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Option Block 246: Jump on the Boat with the 10-Year Note
There's a new VIX in town.... More »
Looking Into The Futures
This week I had the pleasure of teaching the Professional Trader class at our Philadelphia campus, welcoming another group of fantastic students to Online Trading Academy and our core strategy of recognizing true supply... More »
Risk/Reward is Ever Changing
There are quite a few option strategies have defined maximum rewards that are approached as a result of the passage of time, changes in implied volatility (IV), and/or movement or lack of movement in price of the stock. ... More »
Options Insider Radio: Flexing Trading Muscles with Flextrade
Recorded at OIC 2013, Mark is joined by Rob Brogan, Vice President of Equity Derivative Sales at Flextrade... More »
Candle Power
Trading is simple, but it is not easy!... More »
Options Insider Radio: LiveVol Live at OIC
Mark is joined by Catherine Clay, Chief Strategy Officer of LiveVol... More »
The OTA Bull Trap
The cheetah and the gazelle…the crocodile and the wildebeest…the polar bear and the seal…the professional trader and the novice trader…what do these four relationships have in common? ... More »
The Musk Effect
Most of the news is out from Big Ben and the skinny is the Fed could taper bond purchases.... More »
Improper Knowledge Translates Into Bad Results
Trading is unlike any other profession in many respects. This is true because of the multitudes that try doing this profession, very few ever garner the results they strive for. ... More »
Wrapping Up Synthetics
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been writing about creating synthetic positions, which means making a position that looks like a call out of stock and puts, or vice versa. Today I’ll wrap up that topic for now,... More »
Option Block 245: Golden Tickets & Oompa Loompas
Theta gremlins, oompa loompas, and options. It's the trifecta of greatness.... More »
What Do We Have in Common?
Hello traders! It’s been another fun couple of weeks in the forex market since I last wrote this column. ... More »
Big Money Flow
As a student of Online Trading Academy, I was taught to watch the actions of the big brokers and to mimic them as they took money from the uneducated, naive investors and traders. As a trader and instructor, I live by... More »
Volatility Views 91: Historical Lows
Can vol go any lower?... More »
The Calming Event
When we are putting our money at risk in the financial markets, it is easy to get nervous and excited. These common emotions can wreak havoc on our trading accounts if not put into check.... More »
Trading and Time Continued
Recently I wrote an article on the concept of time. In today’s piece, I want to focus on a topic that also has to do with time. ... More »
Indicator Filter
Successful traders rely on reading price movement itself in order to find and manage trades. ... More »
GOOG Skew Bend-o-Rama
With the VIX up .05 to 12.86 as I write this the market is taking a long overdue breather. ... More »
Reviewing Strangles with AAPL
There is no doubt we have discussed straddles in the past in this blog. A straddle is an option strategy that traders can use when the market is volatile but direction is uncertain. ... More »
Option Block 244: Car Talk
It might go off the rails a bit into car talk, but there are options, too... More »
More Than One Way to Skin A Cat
In last week’s article, I wrote about creating an option position out of different ingredients. We started with a stock position, and then added a protective put for insurance. This combination is called a married put.... More »
Lots of Diversification Under My Tin Foil Hat
Very often someone with trading experience will quickly delve deeply into a problem that they have with trading. “Whenever I buy, the market immediately turns down,” or “My stop gets hit too often and then the... More »
Stop Losses
A lot of traders wrestle with the question of what types of protective stops to place and how to place them. There are many different styles of stops that you can place. I think they are all beneficial. ... More »
Losing to Win
My whole life, I have been very involved in sports. Ice hockey, soccer, golf, and tennis are the sports I love to compete in. Playing hockey at a high level, I learned how to win consistently. ... More »
VIX & SPX Up. Is a Crash Imminent?
Memory is a funky thing in the market. Right now many new investors and traders have the 2008 crash in the forefront of their minds. ... More »
Stock Option Picks Require Analyzing the Overall Market as Well as Individual Stock Assessment
Making stock option picks with huge profit potentials, whether the market is up or down, depends on diligent market research and a thorough understanding of stock option fundamentals.... More »
Option Block 243: The Viceroy Trade
What IS the viceroy trade? Arrested Development makes NFLX pop.... More »
Options Insider Radio: BOX Enters Jumbo SPY Fray
Jumbo SPY. BOX's view of minis, and more.... More »
Volatility Trading Digest – Selective VIX Hedge
Since the May VIX Futures (VIK3) expire on the opening Wednesday May 22 they are the most responsive to changes in the VIX price.... More »
Volatility Trading Digest – Sell in May and Go Away?
Well its that time of the year to once again ponder the old market adage and add our unique options perspective to the many comments and observations being offered by other analysts midway through this important month.... More »
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