Tackle Today: Starting with a small account?
August 5, 2020
Tonight, we are hosting a live special webinar with a panel of coaches to discuss ‘How to start trading with a small account’.
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We love communicating with our students and Tackle Daily is our daily email we send out Monday through Saturday. This five-minute read is designed to kick off your day the right way. You’ll find out what is happening at Tackle Trading on that day along with our market thoughts, a chart of the day and other inspirational items. If you missed any of our previous emails, you can find them here.
Tackle Today: Rule building exercise
August 4, 2020
Do you have clearly defined rules? This can be written out for breakouts, retracements, or other systems. It is an especially important exercise to write down your rules.
Tackle Today: Earnings Season, Stimulus and Unemployment
August 3, 2020
More earnings this week as we have the last big week of earnings season. In addition, the monthly employment report is released on Friday, Washington is debating stimulus and U.S./China tensions continue to simmer.
Tackle Today: Friday Feature – Desire and Expectations
July 31, 2020
When you first learned how to trade, what was it that you desired to come out of it?
Tackle Today: GDP and Big Tech Earnings
July 30, 2020
It is a busy day in financial markets. There was a handful of important economic reports that were reported this morning, including the Advanced GDP and weekly jobless claims.
Tackle Today: FOMC meeting today
July 29, 2020
The Federal Open Market Committee finishes its 2-day policy meeting today, with a statement and press conference to follow. Here is what we expect them to say: ‘We will do anything we can to help this economy.’
Tackle Today: The 7 steps to trading
July 28, 2020
The 7 steps essentially is a deductive type process where you start with the big picture, work your way down through each steps process, and end with a journaled and completed trade. It’s worth your time to learn it.
Tackle Today: Busy Earnings Week
July 27, 2020
Getting into the heart of earnings season this week with massive names like Apple, Amazon and Alphabet reporting this week. In addition, the Fed mets this week, Washington is debating stimulus and U.S./China tensions continue to simmer.
Friday Feature – Women in Trading: Earnings, sit it out or dance?
July 24, 2020
Earnings season is a tricky season for new traders. The urge to want to get on the dance floor and participate in those highly anticipated price movements is real and many think this is their opportunity to hit it big until they meet a faster dancer on the floor named Vega.
Tackle Today: Tesla and Microsoft Earnings
July 23, 2020
Tesla reported earnings on Wednesday after the market close. The price has held up well, trading near $1600 a share in early trading on Thursday. What has not held up well is the Implied Volatility for the options on Tesla. When IV drops, the value of an option drops at the rate of Vega. If you hold options you must learn how to read implied volatility changes.
Tackle Today: Journal your trades
July 22, 2020
On any given trade, you can win, lose or breakeven. But one trade is just that. Over time, through the accumulation of data through your trading results you can start to see a clear picture of how your trading system is performing.
Tackle Today: The art of the reversal
July 21, 2020
In a reversal, a trend will move into slowing momentum, then a double top, a double bottom, eventually it must break support and then the last step is the kiss of death.
Tackle Today: More stock earnings
July 20, 2020
Getting into the heart of earnings season this week. While Jobless Claims and an ongoing debate on the size and scope of the next stimulus package can certainly move the market this week, earnings reports from a wide variety of companies will dominate the headlines.
Friday Feature – The Only Key A Trader Really Ever Needs!
July 17, 2020
Everyone is looking for that one thing that will catapult them to crazy success. For a golfer, it is that one repeatable swing that bombs down the fairway! For a business person, it may be that one product that is a must-have for everyone.
Tackle Today: Risk graphs are powerful
July 16, 2020
A risk graph is a valuable tool for an options trader. They can be intimidating if you do not know how to use them, but they are simply fancy calculators that help you better understand your potential gains, losses, and outcomes of your trade.
Tackle Today: Proper position sizing is key
July 15, 2020
Stock trading position sizing rules tend to be higher than options trading position sizing rules, because of the leverage that is built into an options contract. Make sure you have built your rules for any product that you trade so that you position size within proper guidelines.
Tackle Today: Bank Earnings and Tech Stock performance
July 14, 2020
The question is this, can Tech and other momentum stocks that have been performing strong continue to rally in the face of bad earnings reports, dire economic projections from firms and more Covid-19 lockdowns?
Tackle Today: Earnings Season Underway
July 13, 2020
While there undoubtedly will be news surrounding a wide range of subjects, earnings season is going to be front and center this week. This is perhaps one of the most widely anticipated earnings seasons ever.
Tackle Today: The Options Greeks
July 10, 2020
If you learn how to use the options Greeks, you will become a more informed trader. Trading with knowledge of how the math works that goes into the Black Scholes Model will simply give you more confidence in your strategies, more understanding of why you are winning or losing on a trade and more information to build better trades.
Tackle Today: Gold’s little brother, Silver
July 9, 2020
Could silver be setting up for a bullish trend? If you read the Commodity Report or the Stock Report from over the weekend, you probably heard Coach Mark or Coach Greg talk about SLV and silver investing.