Articles on institutional positioning, options flow, price action, and the neuroscience of trading.
Most traders think of options and stocks as two separate markets. They’re not. Every time a large options position is opened, a market maker on the other side immediately starts buying or…
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If you’ve ever seen price stall at a level that wasn’t on any chart you were looking at, or reverse exactly where you didn’t expect it to, there’s a good chance gamma positioning was the reason. Most traders spend years studying candlesticks, moving averages, along with support and resistance levels they see on the chart.…
With the options market exploding in terms of volume and trading activity, we’ve seen the increase of multiple option expiries per week. This has only increased the number of participants day trading options. Combining this with the fact that hedge funds, prop firms and institutions are actively day trading options, it should be no surprise…
What is Options Trading? When you are trading stocks or currency pairs in the forex market, your trading is very straight forward. In stocks, you are either buying or selling a stock. If you buy a stock and it doesn’t go anywhere, you make no money (assuming there is no dividend on the stock). When…
Options trading is very unique and often difficult to learn for beginners. In this free 2-part Options Trading video series, we will give you the foundation and step by step guide on how to trade options, learn option strategies and how you can generate income trading options. Welcome to our Options Trading Course for Beginners.
All option strategies are built using calls and puts. Once you fully understand how calls and puts work, you have the foundation to explore all options, strategies and setups going forward, whether they are more complex or not. All options are calls and puts or variations and combinations of calls and puts, so your ability…
In this article we’re going to teach you a strategy that you can use to generate income on your stock trading portfolio, called the “covered call strategy“. The covered call strategy is a strategy you can use to give you a second income on your stock trades, improve your profit potential and generate monthly income.…
In this video learn how to use covered calls and option strategies to generate income.
One of the most important questions option traders want to know – is writing options profitable as a trading strategy? The answer is yes, writing options can be a profitable trading strategy, but it depends upon how you structure the trades. If you write an option without structuring it properly, then you’ll reduce the chances…
What Are Long-Term Equity Anticipation Options? LEAP options are simply option contracts with expiration dates that are one year or longer in duration. Other than the length of the expiration date being 1 year plus, they are technically and functionally the same as other listed options. If you remember from our option trading 101 article,…
For stock traders that are new to options, one of the most common questions I get is: “Are options safer than trading stocks?” It’s important to note both stock trading and option trading have risks, and while many the risks in trading both of them are the same, some of the risks differ substantially. In…