Stocks have been very choppy lately and selling pressure has started to pick up. That being said, the dips buyers have been out in force since yesterday afternoon. RUT and NDX have been particularly volatility with the daily range of the former picking up. Over the past 6 months you…
If you’re an options trader and you aren’t paying attention to volatility, then you are missing out on a chance to gain a significant edge. If you can master implied volatility then you will put yourself ahead of most of the other traders out there. Implied volatility is perhaps the…
The market is breaking out to all-time highs and it seems every man and his dog is buying in. When your taxi driver starts telling you what stocks he’s buying, it’s time to SELL, SELL, SELL! However, as the old saying goes, “the market can stay irrational longer than you…
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…
