Options Trading Archives

Nov 24, 2023 | Nov 24, 2023 Business Administration

How to Connect Excel with Thinkorswim

How do you connect Schwab's Thinkorswim (TOS) desktop trading platform with your Excel spreadsheet? How about how to use the Thinkorswim RTD commands to live stream data into your Excel Watch List? Even better, how about downloading my Excel Options..

Feb 24, 2023 | Feb 24, 2023 All Posts

Index of S&P 500 Companies Trading Above Their 200-Day SMA

This month's Trading Journal commentary will review a new chartable index - tracking the number of S&P 500 companies trading above their 200-Day Simple Moving Average (SMA). Below I charted the S&P over the past 20 years and annotated some..

Exit Strategy - Vertical Bull Put Credit Spread

Jan 28, 2023 | Jan 27, 2023 All Posts

Exit Strategy – Rolling Winning Vertical Bull Put Credit Spreads

This month, I want to revisit my Vertical Bull Put Credit Spreads’ Exit Strategy - particularly when to exit a winning position. I want to take my painful experience of last year and craft a new strategy a bit more..

Dec 30, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 All Posts

Selling Vertical Credit Spreads for Income – 2022’s Year-End Results

The downturn in the 2022 markets began on cue – the first week in January. And by the end of that first month, I was already falling down the “Correction” rabbit hole. I am ending this year with a frustrating..

Dec 30, 2022 | Nov 25, 2022 Essential Tips for Options Trading

Budget, Goals, and New Rules for 2023 Vertical Spreads

After 2022, Painful Experience will have to be approbation enough. But with a little prestidigitation, this month's journal entry intends to define my Budget, Goals, Mission Statement, and new Entry/Exit rules for 2023 - Zimzalabim! Table of Content Commentary -..

Oct 31, 2022 | Oct 30, 2022 All Posts

Hunt for Red November

Economically, we are a Socialistically Regulated Capitalistic Economy - and we have been since the 1800s. The 14th Amendment, passed in 1868, set the stage for using Federal Regulations to implement Socialistic reforms. And, every two years, the legal citizens..

Oct 6, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 All Posts

Selling Vertical Spreads – The Kenny Rogers Strategy

Know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em – and never count your money before the trade is done. The Kenny Roger's Strategy for selling Vertical Spreads gives me some cues to reading the room and avoid being..

Vertical Spread Assignments - Good Bad Ugly

Jan 19, 2023 | Aug 26, 2022 All Posts

Vertical Spread Assignments – The Good The Bad and the Ugly

At what point do I need to sell an ITM Spread early for a loss or just let the Option be assigned? This month's Trade Journal will revisit the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Options Assignments and what..

Oct 22, 2021 | Oct 22, 2021 Trade Trudging

Wandering Week Of Trade Trudging

"With every sun comes a new day. A new beginning. A hope that things will be better today than they were yesterday." -Eep. So this week I will just Trade Trudge my way through. - Damocles Table of Content Commentary..

Oct 15, 2021 | Oct 15, 2021 Geopolitics Affecting My Positions

Stock Market Gremlins

Stock Market Gremlins: I anticipate the markets will struggle to stay positive this holiday season as there are too many Gremlins causing malevolent mischief for the Marketeers. - Damocles Table of Content Commentary - Stock Market GremlinsThis Week's Market Sentiment..