Tackle Today: How to Improve Your Directional Trading
December 30, 2022
«4 Tips to Survive this Manic Market.»
Traders,
Volatile markets reveal the weak points of directional trading systems. You can use this information to your advantage by adapting your rules or complementing your directional betting with strategies better equipped to handle the wicked whipsaw.
The last week is illustrative. We’ve seen big down days followed by big up days and vice versa. Large intraday swings haven’t made things any easier. This is the type of environment that make everyone look foolish – especially those building trades that need follow-through. We’re talking strategies like long/short stock, calls, puts, and debit spreads.
If these are your bread and butter, consider the following tips to better weather the chop.
- Be highly selective with bull trades while the trend of the S&P 500 is down. Chasing new longs into strength has been a money loser of late.
- Use cheap bear options strategies that don’t require a stop loss. This allows you to give the market room to maneuver and time to descend to your target.
- Scale in and out. Entering and exiting multiple times allows you to use the adverse moves to your advantage.
- Embrace the higher probability nature of strategies like naked puts, credit spreads, flies, and condors, and you won’t worry as much about the day-to-day swings.
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