July 29, 2018
Hey traders, welcome back for another edition of Notes from a Newbie. Well its that time of the year again, the time when amateur traders gamble away their hopes and dreams for a small shot at a big payday. The time that can humble the best of traders and wreck the worst of them. That’sREAD MORE
July 15, 2018
Hey traders, welcome back for another edition of Notes from a Newbie. I hope you all have been enjoying the fruits this recent bullish trend in the market has provided. The last three weeks have been rather rewarding for me and have given me a little hope that progress is, in fact, taking place. ButREAD MORE
July 12, 2018
Debit Spreads with positive Theta do exist. Oh yes, they do.
July 12, 2018
Hey There Tackle Traders! We are back this week to wrap up our first stock trade. We went through the whole process of putting on our first live trade in the last two rookie blog videos and we did this manually speaking as in working through the math by hand. As I promised lastREAD MORE
July 5, 2018
Good Day Tackle Traders! We are back this week and we are continuing on with our first live trade. Last week we determined our market bias, we did this by looking at the major indexes and the VIX to determine where we thought the market might be heading and we did this usingREAD MORE
June 28, 2018
Like any other business out there, your trading business must have a routine. Continue reading.
June 27, 2018
Hello Tackle Traders! We are back after a short hiatus and we are getting into the good stuff. We have covered a lot of ground to get to this point. We have gone through the goal-setting process, we have learned how to set SMART goals and what it takes to make those goalsREAD MORE
June 7, 2018
Here’s my take on building a Naked Put selling system.
May 24, 2018
Today, we’re focusing on 2 bi-directional strategies: Long Straddle and Long Strangle
May 18, 2018
Last Update: July 2021 Today we’re combining options and technical analysis. It’s a match made in trader Heaven and thus delivers happiness and, hopefully, dough – lots of dough. Tackle’s resident wisdom dispenser, Mark, suggested the topic, so I’m running with it. First, let’s make sure we all understand support and resistance. Then, we’ll talkREAD MORE
May 6, 2018
Here’s what I’ve learned from trading covered calls on $X.
April 23, 2018
It’s been about a year since I pontificated on the concept of return on time invested. And since I just had a profit target tagged in rapid-fire fashion, now is a perfect time to trot the topic back out and make sure any and all newcomers to the Tackle family are aware of its power.
March 26, 2018
Price gaps are a pain. They rob traders of ideal entry points and throw a wrench into clean price patterns.
March 18, 2018
Last update: August 2021 For the degenerate speculator, long calls are the best. They offer a leveraged payoff that keeps you coming back for more. Of course, that’s if you’re right. The challenge is they’re dang tricky to minimize loss with if prices sour. But that’s a topic for another day. Today we’re talking aboutREAD MORE
March 11, 2018
Today we’ll explore a time-tested tactic to avoid seller’s remorse forever. It’s known as the stock replacement strategy: long calls.
February 18, 2018
How much a tock will move during earnings announcement? This is where the Market Maker Move (MMM) comes in.
February 11, 2018
Today I want to talk a bit about the impact VIX spikes have on the cost of portfolio protection.
February 4, 2018
A spike in implied volatility. A return of fear. An inflation of option premiums. Come see what happened.
January 28, 2018
Decision trees offer the ability to model potential trade adjustments based on changes in the underlying market.
January 14, 2018
There are times when Covered Calls beat Naked Puts. Come learn with me.
