Occam's Razor is a scientific principle that suggests the simplest answer is typically the right answer.

A friend of mine who has worked there for many years has built up a large position in the stock. His dilemma? He wants to stay bullish on his employer, but he may have too much stock in one single company from the perspective of a balanced portfolio.

Similar to life or other careers, traders evolve through their experiences (good or bad), or perhaps because what they seek from the markets changes.

One of the trades many of my option mentoring students are really paying attention to are put ratio spreads

While implied volatility has fallen a bit from where it was on Friday, volatility skew, or smile has stayed elevated to a level that has caused iron condors to be a somewhat wider, and pay a touch more, both on the upside and the downside than the last time VIX got to 17%.

In this article, I will address some of the different possible outcomes for a short vertical spread.

trendlines can be very helpful in your trading, as long as you use them correctly

Well, I decided to take a relaxing break from the seriousness of trading to look at the lighter side of stock analysis.

Proper Knowledge is Power in trading; this means making money if you have it and losing it if you don't.

The advantage to selling calls, of course, is the option premium you collect in exchange for being willing to part with your stock at the strike price of the option you sold. The disadvantage is that you sacrifice potential upside gains.

After the hail of fire that daring to suggest gold might be overpriced drew upon reposting my latest gold-bubble article on Seeking Alpha, I decided to stay away from writing anything that implies "value" is nothing but a social construct.

In this article, I will go over a double diagonal trade that I was working on with Online Trading Academy option students in Colorado last month