Real-time options education and strategies
I’m putting my conclusion at the top of this post since I know at least some of you won’t make it to the end. It’s a simple bit of advice from someone (me) who has made every dumbass trade that can be conceived of at least 100 times in my long trading career. Here’s the … Read more
I’m going to show some posts from X describing the chart setup of Google that caused me to take a long Delta (bullish) position, how I traded that bullish bias and why I exited. Along the way I’ll be showing a option strategy that you’ve likely never seen before so read on! At the time … Read more
A treader needs the courage to trade when the setup is good but it feels bad. Shorting AAPL while it appeared to still be in an uptrend felt bad. I don’t like shorting stocks in an uptrend but when the price action is telling me, no, not telling me, screaming at me, that this rally … Read more
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If I handed you a book and said that it had information in it that could potentially make you a great deal of money I’ll assume you’d open it with great anticipation. You might think “I’ll just read the book and start making money right away, what could be easier than that?” You open the … Read more
Some traders may use the SPX short Call Diagonal simply as a way to collect premium and focus less on the potential directional implications of that trade. That isn’t the way that I trade them because I have certain directional expectations based on chart setups. On the chart (below) I show 2 setups. There are … Read more
Many of the Delta Hedging (DH) strategies that I frequently use revolves around selling further out of the money (OTM) options than I own to reduce or even eliminate the initial risk of a trade. That results in some version of a spread. If I don’t want to cap the potential profits of an instrument … Read more
One of the hardest things for most, maybe all traders, is to stick with a trade that is trending in the direction they expected. The answer to that dilemma is to find and utilize a method for determining when a trade has stopped trending. Let’s explore a few possibilities in this post. Below is my … Read more
Below is my current Jan17/21 short SPX Call Diagonal. This is the standard 3-day (Fri/Mon) position that I always use but since Jan20 is a market holiday then this 4-day position becomes the standard for this position only. Because SPX has moved lower I have a $2,700 open profit on the position. The initial cost … Read more
If I could summarize the overall theme of this blog in one sentence it would be this: spend most of your time figuring out how you’re going to reduce portfolio risk! I think most traders put on a trade and then stick with it until it either goes bust or the pain of holding it … Read more