Options Theory: How to Understand Interest Rates
February 27, 2021
If the Fed is keeping rates at zero, then why are rates rising? Come close and I shall tell the tale.
February 27, 2021
If the Fed is keeping rates at zero, then why are rates rising? Come close and I shall tell the tale.
February 18, 2021
The pullback has arrived. Here are three tempting targets to buy.
February 15, 2021
Why valuations shouldn’t matter to the long-term investor, and why stocks beat gold.
January 28, 2021
Third-largest one-day VIX spike? Smells like an overreaction. Regardless, here are my top 6 trading tips for playing in a high VIX environment.
December 31, 2020
You have questions on how to protect a portfolio. I have some answers. You’ll find them here.
November 20, 2020
How do you decide between buying stock and buying calls? Here’s my answer.
September 10, 2020
Market volatility is keeping traders on their toes. And I love it. Here’s how I’m wrestling the market right now.
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.
June 25, 2020
One of the most important concepts to understand in options trading is Time.
November 7, 2019
Rather than waxing eloquent with stories and such, I’m using a logic chain to build your understanding of Theta. This will allow us to progress incrementally until we’ve crafted a holistic understanding of Theta Targeting.
August 20, 2019
Imagine you can have the best of two worlds on the same trade: debit spreads with positive theta. How happy would you be?
August 6, 2019
If the Chinese government has this much power to drive the US equities down, therefore we must infer the US bulls are made out of porcelain.
July 30, 2019
We’re in the middle of the earnings season. Unpredictable weeks require you to take at least one action: pop your collar.
June 14, 2019
The title is a mouthful, I know. Lots of big words and such. Here’s the gist of today’s message: I’m going to show you how to calculate the proper amount of exposure for your active trading portfolio.
May 31, 2019
Take the covered call, for instance. It’s a system I touch on almost every single day in my teaching ventures. For the uninitiated, a brief review is in order.
February 22, 2019
Today we’re dispensing with theory. It’s time to get practical. I enjoyed laying out cash flow ideas on Coca-Cola, so I’m going back to the well with a case study on none other than Electronic Arts.
February 18, 2019
One of the perks of using options is yield enhancement. Through the use of short puts and covered calls, derivative traders can take an otherwise lackluster dividend and make it POP! Like adding color to a Today I want to illustrate exactly how its done using shares of Coca-Cola.
January 28, 2019
Let’s play a game. A risk management game.
January 3, 2019
Apple is rotting. But we’re going to eat it anyway. I’ll have to mix-in some options to make the meal tasty enough, but I think we can come up with something both palatable and profitable.
December 28, 2018
Let’s take a look at a recent bond trade to discover how I adjusted a put fly gone awry.
