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Nov 24, 2021 | Jul 17, 2020 Essential Tips for Options Trading

Trading Spreads with Stop Loss – PT 3

This week I will conclude my review of using ThinkorSwim to set up a Conditional Trailing Stop Limit for my Vertical Spreads. Table of Content Commentary: Conditional Trailing-Stop LimitsThis Week's Market SentimentProfit and Loss StatementSchedule for this WeekThis Week's Trade..

Nov 1, 2020 | Jul 10, 2020 Essential Tips for Options Trading

Trading Spreads with Stop Loss – PT 2

Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries.Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worthand refuse to give it any more.- Dale Carnegie Commentary First question: Do Trailing Stop Limits really work? To answer this question, I have to..

Nov 1, 2020 | Jul 4, 2020 Essential Tips for Options Trading

Trading Spreads with Stop Loss – PT 1

Distracted by pleasure,Directed by pain. Commentary This week's commentary is the start of a multi-part series on learning Stop Losses with Ameritrade's Think or Swim trading platform. Because this is a new topic for me to explore, I figure..

Nov 1, 2020 | Jun 26, 2020 All Posts

Two Impediments to Options Trading

Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.- Dorothy Gale (Movie: Wizard of Oz.) Commentary In this week's very short commentary, I want to review the two most significant impediments to Options Trading; ignorance and greed...

Mar 4, 2021 | Jun 19, 2020 Geopolitics Affecting My Positions

Corporate’s COVID-Coup

There are two wolves who are always fighting.One is darkness and despair, the other is light and hope.The question is: Which wolf wins?Answer: THE ONE YOU FEED!- Casey Newton (Movie: Tomorrowland) Commentary Many geopolitical events have been queued up over..

Nov 1, 2020 | Jun 11, 2020 Geopolitics Affecting My Positions

Woke Options Trading

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Statue of Liberty Commentary The figurative term "Woke" is getting a rise in today's slang. According to Dictionary.com, it had its emergence in Black English at..

Nov 12, 2020 | Jun 5, 2020 Essential Tips for Options Trading

Investigating VIX Amplitude to Select Option Spreads Expiration Dates

French journalist: Inspector, do you know if the killer was a man or woman?Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Well of course I know that! What else is there?A kitten?Jacques Clouseau - (Movie: Pink Panther) Commentary In this week's commentary, I want to..

Nov 1, 2020 | May 29, 2020 All Posts

Trading Options Spreads in the New Normal

We are always coming into a New Normal.New Normals are nothing more thankeeping life weird!- Damocles Commentary How to trade Options Spreads in the New Normal? The term "New Normal" is an overused cliche that basically means I learned something..

What do the Marketeers (like Mouseketeers) know that the prominent economists don't?

Nov 1, 2020 | May 22, 2020 Geopolitics Affecting My Positions

The Economist v. The Marketeers

Money may not buy happiness,but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.- Françoise Sagan. Commentary The economy is projected to be severely crippled for the next several years, but the Stock Markets are surging at record recovery...

Nov 1, 2020 | May 15, 2020 All Posts

Programming Trade-Triggers for the Win

David: What is the primary goal?Joshua: You should know, Professor. You programmed me.David: Oh, c'mon. What is the primary goal?Joshua: To win the game.(Movie: WarGames) Commentary The COVID-Crash this past February stung pretty badly! I had 14 trades that all..