This is a guest post from Dan at ThetaTrend.com, a blog focused on Trend Following with Options. He aims to develop and share simple rules based systems for trading ETF’s and Options. When I first started trading options, I was afraid to trade directionally. I heard that most options expire…
The broken winged butterfly options strategy is a strategy similar to the butterfly strategy and was coined by Futures Magazine. Similar to the Butterfly strategy the Broken Winged Butterfly attempts to captures a certain range where a security will trade over a specific period of time. The main difference between…
WHAT IS GAMMA? Gamma is the ugly step child of option greeks. You know, the one that gets left in the corner and no one pays any attention to it? The problem is, that step child is going to cause you some real headaches unless you give it the attention…
Double diagonals are not your average options strategy. Let’s take a detailed look at this little known strategy and see if it’s worthy of adding to your option trading arsenal. We’ll look at: Trade setup Breakevens, max profit and max loss How Implied volatility affects the trade Managing the trade…
There are some great trading blogs out there these days and the number of bloggers seems to be rapidly expanding. There are a few bloggers who I read on a regular basis. These guys are the crème de le crème of option bloggers who provide great market analysis, trade ideas…
Twitter is a fantastic place to find trade ideas and check what’s happening in the markets. The problem is, there is a lot of noise and a lot of spammers. So how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? It was no easy task, but I’ve separated the top…
