October 4, 2018
It’s the weekend. You’ve scoured the Options Report, found your favorite setups to trade for the next week. You’ve set your alerts or entry orders, Monday arrives and BAM! the market gaps higher right out of the gate robbing you of the ideal entry. Like a pirate.
September 29, 2018
I love the options greeks for many reasons. One will be on full display today. Delta is a multi-faceted metric used by traders a variety of ways. Perhaps one of my favorites is to use it as an equalizer.
September 25, 2018
How to Make Trade Timing Irrelevant? Read the full story here.
September 24, 2018
There is one piece of the puzzle required to go from a “good amateur trader” to a professional one. And that is hedging.
September 20, 2018
Is there anything more satisfying than being wrong, yet still making money? No sir!
September 17, 2018
If you want to win, you have to learn to lose. If you don’t, financial peril awaits. I want to shed light on losses with a focus on how to think about drawdowns in trading systems.
September 13, 2018
Do you want to learn how NOT to Trade the MSCI EAFE and Emerging Markets Indexes? Come with me.
September 10, 2018
All eyes are on Apple this week because the tech juggernaut has a pretty little pullback pattern. Allow me to illustrate one way (of many) that we might trade it. This is NOT A TRADE RECOMMENDATION. I simply want to demonstrate a few things.
September 6, 2018
For today I want to reveal how I played a put calendar on AAPL this week.
August 29, 2018
If you missed last night’s meeting where Coach Tyler Craig talked about Calendar Spreads or would like to watch it again, check it out here.
August 23, 2018
I received an email the other day from a trader that bought a few stocks and has been selling covered calls against them. He had questions. I have answers. Here we go.
August 16, 2018
What does a cash flow trader do in low IV environments?I have two answers.
August 13, 2018
The VIX is a measure of implied volatility using one-month SPX options. Is it broken?
August 9, 2018
Today we’re going to focus on how to determine your directional bias.
August 2, 2018
How to apply basic formulas to better trade the options strategies? Come learn with me.
July 30, 2018
In this video tutorial, Coach Noah Davidson walks through how to place a Short Strangle order in Thinkorswim (TOS).
July 19, 2018
On paper, naked puts and covered calls are equivalent positions. Or, as the cool kids say – synthetics. That means they deliver the same profit or loss at every possible stock price. For the relationship to hold true, however, you have to use the same strike and month.
July 12, 2018
Misguided lemmings who tout options as riskier than stock don’t realize that they’re painting with too broad a brush. The reality is options can be safer than stock if used properly.
July 9, 2018
A recent Options Report included FedEx as an oversold bounce candidate. Let me share how I traded it. This will illustrate the benefits of bull put spreads, scaling-in, and proper management.
July 7, 2018
In this article, you are going to learn how to create your daily trading routine in only 4 steps and how Tackle Trading is the best platform to do it.
