afford

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How does a SELL TO OPEN call option trade gets settled?

Question by Lokesh Nath: How does a SELL TO OPEN call option trade gets settled?
I created a trade for a stock X with SELL TO OPEN call option today with expiration date on march 19th (i.e tomorrow) before the market closed. I am supposed to receive a premium of $ 100 for 1 contract. I think received the premium because I can see a increase in cash balance in my account. It was a covered call. But I can also see the transaction in my trades with the premium as negative amount. Do I need to do anything else to settle this call option trade?. How long will this trade exist in my portfolio?.When will those trades from my account with the negative amount (-$ 100) be removed?.

Thanks

Lokesh

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Answer by Rolf Golf
The negative will gradually reduce and get removed as the value of the call options you wrote reduce or expires out of the money. In this case, you will be left without the position but with that extra $ 100 once those call options expire.

There is nothing you need to do if those call options expire out of the money. The position will automatically expire and disappear from your account leaving the $ 100 in the account.

However, if for some reason the stock rallies and sends those call options in the money by expiration, you will need to BUY TO CLOSE those call options before they expire if you don’t want your stocks to be called away.

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How To Buy & Sell Stock Options On-line

A revolution has occurred over the past 10 years or so within the brokerage industry. Commissions have fallen dramatically and online trading has made buying and selling securities, especially stock options, quicker and easier.

When I was about 10 or 12 years old, I asked a full service broker for a commission schedule. I had already been hit with 0 to 0 commission charges on “market” orders, and I believed it made sense to tailor the number of shares I was buying to the optimum commission threshold. However you’d have thought I asked for the guy’s Social Security Number and bank card number based on the look he gave me. Then his response was something like, “There’s just too many factors affecting the fee … you should just place your order and I’ll try to get you a good rate.” …. What a crock!! Even at age 10, I knew enough to never purchase through that guy again. By the time I graduated from college, I sold everything I had brought through that brokerage firm and never went back.

Today, the stock broker’s world has turned upside down. You can trade securities your self on-line for as little as , , , and even totally free (up to a certain number of trades monthly or per year) based on the brokerage firm you pick. Of course, whenever you trade online, there’s nobody second guessing you (yea!!), and you may make mistakes (be careful). In this article, I’m going to discuss the nuances of buying and selling stock options online.

When you buy and sell stocks on-line, everything’s fairly easy; just specify whether you wish to buy or sell, the ticker symbol for the stock, whether or not it’s a “market” order (i.e., buy at the current “ask” price or sell at the current “bid” price), and whether or not the order is good today only or until you cancel it.

Stock option orders, however, require a little more information. Basically, you must specify: the stock, call or put, strike price, expiration month, and “market” order or “limit” order and premium you want. If you are using a combination of options, it will get a little more complex. I’ll talk about each of these items below.

Let’s begin with opening an online trading account …

This part is pretty simple. You first choose an online brokerage firm. You can search for articles that assess the totally different brokerage firms based on commissions, quality of customer support, pace of filling orders, quality of user interface, etc. Basically, I recommend you first look for “deep discount” brokers with very low commissions (or even free trades per month or year). You can also go with “discount” brokers if you think you may want more help in placing orders, but you will pay more for every transaction and I doubt you’ll need “help” very long.

Three deep discount brokers I’ve worked with include Wells Fargo, ETrade, and Zecco Trading. Wells Fargo offers up to one hundred free stock trades per year, but their on-line software is incapable of making several important, although slightly complicated option trades. For example, you can’t sell naked puts or place spread orders online. Nevertheless, customer support is pretty good. ETrade has good customer support and loads of powerful research features, however they cost a little more and have no free trades (to my knowledge). If you are going to get into serious stock options trading, Zecco Trading is the best I have found when it comes to “ease of placing complicated orders” and getting orders filled. Basic option purchases, selling naked, credit spreads and debit spreads, collars, straddles, and strangles are all simple at Zecco. They even have butterfly and iron condors available although I haven’t used them so far. Plus, you get some number of free trades every month and option trades are only .50 plus a few pennies per contract. Zecco customer support is okay.

Once you have chosen an online broker, complete an application to open an account. If you are going to trade options, you will also have to complete a Margin Account application and an Options Account application. If you want unlimited options trading privileges, you have to to mark your investment goals to include “speculation”, and you will have to claim you have options trading experience. Some options privileges (e.g., selling naked puts) would require large balances too.

Once your account is opened and funded, you may start trading. The following dialogue outlines how to place various kinds of stock option orders online.

1. Buying puts and calls. This is the simplest type of option trade. You buy a call if you think the stock is going up and you buy a put if you think the stock price is going down. Every contract is worth 100 shares of stock; please note, this is not true for commodities option contracts (e.g., silver, corn, rice, orange juice, etc.). To purchase an option, you need to specify the following:

Quantity: What number of contracts are you buying?
Month: In which month and year does the contract expire?
Stock: What is the underlying stock?
Strike price: This is the price reflecting the price of the underlying stock.
Call or Put: Which type of contract are you buying?
Order Type: Market order or Limit order (specify the premium you’re prepared to pay)
Premium: What price are you willing to pay?
Term of the Offer: Day order (good for the remainder of the trading day) or Good Til Cancelled (GTC: Means the order will stand day after day until filled or till you cancel it)

Example: BUY 2 June2011 XYZ 50 Calls for .90 (giving a price implies a Limit order) Good Til Cancelled

2. Selling Puts and Calls. A basic sell order works precisely like the basic purchase except you state you are selling instead of buying.

Example: SELL 2 June2011 XYZ 50 Calls for .60 (giving a price implies a Limit order) Good Til Cancelled

3. Buying or Selling Spreads. A spread is a simultaneous buy and sell of various options as a single order where you specify your premium as a net difference between the premiums of the individual options.

For example, let’s say you want to purchase a 25 call and sell a 30 call for XYZ stock assuming the premiums are as stated below:

XYZ 25 Call: .50 bid x .00 ask
XYZ 30 Call: .00 bid x .30 ask

As a market order, you’d pay .00 for the 25 call and receive .00 for the 30 call. Your net cost would be – = per contract (i.e., 0 net cost per contract since each contract represents 100 shares). However we already know you can beat the market price, so let’s try to buy the 25 call for .80 and sell the 30 call for .10. The difference is .80 – .10 = .70. So your order would look like this:

SPREAD order to BUY 3 Jun2011 XYZ 25 Calls and SELL 3 Jun2011 XYZ 30 Calls for a net difference of .70 Good Til Cancelled.

If your order is filled, you’ll pay a maximum of .70 per contract (i.e., 0 considering each contract is 100 shares of stock). Notice this is 0 less than the market order would have cost you. Since the position took cash out of your pocket, this is a “debit” spread, and since both calls expire in the same month, it’s a “vertical” spread. If the months were different, it would be a “calendar” spread.

So you have entered a vertical debit spread for a net cost of 0 per contract (plus commissions). For a spread order, you don’t care what the individual option costs were. For example, your 25 call might have cost .00 (the Ask price) while you sold the 30 call for .30 (also the Ask price), but you don’t care because your “Net Cost” was only .70.

If you sold the 25 Call and acquired the 30 Call “as insurance” instead … perhaps you think the stock won’t rise in price and may even fall … then you will receive more cash for the 25 call than the 30 call cost you. This position places money in your pocket; thus, it’s called a “credit” spread.

For example, if your order looked like this:

SPREAD order to SELL 3 Jun2011 XYZ 25 Calls and BUY 3 Jun2011 XYZ 30 Calls for a net difference of .70 Good Til Cancelled.

Then you receive 0 into your account for each contract pair in your position. Since both options expire in June, this is a “vertical credit” spread. If they had totally different expiration dates, it would be a “calendar credit” spread.

Identical to with the debit spread, you don’t care what the individual premiums were; you only care about the premium difference.

3. All other pure option orders. Just about all other combinations of options work the same way as explained above; they are either outright options buys or sells or spreads. The more complex stuff like butterflies and iron condors are simply combinations of spreads so far as placing the order goes. Straddle and strangle orders work the same way as spread orders, they’re just different mixtures of options.

These are the basics of how to trade stock options online and place different types of stock option orders. For more information relating to which strategies to use and which options to select, refer to my option strategies articles.

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What happens if I buy a call option then sell it?

Question by answerman: What happens if I buy a call option then sell it?
For example, say I buy a call option contract that is trading at 25 cents per share (25 dollars total). If the value of this option increases to 30 cents per share before expiration and I sell it, am I entirely out of the position? Or am I then obligated to pay should that option get in the money?

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Answer by rack mup
if you BUY a call option, and then do not selll more call options than you own, you are never obligated to do anything

it is only when you sell calls without owning them (also known as ‘writing calls’) that you are obligated to deliver stock at the strike price or pay the difference

that’s why they’re called ‘options’ – if you buy them, you have an option, if you sell more than you already own, then you create an obligation for yourself

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Stock option getting exercised question. I am trading a bull spread (buy a call and sell a higher call). What?

Question by fakechat6: Stock option getting exercised question. I am trading a bull spread (buy a call and sell a higher call). What?
I am worried about are 2 things, if assigned early, say the strike is at 45 and the stock is at 50, Will the person calling my shares away basically put in my account $ 4500.00 and I would need $ 500 in margin or cash in my account finish giving the holder of the call his 100 shares, or would I need the whole $ 5,000 on margin to cover the transaction. Other worry is wouldnt this also leave my other option vulnerable, in other words the spread aspect is gone until I can sell the option I own, it could swing wild at opening in either direction. Is this correct? anyway around this?

Thanks for the help!
Oh thanks for clarifying very interesting, If I have it right this happens,basically the day after the options are exercised, the next morning, they replace the -1 option I had with a -100 share short postion and cash from the one who
is getting the shares. So I would just go in and close out the poistion by buy ing the shares and selling the call option I still own. I think thats correct, Thats for the answer very helpful!

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Answer by zman492
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You would have $ 4,500 paid to your account. Your margin requirement should be $ 4,000 as long as you hold the long calls since you can cover the short stock position at any time for $ 4,000. Since you sold the stock for $ 4,500 you have at least $ 4,500 in margin available so there is no additional margin requirement.

However, the fact that there is no requirement/reason for your brokerage to require any additional margin does not necessarily mean that they do not. Each brokerage is allowed to set higher margin requirements than the SEC specified minimums. Sometimes brokerages have strange requirements, so you should check with the particular brokerage you use.

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No, it is not correct. The short stock position and the long call position are offsetting so you still have a valid spread. However, it is now a bearish spread instead of a bullish spread.

If the stock goes up, it does not matter how high it goes. You can still exercise your call position to buy the stock for $ 40 per share. There is no upside risk.

If the stock drops significantly, the profit from your short stock position will go up faster than the loss from your long call position. In fact, about the best thing that could happen for you is for the stock to drop to $ 0.01 per share. Your long call would expire worthless and you could cover your short stock position for $ 0.01 per share, giving you a profit on the stock of $ 44.99 per share.

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Neither of the concerns you mention is a problem. However, there is one potential concern you should understand if the stock pays a dividend. If you are short the stock when it goes ex-dividend you are required to pay the dividend. So, it is possible that the holder of the option at $ 45 could exercise it the day before the stock goes ex-dividend, in which case you would not receive the assignment notice until the following day after the stock is ex-dividend. That is the only significant risk you have from an early assignment. You can avoid this problem by avoiding call spreads on stocks with significant dividends or by closing spreads before the stock goes ex-dividend.

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If I write an option call, can I sell it later?

Question by Ray: If I write an option call, can I sell it later?
Hey guys, I am looking to start doing spread options trading, but I am still confused on what I can and can’t do. I understand that if i buy an option call, I can sell it later, but if I write an option call, can I sell it later? I use optionshouse as my brokerage. Also, do I need a margin account to trade spreads?

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Answer by bligh99
Its actually very simple…There are two types of options… puts and calls. There are two things you can do with options. You can buy them or you can sell them. If you buy an option you can sell it back anytime before the expiration date. Assuming it still has some value. If you sell an option you can buy it back anytime before the expiration date.
Now spreads are generally buying and selling at the same time. For example you might buy a 45 april call and sell the 50 april. This would be a debit trade and you can do it as a spread. In other words as a single order executing both the buy 45 and sell 50 in one fell swoop of an order. Later when this spread is selling at a higher price you can then sell the spread back to lock in your profit. This example is commonly referred to as a ‘bull call spread’ . There are many other varieties of spreads. Some target bullish, bearish, and even neutral outlooks. Please see the referenced websites for more great information on option trading.

Regarding your question about margin account. It will depend on your broker. Most brokers will let you do a variety of spreads in any type of an account. That is a better question for your individual broker.

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marko

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Q&A: Can we buy and sell options the same day?

Question by Bud: Can we buy and sell options the same day?
I know the FINRA rules says you cannot day trade more than 4 times in 5 trading days. But what about options, and if it has the same rules, can I pattern trade without margin account?

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Answer by Lenore Cheek
Yes you can do it any time at a single day or next day

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