Options Chain Trading Options It is important to grasp the foundation of options logic past the basic miser of "what is a call" or "what is a put." This blog…
Tip #2: Looking up the options chain & down the options chain to help answer the question "which strike should I buy?" Some people suggest trading ITM options, others suggest…
Tip #1 Bid / Ask spread is critical and should be a large part of the decision process you use to determine what strikes to trade, what expiration to trade,…
For a directional trade, there are two choices: unlimited opportunity and limited opportunity. With unlimited opportunity, the farther the market moves the more profit gained. Since newer traders believe that…
Learning about options leads to learning about volatility – but, that is not easily understood. There are a lot of different volatility things out there. Volatility is the reason options…
Market Breadth is an "old school" quantitative analysis function designed to provide scope and perspective to today's money flow; before we get into Cumulative TICK and how I believe it…
This discussion is going to focus on futures trading - but there will be other posts that go into options money management later. These are so very different - we…
When it comes to trading in options, the "go-to" trade for me has always been a put credit spread. With the options skew and the way options pricing works, I…