Options Theory Blog: Forecasting Stock Prices with Options
July 29, 2021
Come learn how to forecast where the stock needs to be for your option spread to be worth X.
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July 29, 2021
Come learn how to forecast where the stock needs to be for your option spread to be worth X.
July 15, 2021
Watch me teach and walk through how to build a bull put spread trade.
July 8, 2021
Come see what boarding the ark looks like on a stormy day.
July 7, 2021
Crude oil is taking it on the chin this week, suffering its first break of the 20-day moving average since mid-May. The correction is causing no shortage of register ringing across the energy sector, which isn’t helping the Russell 2000.
July 1, 2021
Let’s look at spreading your eggs into multiple baskets when building a long-term, passive account.
June 30, 2021
Over the next few Tackle Today messages, we’re going to discuss best practices for portfolio protection. In this case (and in almost all cases), when I say “portfolio protection,” I mean buying put options or put spreads as insurance for your portfolio.
June 24, 2021
This is how you take your trading to the next level: Join the Trading Labs Team Phoenix.
June 17, 2021
Hug a commodity trader today. They need it.
June 10, 2021
This is what a quality bull retracement looks like. And, here’s how to build a scaling bull put spread around it.
June 9, 2021
If stacking cash in a diversified stock fund is part of your portfolio plan, then it’s worth knowing something about expense ratios.
June 3, 2021
Where things get tricky for new traders is when the short call moves in-the-money. What then? Let’s break down a few key points.
June 2, 2021
When I was a novice investor, I worried about things outside of my control. Moreover, I would give them power over my emotions. It was pure idiocy. Why should my state of mind depend on factors I can’t influence – such as whether the market rises or falls on any given day, or the size of market returns for the year?
May 26, 2021
Semiconductor stocks sit at the intersection of growth and technology. Last year their location was perfect. Growth stocks were booming, and technology was the hot sector. This year? Not so much. If you’ve been following our Halftime Reports and weekend Scouting Reports, then you know we haven’t thrown much love toward chip stocks lately.
May 22, 2021
How to think about stop losses with options versus with stock. Risk management 101.
May 19, 2021
Seagate Technology (STX) made our Scouting Report on May 8th due to its textbook bull retracement pattern. The way that the stock played out after triggering illustrates the inherent trade-off of using a tight stop loss as a swing trader versus using options. If you bought the stock for a swing, you likely put your stop loss under the pivot low at $86.87.
May 13, 2021
Come learn how we identify stop, entry, and targets for the Scouting Reports.
May 12, 2021
If you’re going to find success when actively trading, then you better familiarize yourself with the best practices of stop losses. Consider today’s message a primer on the topic.
May 5, 2021
Earnings season is winding down with many of the heavy hitters already having stepped up to the plate. While few scored massive gains in their share prices, even fewer suffered outsized losses. The stock market remains steady near record highs suggesting that the numbers were good enough to keep buyers’ conviction red-hot.
April 28, 2021
If patterns never failed, then trading would be a cinch. Find a bull breakout setup, queue up your order, and watch the profits flow into your account.
Unfortunately, real life is a great deal messier. Some fakeouts masquerade as breakouts. Then, they stab you in the back.
