Hello Tackle Family! The first quarter of the trading year is behind us now and it sure went out with a bang! The second quarter is off to a shaky start as well. I guess we can officially say that volatility is back and it’s here to stay! With unemployment numbers slated to be announced
Did you find a stop loss technique that you liked? Did you actually use it? One of the biggest problems for new traders is learning to take a loss. Most people think that if they learn enough about the markets and how they work that they won’t have losing trades and that their equity curve
Want to know the easiest way to increase your trading profits by hundreds to thousands of dollars a year? Reduce costs. Specifically, commissions – those pesky few bucks you shell out each time you buy and sell a stock, option, or futures contract.
Are the SET principles clear? Were you able to run the math to make sure you are able to win even when you lose more often than not? See in trading we don’t need to have a Ph.D. in math to be successful but we do need to understand the basics of odds and probabilities
Last update: July 2021 What happens when you combine two sweet strategies? You get a position that’s a hybrid of, well, two sweet strategies. What if a naked put and a covered call fell in love and had a baby? It would be a covered strangle. Now, what if a short strangle and a long
Oye Tackle Traders! I’m back and coming to you from the beautiful island of Tasmania!… Well, not really, I have moved onward from Tasmania but the power blog has me there chronologically. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed Franco week and I couldn’t be more proud of the guy. It has been fun watching his progress and even more fun seeing
Did you find a stop loss technique that you liked? Did you actually use it? One of the biggest problems for new traders is learning to take a loss. Most people think that if they learn enough about the markets and how they work that they won’t have losing trades and that their equity curve
It’s been about a year since I pontificated on the concept of return on time invested. And since I just had a profit target tagged in rapid-fire fashion, now is a perfect time to trot the topic back out and make sure any and all newcomers to the Tackle family are aware of its power.
Hi Tackle Family, It’s April and there are a lot of things about this month that makes it exciting. The NBA/ NHL playoffs, NFL draft around the corner and baseball season underway is great for those who love and follow these sports. For others is just being able to take a walk around the
Have you been able to see how the SET principle can help us reduce the emotion in our trading? We get to know where to get in, where to get out and a pretty good idea of the money that can be made on each trade
I’ve traded through about 48 different earnings seasons and for the lion’s share of those I was writing about my adventures. At this point, I’ve covered how to think about, protect against, and speculate into these quarterly events from virtually every possible angle. The challenge each time I trot out these topics is to color
Well, I survived the first blog, and even got a few nice comments from students and coaches, mission accomplished!!…just kidding, mission is not even close to be accomplished, we are just getting started with this. I’m excited to write again, especially considering all the things that had happened during the last three weeks: I took profits on the system and compounded in
This week in the Rookie Blog we are going to go over the first of s few tools that we can use as traders to make our job easier and to be more efficient. This week we are going over a spreadsheet that can help us with our Entry, Exit, and Targets. It also helps us
Here’s why I’m Not a Fan of Rolling Up/Down with Iron Condors.
One of the side benefits of teaching options classes is it continually reinforces to me the power of using derivatives in your investing. Just last night we dove headlong into the mighty covered call strategy, and I got to entertain the crowd with a tantalizing tale of cost basis reduction. As oohs and aahs were
Hooty Hoo Tackle Traders!! I’m back and coming to you from the beautiful island of the nation of Indonesia! But once again, not really… I have moved onward but chronologically the blog has me in Indo—but was almost caught up, folks! That said, it was nice to be back in the developing world. In my earlier years, the majority
Perhaps no event in trading is as satisfying as recovering from a drawdown.
How to Day Trade Options? Coach Tyler Craig answers this question filled with promise yet potential ruin.
This week in the Rookie Blog we are going to go over the second tool we will use to accelerate our efficiency in trading. Last week we looked at a spreadsheet that helps us figure out our Risk/Reward as well as our Entry, Exit and Target prices. Did you find this tool helpful? It most
Welcome back tackle traders! Can you believe we are in the fifth month of trading already! With the exception of a few sectors that have yet to report, earnings season will soon be in the rearview mirror yet the market is unchanged since the beginning of earnings season. I find myself wondering if the seasonality
“Previously on Environmental Hedging…” we set the goals for the rest of the year and I shared some thoughts about the current market condition and its volatility. As every week, we went over some ongoing and potential trades, and set-ups from the Dirty and Clean lists. And we talked about how to scale up/down trades and gardening
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