Whether you are considering dabbling in day trading or looking for a longer-term investment if you want to start trading it will serve you well to carry out a little due diligence in advance. There are a number of markets that you could use and understanding how each one works and what they are all about is key.
In my previous article I shared some thoughts why I believe traders should start with paper trading before committing real capital. Not everyone would agree, but today I would like to share another article by a trader I respect very much. The original article was published here
The trigger to this article was a question posted on the forum: "why we should use bull credit put spread when you can just long call they both have limited loss both in long call you have unlimited profit why limited it with bull put spread?" You can read the discussion here.
The words above are powerful because they're approach-agnostic. It doesn't matter if you're an old-school pit trader who swigs grit instead of coffee before the opening bell, or a Gen Y technocrat who codes trend-detection algorithms. All traders live and die by The Four Words. If you consistently buy low and sell high, then you will be profitable.
Post Earnings IV crush is the fall in implied volatility after earnings is announced. Typically, earnings announcements cause the price of the stock to move more than normal. The move will have more effect on short dated expirations since the day of earnings large move has more weight than the rest of the days with normal moves.
In my previous article, I described a strategy of buying a long strangle a few days before earnings and selling them just before earnings. In this article, I will show why it might be not a good idea to keep those strangles through earnings.
Most cryptocurrency owners skipped a heartbeat when the bitcoin fell to 50% from its all-time high. According to experts, such nasty downturns are natural, and the crypto market may witness such downturns now and then.
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It is widely acknowledged that the price of the underlying directly impacts the premium of the option. Therefore, options are termed derivatives. Their current value is directly derived from movement of the underlying price. Is the opposite also true? Does movement of the option value affect the underlying price?
Iron Condor and Iron Butterfly are both very popular strategies. Both of them are usually used as non-directional strategies (although butterflied can be used as a directional trade as well). Both trades are vega negative and gamma negative, but there are also few important differences between those two strategies.
2021 marks our 10th year as a public trading service. It was our best year since inception. We closed 192 winners out of 270 trades (71.1% winning ratio).Our model portfolio produced 201.0% compounded gain on the whole account based on 10% allocation per trade.We had only one losing month in 2021.
2021 was another banner year for Anchor and Diversified Anchor, with both strategies beating the target indexes. Because SPY was the best performing of SPY, QQQ, IWM, and EFA, "Regular" Anchor outperformed Diversified because SPY was the best performing of the 4 indexes we use.
