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Our strategy for trading earnings has proven profitable during volatile markets. Take a look: the stats speak for themselves. Learn the best way to profit from earnings announcements.
Our strategy for trading earnings has proven profitable during volatile markets. Take a look: the stats speak for themselves. Learn the best way to profit from earnings announcements.
Last week I talked about the one tool you MUST use when trading options . . . expected move. The expected move tells you exactly what the market is predicting, in real-time, where a stock will close at a specific time. Yes, let me repeat, there is an accurate statistical tool out there for everyone … Continue reading Get Your Platforms Ready: Special Live Trade On Wednesday
How do I choose my strike prices? It is a question I receive almost weekly. And it’s a fairly straightforward process once you understand the necessary steps. You can use this short step-by-step guide to help you make more informed decisions in the future. Successful options traders share one commonality: They all follow a quant-based … Continue reading The One Tool All Options Traders Must Use
Options mania is here! Just look at one of the more reliable indicators of future market direction known as the put/call ratio. The put/call ratio is a measure of the daily and weekly volume of puts and calls in the market. A volume of too many put buyers signals a market bottom is near, while … Continue reading Options Mania Is Here. How Do We Take Advantage?
There is no doubt that this week will go down as one of the wildest weeks in market history. Finance students will be reading about how a community of social media-fueled investors moved together to push a group of heavily shorted stocks significantly higher. Stocks like GameStop (GME) and AMC Entertainment (AMC) have been a … Continue reading Trade GameStop Volatility Without Buying Shares
The Mastercard earnings report next week presents an opportunity for implementing my earnings trading strategy.
As a quantitative trader who leans towards a contrarian approach, I use the beginning of each year to evaluate the most beaten-down sectors over the past year as I research the best trades ahead. So, as I rolled through the various sector and country ETFs, I stumbled on a few potential opportunities, which I plan … Continue reading Will This Be One of the Best Trades of 2021?
As many of you already know, I use a wide variety of options strategies that center around a quantitative approach. I prefer to diversify my options strategies to take advantage of different market environments (bullish, bearish and neutral) and I use these options strategies over different durations (short, intermediate and long-term). The reason: I can’t … Continue reading My Top Strategies and Approach for 2021
Diversification is a misunderstood concept. Most investors think that if they are diversified in several companies, over various sectors, well, they are diversified. Not true. Here’s why: The U.S. stock market saw one of its fastest declines on record in March 2020. The Dow Jones index experienced its second worst day ever, and the relatively … Continue reading How We Beat the Market in 2020 . . . With True Diversification
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