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Rookie Blog: Choose the path of Light!

Good day all, if you have been watching the markets recently you might have noticed that things have not been as cut and dried from a directional perspective as perhaps they were a couple of months ago. We have had some changes in both magnitudes of price movement as well as the volatility of those

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Rookie Blog: Stretch Armstrong Problems

We are going way back in time for today’s visual for the blog. Lets be honest here, who remembers Stretch Armstrong? I have to admit that it was definitely a part of my childhood and that should give you a solid indication of my actual age

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Rookie Blog: A Tale of Two Thetas!

VS In honor of the somewhat sideways markets, we have had recently we are going to revisit the trading style that has been working best in this environment and that is cash flow or as some like to call it THETA trading. We are going to compare the merits of two different theta trades. These

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Rookie Blog: The Torture of Consolidation

Hey Rookie Bloggers! Coach Holmes coming to you with the next edition of the blog. If you have been following the markets recently you may have noticed that we are going through some pretty decent swings intraday but are really not achieving much in the way of a solid direction. Check out this chart of

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Rookie Blog: Dread the Fed!

Hello Rookie Bloggers! You may be reading this after the actual announcement comes in but this little blurb serves as commentary for any Fed announcement or really any big announcement that the markets knows is coming. It could be a brexit, a Fed announcement or really any number of things that has the propencity to

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Rookie Blog: The End is Near!

Well, it’s been a good run. Our CROX trade has been awesome, but like all good things in life, this trade must end. We have reached the point in this trade where we just have one real decision left to make? Let’s take a look at the state of the current position and then we

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Rookie Blog: Oh the places you’ll go!

Our CROX trade, like the energizer bunny, is still going and going! We were slightly underwater from an open P/L perspective last week and even though we essentially went sideways for the last week our theta has kicked in and brought us to a slightly positive open P/L. The stock price has stayed above our

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Rookie Blog: And New Heavy Weight Champion!!!!

I thought our CROX trade was the “little engine that could” as we saw in last week’s write-up, but that was a grossly underestimated description of this trade. This trade is turning into the heavyweight champion of trades! The CROX trade has given us everything we could have wanted and much more. We have had

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Rookie Blog: The Little Engine That Could.

We are back with more good news from our CROX trade. Last week we saw that a pullback in the stock had put us in a negative open profit and loss position. This pullback allowed us to pivot to a time decay strategy while still allowing the trade to come back to us if the

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