Trading insights in five minutes. Everyday.
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.
November 19, 2018
≈ Grow them beyond your brain cells. ≈ It would be hard to find anything good in the world that did not first start out as an idea. Ideas by their nature are powerful and magnificent. Ideas can and have transformed companies, industries, countries, and even the course of world history. If ideas had aREAD MORE
November 16, 2018
≈ Stay in touch! ≈ Traders, Tackle Trading is a community of traders. No matter what role you play in that community, we appreciate you being a part of it. Some traders attend the webinars, halftime report and mastermind groups and participate in that way. Others are very active in our social media channels likeREAD MORE
November 15, 2018
≈ What do they all have in common? ≈ Which investment strategies were successfully implemented by the most prosperous and victorious investors of all time? We suggest you grab a few names you know of (George Soros, Richard Dennis, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett etc.), jump right into Google, Wikipedia or Investopedia and learn what theyREAD MORE
November 14, 2018
≈ Put yourself to the fullest. ≈ We know little to nothing about anything. About trading. About life. About how to build successful businesses, loving families, and stable relationships. Just when we think we already have the profit in our pockets, the markets turn the tides over our heads in a blink of an eye.READ MORE
November 13, 2018
≈ The more, the better. ≈ Asymmetry is, in its simplest form, the lack of symmetry. Some professions require symmetry, either structural or aesthetical. Others not only can live without symmetry but are in constant search of a good one. Like us, traders. How much can a stock fall? –100% should be the max level,READ MORE
November 12, 2018
≈ .. and trade your plan! ≈ You will hear coaches at Tackle Trading talk endlessly about trading rules and your trading plan. This is for good reason as trading rules help guide the decisions we make as traders and help keep emotions from taking over. If you have not yet developed trading rules, thenREAD MORE
November 8, 2018
≈ The Earth is my witness. ≈ The broad markets are living in turmoil. Emerging market too. As a consequence, many thoughts pass through my head all the time. One of them is the Buddha’s awakening scene in the 1993 movie “The Little Buddha”, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Stories like Siddhartha’s enlightenment, described in theREAD MORE
November 7, 2018
≈ Keep it in your pocket. ≈ Yesterday you’ve learned how options buyers profit. How do options sellers profit? Profiting with options as a seller: To profit as an options seller, you must sell high and buy low. Again, this is as simple as it gets. If options buyers profit by buying low and sellingREAD MORE
November 6, 2018
≈ Keep it in your pocket. ≈ We’ve seen some questions in the Clubhouse regarding how to profit with options. Because they are multidimensional beings, and also because there are many possible strategies out there, new students find it hard to pinpoint exactly how profits are made. When you enter an options trade, you areREAD MORE
November 5, 2018
≈ Fasten your seatbelts. ≈ On Monday, negative headlines can create huge waves of panic and the market can fall hundreds of points. On Tuesday, positive headlines can create euphoria as disaster might appear to be avoided. The market responds by going up hundreds of points. Too many traders attempt to make sense of thisREAD MORE
November 2, 2018
≈ Just Over Broke Statistics ≈ Every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases their Unemployment Rate and report. This report details the percentage of the total workforce that is unemployed and actively seeking employment during the previous month. The numbers have been impressive. And, they’ve been impressive for a long time. The unemployment rateREAD MORE
November 1, 2018
≈ Before the FED, After the FED ≈ “In the beginning, there was no FED, and there was darkness.” “[…] It is not that the USA, without the FED was like a no man’s land. It is not the U.S. Federal Government wasn’t meddling with banks long before the FED either.” “[…] The FED isREAD MORE
October 31, 2018
≈ Was it in a dream, was it just a dream? ≈ If you watch Mr. Musk’s interview to Joe Rogan, carefully, and obviously skipping all the nonsense that emerged from the pot part, you’re going to see that he is just a hardcore engineer with lots of ideas. The difference is that his ideasREAD MORE
October 30, 2018
≈ Keep it in your pocket. ≈ Today we have the last Absolute Truth, number 8. Absolute Truth n.8: Option buyers have rights. Option sellers have obligations. Let’s keep it simple: If you sell an option contract (a.k.a. naked position), either a call or a put, you incur in some obligations. If the option getsREAD MORE
October 29, 2018
≈ Keep it in your pocket. ≈ And we are back with the last two Absolute Truths. This week we will be featuring numbers 7 and 8. Absolute Truth n.7: Time is the option buyers worst enemy and the option sellers best ally. Let’s stage the scene: Think about some of your monthly expenses likeREAD MORE
October 26, 2018
≈ Learn to manage your drawdowns. ≈ Volatility in the markets can feel rough. When you’re making money, you feel like a Rockstar. When you lose money, you feel like a dog. But, remember, both are a part of every trader’s journey. There’s a concept in trading called a drawdown that every trader needs toREAD MORE
October 25, 2018
≈ Keep it in your pocket. ≈ Last Tuesday we published the Absolute Truth n.5: The time between now and the expiration date influences the price of the option due to the amount of uncertainty that is built into it (Time = Uncertainty). This train of thoughts leads us to the Absolute Truth n.6. AbsoluteREAD MORE
October 24, 2018
≈ In Technical Analysis We Trust. ≈ Technical analysis is amazing. Some of our coaches at Tackle Trading use it in their day-to-day decision making and other coaches ONLY use technical analysis as the basis for their trades. Technical analysis can help you determine when to enter a trade, when to exit a trade andREAD MORE
October 23, 2018
≈ Keep it in your pocket. ≈ Continuing with our Options Heuristic Series, where we try to bring the most basic options concepts in a way that is both easy to understand and applicable to your trading business. This week we’ll be featuring two more Absolute Truths, numbers 5 and 6. An Absolute Truth isREAD MORE
October 22, 2018
≈ Rule yourself. ≈ We are always searching for meaning in what we do. From the little things to life itself. Meaning is a basic instinct for us. Its pursuit is one of the highest grounds we can achieve during our lifespan. “I’ve lived a life that’s full” is what we want to say whenREAD MORE
