Tackle Today: Measuring portfolio risk
October 20, 2020
Delta weighting is done by a trader to be able to measure the risk in your overall portfolio against one product.
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Tackle Today: The Week Ahead Oct 19, 2020
October 19, 2020
It is going to be a busy week as earnings season starts to kick into full gear with names such as Tesla and Netflix among the many names that are reporting this week.
Friday Feature: When Markets Attack!
October 16, 2020
It took me years to understand that trading is mostly about psychology. After you spend a year learning all the strategies, anyone can do it. However, only a few are successful because your brain is conditioned in the wrong way to make money. Here are some hard-learned tips I keep reminding myself to observe and become better a professional trader.
Tackle Today: 3 red candles
October 15, 2020
After Monday’s explosive rally, we have seen 3 red candles develop in an orderly Bullish Retracement pattern.
Tackle Today: Swing trading options
October 14, 2020
Essentially, swing trading options will accelerate your percentage returns and losses on a position. It is a popular tactic, but one that you must understand at a deeper level than simply swing trading stocks. Stocks are simpler, options are more complex.
Tackle Today: Swing trading stocks
October 13, 2020
There are different styles of trading, and Swing trading is just one of them. But, if you’re going to use the techniques properly, you have to have the proper mindset for swing trading and build specific rules (stop loss, target, entry and position sizing).
Tackle Today: The Week Ahead Oct 12, 2020
October 12, 2020
It is going to be a light week on the earnings and economic report front with stimuls talks/rumors and the health of President Trump dominating the headlines to start the week. FOMC minutes on Wednesday and a speech from Jerome Powell on Tuesday are Fed highlights this week and both will focus aroung the need for more fiscal stimulus.
Tackle Today: Trading account or retirement account
October 9, 2020
Do you have both a trading account and a retirement account? If so, great! If not, you might want to consider setting them up, and separating them both strategically and physically.
Tackle Today: Stocks test a breakout
October 8, 2020
It has been a mostly bullish week for stocks as prices have moved higher and threaten a breakout across most major indexes today.
Tackle Today: Scanning for potential trades
October 7, 2020
When prices are pushing near resistance, it is an important time to have your watchlists ready, and to build trading plans on the stocks you’re intending to enter into day, swing and position trades.
Tackle Today: Heat Maps
October 6, 2020
A Heat Map is a favorite amongst many traders. In a quick visual analysis, a trader can identify which stocks are performing bullish and bearish on a given time frame.
Tackle Today: The Week Ahead Oct 5, 2020
October 5, 2020
It is going to be a light week on the earnings and economic report front with stimuls talks/rumors and the health of President Trump dominating the headlines to start the week. FOMC minutes on Wednesday and a speech from Jerome Powell on Tuesday are Fed highlights this week and both will focus aroung the need for more fiscal stimulus.
Friday Feature: Habits of a Wealthy Trader – Part 1
October 2, 2020
It took me years to understand that trading is mostly about psychology. After you spend a year learning all the strategies, anyone can do it. However, only a few are successful because your brain is conditioned in the wrong way to make money. Here are some hard-learned tips I keep reminding myself to observe and become better a professional trader.
Tackle Today: Sector analysis
October 1, 2020
One sector that is notably down is the Energy sector which is under pressure again as Crude Oil is down over -6% in mid-day trading.
Tackle Today: Covered Calls for Cash Flow
September 30, 2020
One of the most popular techniques in the equity and options market is the Covered Call. A Covered Call involves the purchase of at least 100 shares of stock and then the sale of 1 call option against that stock.
Tackle Today: First Presidential debate tonight
September 29, 2020
Looking back to 1960, the day after the first debate the stock market rose 7 times and fell 5 times in the next day of trading. Over the next week of trading after the first debate the stock market rose 6 times and fell 6 times.
Tackle Today: The Week Ahead Sep 28, 2020
September 28, 2020
While earnings, economic reports and rumors of stimulus will certainly be worth following, the real battle in the market continues to be the technical battle that has been center stage the last three weeks.
Tackle Today: It’s All in The Management
September 25, 2020
Any trader will tell you and I learned this over time as well, the difference sometimes between one successful trade over another is how you manage the position.
Tackle Today: Wrestling the bear
September 24, 2020
When market volatility comes knocking, like it has during the month of September, it can be difficult to deal with the selling pressure that comes with it.
Tackle Today: The power of put options
September 23, 2020
One of the most powerful products available to us are options. Options come in two types – calls and puts. With these two products, traders can build simple directional or cash flow trades as well as complex spread trades.