How To Trade A Poor Man’s Covered Call
Most traders worth their salt have used, or at least heard of covered calls. Covered calls are really easy to implement and are a proven...
Using Cash Secured Puts To Pick Up Stocks For Less
Getting paid while you wait, I like the sound of that. A cash secured put is a conservative options strategy that can be used to...
Investor Sentiment Update and Outlook: 5 Charts
The much awaited and widely predicted correction (that no one really ended up predicting) has turned 2 weeks old now, and driven the S&P...
Stock Market Trends Review & Outlook (Week 7 / 2018)
THE BIG PICTURE Investors are operating in a volatile stock market climate for the first time in many months. And the reality of a stock...
Intermarket Chart Attack: Not Done
This is an Intermarket Analysis chart review that I provided to my fishing club members this past weekend which graphically represents relationships (strong and weak) that can...
Chart Spotlight: Volatility Sinks To Start 2018
Investors read a lot about the persistence of low volatility in the markets throughout 2017. And just 3 trading days into 2018 and volatility is...
SKEW Index Continues To Diverge From VIX Index
The story of volatility has been very one-sided of late. There’s been low volatility despite various geopolitical headlines which in the past would have...
Options Trade Idea: $TLT Treasury ETF Credit Call Spread
Last Wednesday, iShares 20+ year Treasury bond ETF (TLT) got rejected at the underside of a broken trend line from March this year. The...
Volatility Metrics Calling For A Breather For Stocks
Major U.S. stock market indices rallied to fresh new highs last week. Even small-caps, which until recently had been lagging their large-cap brethren, joined...
How To Trade An Iron Condor
An Iron Condor is an options trading strategy where the seller of the Iron condor is looking for the price of the underlying security...
