Periodically reviewing your trades is probably one of the most overlooked aspects of trading that beginners make. It is also one of the easiest things to do, and is something that can make an enormous difference to your trading. I know it’s not sexy or exciting, like actually seeing your…
So, it’s turns out stocks can go down afterall, who would have thought? While some may have been caught unawares by Friday’s downturn, many of us have been expecting something like this for a while. In fact, a decent pull back and a reality check for the perma bulls out…
The first step in choosing which stocks and ETF’s on which to sell covered calls is to exclude those which are not appropriate. For example, you should avoid leveraged ETF’s, small biotechs, start-ups and thinly traded stocks. Next you can count out any stock that have a very illiquid options…
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…
