September 7, 2009

• What’s the Best Overbought / Oversold Indicator?

  Now and then I get asked what are the best technical indicators to use in trading. (…)

May 6, 2009

• Do Fibonacci Retracements Fib?

  Nothing ruffles feathers of some traders more than bringing up the mystical Fibonacci series! (…)

December 8, 2008

• Decision Time: Are You In or Out?

  Team, we have a serious decision to make right here and right now.
  The charts are telling us that a few investors are speaking loudly. (…)

October 16, 2008

• OTM Near-Term Vertical Debit Spreads

  As we mentioned a week ago, the market has been extremely volatile. And extreme volatility exposes open positions to increased risk.
  The catch? (…)

May 1, 2008

• Is Trading Stock Options a “Lone Wolf” Activity?

  I remember one particular email I received a few months ago. Or maybe it was a comment on this blog. I can’t remember exactly where I read it. (…)

April 14, 2008

• How I Trade Stock Options

  When I make a trade, I’m not looking to hold a position for a year, six months, or even three months. I want to enter and exit my trade within three to 40 days. (…)

February 14, 2008

• Three Rules for Option Trading

  I’ve gotten a lot of questions about how I trade options lately. Many of those questions are really roundabout ways of asking if I have any hard and fast rules for trading options. (…)

February 1, 2008

• Text Book Trading Trainer Breakout Example

  I was reviewing our ‘Charts our Interest’ videos from the last  couple of weeks to trace the volatility - the schizophrenic roller coaster ride, if you will - of the market.  (I create ~20 minutes of ‘Charts of Interest’ videos at the end of every trading session and distribute them to the members of our Trading Trainer Community through our members only website.)  This kind of inventory taking, looking at what I’ve been through in the last weeks, always serves to ground me to make solid trading decisions moving forward. (…)

January 30, 2008

• Option Trading with Zero Risk

  Everybody wants the leverage (and potential profit) that comes with option trading, but few people are eager to risk their hard-earned money to see if it will actually work. (…)

January 24, 2008

• How to Enter a Position

  In a recent poll of Trading Trainer members, I discovered that one issue a lot of option traders have is determining when to enter a position. (…)

January 22, 2008

• Heads Up: Today’s Events Have Rendered Our Technical Analysis Conclusions Moot

  Heads Up:  After two days of massive sell offs in the Asian and European markets, the U.S. (…)

January 2, 2008

• The January Effect

  Today is the first trading day of the year. (…)