Oil/oil related issues are still dominating trading. Crude taking it on the chin. Brent & WTI hovering at crazy ranges.
Option Block 394: Oil Speculators Get Burned
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The Iron Condor
An iron condor occurs when a trader combines a bear call spread and a bull put spread. It is essentially combining two credit spreads as one trade.
Volatility Trading Digest – Skew Update
As year-end approaches with the major large capitalization indexes nervously near all time highs, we thought an update of current market skew condition could be useful.
Option Block 393: Oil, LULU, Swaps, and More
Why are people fighting over Dodd-Frank and derivatives?
Beyond Technical Analysis of Futures Markets
Learning to be a professional Futures trader involves much more than just technical analysis.
Moneyness and AAPL
Moneyness isn?t a word, is it? It won?t be found on spell-check, but moneyness is a very important term when it comes to learning to trade options.
Don?t Sweat The Trading Losses
If I put each trading loss in its proper place which is in the ?winning? strategy category, all of a sudden a trading loss is a must for success.
Opportunities Are Out There in Forex
One of the most common questions I have been getting lately from my regular readers of these articles and my students alike is about the current lack of volatility in the worldwide Forex markets.
Weekly Options and Theta
Premium sellers see the most dramatic erosion of the time value (theta) of options they have sold during the last week of the options cycle
Option Block 392: The Great Broken Wing Butterfly Debate
In this Option Block the all-stars take on two very important topics: broken wing butterflies and pizza.
Options Playbook Radio 39: Diagonal Spreads, Continued
Now that you’ve recovered from Thanksgiving indulgences, let’s get back to diagonal spreads
Trading Tech Talk 20: Real-Time Risk and Margin in the Cloud
Check out today’s Trading Tech Talk: Real-Time Risk and Margin in the Cloud