Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.

Since the S&P 500 Index along with some other important indices made key reversals on Thursday, one way to manage positions is by hedging longs until the current resistance area is clearly exceeded to the upside.

Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.

While similar in concept to a pair of aces, the pairs we are thinking about come from arbitrage strategies and the practice of matching a long position with a short position in two stocks in the same sector.

Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.

A review of last week's market and a preview of the coming week from a volatility perspective.

Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.

Once again, we turn our focus to takeover activity in those companies with listed options. We review four deals that have already been announced and three that are still in the rumor stage.

Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.

Here at the end of the low-volume trading season it is time to update the working Head & Shoulders Top pattern first outlined in August.

Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.

Contrary to what some may assume, an Outside Range Day is not a day at the driving range, but a technical analysis pattern described as when the price makes a high that is higher and the low that is lower than previous day.