Options Theory: A Straddle Win
December 21, 2018
Well, that escalated quickly. Last week we highlighted why long straddles were tempting on SPY. Today I want to follow-up to see how the idea fared.
December 21, 2018
Well, that escalated quickly. Last week we highlighted why long straddles were tempting on SPY. Today I want to follow-up to see how the idea fared.
November 29, 2018
$AXP – you are a rockstar.
November 16, 2018
Contrarians in a bear market seek signs of capitulation. Specifically, evidence that bulls are throwing in the towel and abandoning their once beloved positions.
November 8, 2018
Nothing like a monster “V” shaped reversal to get the juices flowing, am I right? Count me among those suffering whiplash over the market’s death-defying whoops and whirls of late. Yesterday was particularly annoying for those short delta toting traders like me.
November 1, 2018
When markets crash, tactics that used to work don’t and those that used to not work do. But before you go hog wild embracing these once-unfavorable-but-now-favorable techniques, you need to recognize something. Once the world turns right side up again (and it will) these seemingly smart ideas will become stupid once more.
October 25, 2018
Today the “theory” part of our blog title takes center stage. Increased chatter on the impact of higher interest rates is making the rounds, so I wanted to bring it to your attention if it wasn’t already.
October 18, 2018
Today we’re tackling a few key questions surrounding portfolio management & beta weighting.
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 20, 2018
Is there anything more satisfying than being wrong, yet still making money? No sir!
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 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.
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.
April 5, 2018
I’ve sat at the feet of two traders who were masters at scaling. One deployed the tactic with options, the other with forex. I caught a glimpse of the idea’s brilliance from the first gunslinger, but it was the second’s explanation and illustration that really sealed the deal for me.
February 25, 2018
When we last departed I left you with an important question. Namely, “what do you do with the knowledge of how much a stock is expected to gap on earnings?”
December 17, 2017
The first and most logical progression after the long call is the bull call spread. It’s also known as a long call vertical.
December 10, 2017
The long call is a seductive chap. Today kicks off the first in a multi-part series on options strategies.
November 5, 2017
With a sound foundation on the what and why of hedging, we’re now ready to dissect the devil. Namely, when do I place my hedge?
October 29, 2017
In part one of our new series on hedging, we defined precisely what the concept means. Today we’re turning to the why.
