Real-time options education and strategies
In this post I’m going to demonstrate how and when I use Market Profile in my price analysis. It is far from from a comprehensive look so if you’re interested in learning much more about market profile I suggest looking at the works of Jim Dalton at Jim Dalton Trading and/or Peter Reznicek at Shadow … Read more
I couldn’t have said it any better than Josh did and I appreciate the fact that Chris added ‘applies to markets‘! After Friday’s rally lots of people on Twitter talking about new all-time highs for the markets. Someone even tweeted at me “Short $spy = financial suicide until it hits 600 on 1/1/25”. He could … Read more
I trade on the side. I learned to trade during a time in my life when I could devote my entire attention to it. Now, I have a demanding job with long and irregular hours and young kids at home. I have little time to ponder the market in the evenings and almost no time … Read more
This SPX chart reflects my current analysis of the daily time frame. The 8 SMA bands are still upsloping which represents a price uptrend although good location for a new long is currently down around 4050. That’s well below Friday’s closing price of 4105 but I’m not basing my current trade on the rising lower … Read more
Most of the comments in this post are written on the charts. You’re welcome to download and save them to refer back to them periodically when you need a reminder about the importance of patience in trading! Lack of patience and over-trading is likely one of the biggest causes of losing money in trading. You’ll … Read more
This post is for every type of trader but especially those who either don’t have the time or the ability to trade all day long. Even those traders who can trade at any time it’s good to have a primary position that is in the direction of the underlying trend that doesn’t need to be … Read more
There’s no question in my mind that algos trade the Fibs. Keep in mind that there are Fib retracements & Fib extensions and they compliment each other. The 50%-61.8% Fib retracements are more important to my work since they offer good location for trade initiation. I then use a process of Delta Hedging (DH) to … Read more
Lots of ‘experts’ are calling for a market crash but I don’t know of any traders who’ve had long term success following the ‘experts so what do the charts say? SPX had a strong rally in the final hour of trading on Friday but still ended the week down about 200 points. The Friday afternoon … Read more
This post is about the smaller account that I manage for somebody. The positions are smaller and easier to understand than my positions which don’t seem that helpful for demonstrating good trading techniques! 😄 On twitter I refer to it as the PDT account. PDT is short for Pattern Day Trader and if you don’t … Read more
Over the years I’ve developed my own methods of analyzing price action and that has helped me stay on the right side of the trade most of the time. Of course there are going to be failures along the way that aren’t necessarily due to a misreading of the chart but rather a news events … Read more