Real-time options education and strategies
Over the past couple years on this blog I’ve shown countless option strategies and chart setups with the goal of educating traders on ways to reduce risk in trading. Still, there are many, actually I’d say most, traders who are confused and suffering from information overload and I may be guilty of adding to that. … Read more
This will be a short post which I will revisit and add more content if/when I have time. The topic is the short Diagonal which is a Credit spread. Being a Credit spread means that the short leg is closer to ATM (at-the-money) and the long leg is further OTM (out-of-the-money). Credit spreads have a … Read more
Just a reminder that this, or any post on this blog, is based on trades that I have either placed or considered placing and should not be taken as a recommendation for anyone else to trade! Below is the Daily chart of RUT (Russell 2000 Index). Previously I viewed this chart as a very bearish … Read more
I use Fibonacci retracements & extensions (Fibs) extensively in my trading. Fibonacci sequence numbers (1,3,5,8,13,21,34,etc) have a fascinating relationship with growth rates in nature but that’s not why I rely on them for my trading. The fact is that many (if not most) trading algorithms are programmed to trade Fib levels as both retracements of … Read more
This post is about establishing multiple positions in AAPL that are placed in different expiry’s to allow for the harvesting of profits throughout the year. Get it? Apple, harvest…hmmm…tough crowd. 😒 Okay, moving on. This was my tweet on July 22 mentioning the AAPL market profile chart. This post isn’t about market profile so I … Read more
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
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
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