The Calendar strategy requires that the stock price remain in a range in order to make a profit. If it moves too far either way, there will be a loss.
Calendars to Condors
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Two Most Common Investing Mistakes
The world of market speculating is made up of everyone from the active day trader to the longer term investor, speculating in all kinds of markets and asset classes, people all around the globe pushing buy and sell buttons each day in hopes of achieving income and wealth.
Protecting Precious Capital
?Cut your losses short and let your profits run.? So many traders chant that mantra while working in the markets
Stop Loss or Trailing Stop?
The market has moved higher, lower and higher again over the last month or so.
Options Playbook 8: Meet the Greeks, Part Three: Position Delta
In this episode, we cover position delta.
Option Block 332: How to Waste a Good Hedge
Great instruction on how to blow a hedge
Filtering out the Best Trades
When we teach our courses at Online Trading Academy, we teach our students where the proper areas to buy and sell lie on the charts.
Is This Bull Market Really Different?
With most of the major stock indices making new highs, it?s tough to argue against the bullish case for equities, particularly if you?re a long-term investor, and I?m not going to do that here, well maybe a little.
More Calendars
This is an example of evolving a position into one that works better in response to changing conditions.
Mom, Us Traders Aren’t Unique
With all due respect to all of the fantastic moms out there, I?m sorry to have to burst your bubble just a bit.
Options Playbook Radio 7: Meet the Greeks, Part Two: Gamma
Options Playbook Radio introduces gamma.
Trading Tech Talk: The Great Flash Boys Debate
All HFT all the time.