Options Earnings Strategies
Options Earnings Strategies Learn the best options earnings strategies. Most investors are trading options during earnings season wrong. In this video I'm going to show you the 3 best options strategies for trading earnings announcements. You may know what earnings are, but less know about the different strategies to use when trading options in a…
Intraday Trading
Intraday Trading When the market makes no sense it's time for some intraday trading. Today was a day all my intraday trading was "gold, Jerry, gold!" No, I wasn't trading gold, but everything else. I caught nearly a full point move in ZB bonds futures. Got some great action oil futures. I was intraday trading…
Straddle Option
Straddle Option With volatility low buying a straddle option in the SPY is one way to play an expected increase in volatility. Tonight let's review a few trades that have turned profitable for us. Also, we are going to set up a trade that you have heard about called buying gamma. A straddle option is…
Stock Market Volatility
Stock Market Volatility Stock market volatility returns today with a broad based sell off. TheoTraders were well positioned for today's stock market volatility. When volatility spikes there is no time to position yourself. You need to be positioned in advance. Here's what I'm looking for tomorrow to tell if the stock market volatility will continue…
Pairs Trading
Pairs Trading Pairs trading set up between the XLF and QQQ.
Long Gamma Trading
Long Gamma Trading This market is perfect for long gamma trading. We will talk more about being long gamma in tomorrow's trading room and set up some trades. The market continues to be quiet with volatility as low as it can get. The selling today was on very light volume. Let's take a look at…
Probability of Touching
Probability of Touching Probability of touching provides all traders with a very important piece of information. Trading is all about probabilities and knowing what the probability of a stock reaching a certain price will help you in all of areas of trading. Let's take a look at one ares.
Low Implied Volatility Strategy
Low Implied Volatility Strategy When implied volatility is low, we need to use a strategy that will benefit from an increase in volatility. We usually like to sell implied volatility in order to give us a statistical edge in the markets. However, when implied volatility is essentially zero - what do you do? Let's find…
Liquidity Risk
Liquidity Risk Liquidity risk was on the table today as the stock market saw its lowest volume day since the week between Christmas and New Years Eve last year. There were very few stocks trading enough volume today to even look at. NFLX and FB were the notable exceptions today barely. This was a day…
How to Trade Earnings with Options
How to Trade Earnings with Options With earnings season coming up everyone wants to know how to trade earnings with options. There seems to be big returns to be made from the move in the stock that after earnings are reported. Let's take a look into the truth around how to trade earnings with options.