I haven’t mentioned any trading courses on this site in a long time but I recently purchased a stock trading course called Stock Trading Ninja that was pretty good and worthy of a review. Before we get into the review of this course, I want to quickly talk about the typical trader learning process. Basic …
Weekly Options Credit Spread Weekly options credit spread strategy is one of the most popular option trade strategies with weekly options. For those that are new to options, a credit spread is where you sell one option that is closer to the current market price and buy an offsetting option at a farther out of …
Weekly options iron condor trade is a type of options trade strategy that combines a put credit spread with a call credit spread. This is a popular strategy for monthly index options or with non-trending stock as you don’t want to enter iron condors on volatile stocks. Weekly options credit spread trade is the most …
If you have traded options before then you are probably already familiar with options Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega). These “Greeks” are how investors evaluate various options and how many professionals managing their options portfolios. One of the most popular Greeks is “Delta”, which we will discuss in this post. Understanding Options Delta Delta measures …
I got some questions about the The Cycle code so here is a quick overview. The Cycle code is a technical trading system based on using the 1.793% price cycle of the S&P 500 to accurately gauge market swing tops and bottoms. The premise is that every market has a cycle code which is a …
I have received the question of “What Options Trading Strategies Work ?”. To be honest there is no exact answer to this question. Let me explain. Most traders understand that the market is a zero sum game so there is a winner and a loser, but with options you have the ability to make money …
Can You Day Trade Options ? The answer is, yes and no. First of all options fall into the day trading “Pattern trader” rules so you need to have $25,000 in your account to not trigger the day trading restrictions. (That is one of the reasons why many small investors use futures for day trading …
In the last post of this “Learning Options Trading” series, we discussed Options Trading Strategies that you could implement in your trading. The difficult thing is that there are lots of options strategies and it can be a little difficult to figure out how to actually get started. There are all kinds of stock and …
Many people new to options get a little overwhelmed by all the strategies and usually have a hard time trying to find the best options trading strategy. Honestly, there is no “Best” strategy but there are definitely specific strategies for different types of trading and usually the best suggestion is to start slow with the …
Options premium prices are derived using a mathematical pricing formula based on components calls “Options Greeks”. Fortunately you don’t have to understand the calculation but it is useful to understand what the various options Greeks are and how to interpret them. All brokerage platforms with options trading capability automatically calculate the Greeks for you. Therefore, …
