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If you’re worried, scared, uncertain, unhappy, on tilt — or all of the above, depending on the hour — it’s ok to do nothing. Cash is a position. Cash is comfort. Cash is control. Cash is Safety. It can be very tempting to go in and try to sell all...
So far in the early stages of this market correction (dare I say Bear Market? Too Soon?), I’ve been aggressively deploying Bear Call Spreads to attack bearish trading opportunities. Bear Call Spreads are a version of a vertical spread that consist of a short call at or slightly out-of-the-money and...
Happy Thanksgiving! During our family’s feast this year I’ll be reflecting on my gratitude to each and every one of our subscribers, and to my team here at All Star Charts. I could not ask for a more engaged audience and a more top-notch group of analysts to work with....
Until stock markets sound the “all clear” signal and we can get back to our regularly scheduled bull market, we have to operate with a different set of rules in order to protect our capital — both money and mind. Corrective or Bear Markets require a different set of tools....
Sticking with a theme we’ve been discussing with All Star Options subscribers for the past month or so, we expect to continue keeping things simple around here until the market tells us it’s time to change. One way we’ve been keeping things simple is to be buyers of straight long call...
Stocks are still near all-time highs, volatilities are once again compressed, earnings season is behind us, and some bullish runs in individual names are looking extended. Coming out of Labor Day Weekend, the game plan should be to keep it simple until things change. I'm often asked how I choose...
In options trading, risk management starts with defined risk and ends with position sizing. “Stop Losses” — if used at all — center around price action of the underlying and give zero weight to the value of the option(s) itself. As an options trader, nothing makes me cringe more than...
This spring I joined my good friend JC Parets at All Star Charts to help him provide added value to his trading ideas for his research clients. Together, we launched All Star Options which aims to offer actionable plans utilizing options to take advantage of trade ideas suggested by the...
Options are a leveraged instrument, and if you're not careful, it's easy to find yourself exposed to more risk than what you're comfortable with. A subscriber to All Star Options pinged me this week with some questions and I thought our discussion might be fruitful to everyone... Subscriber: The idea...
I was confused too. But no, $DQ is not America’s favorite destination for shakes, malts, and blizzards. But it is sexy in it’s own way — it’s an energy company named Daqo New Energy in one of the hottest sectors we think will be leading stocks higher this year —...
I received this email from a reader this weekend: Reading that post of your friend, my question is: I am a small trader -- really small. I have tried Options rooms before but to no success. They either have you buying so many options of companies you're bound to win...
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Sean McLaughlin and I’ve been involved in financial markets as a Trader, Exchange Member, blogger, in building social communities, in podcasting, in training, and in sales for 20 years. Some of you may already know me or have engaged with me...
I'm going to disappoint the options eggheads with my opinions here, because I'm going on gut feel. I haven't done any exhaustive research. I haven't done any volatility skew analysis or 3D modeling. I haven't reviewed seasonality patterns, or dug deep into open interest imbalances. No, I haven't done any...
[There is an update to this story at the bottom of the post, skip ahead if you're already read the first part] I caught up with a trading friend of mine in Denver this afternoon to chat about what we're seeing in the markets these days. After the usual swapping...
Just because a stock or an index is choppy and moving sideways doesn’t mean we can’t participate in some profits. There’s opportunity in every situation, especially with options. In a recent research note sent out to his subscribers, my boy J.C. Parets (@allstarcharts) wrote this about the Nasdaq: In the Nasdaq Composite,...
I started trading stocks in 1998 during the great “internet bubble.” 4 years later, I got interested in trading futures, and 3 years after that I started trading options which I’ve been doing primarily ever since. I’m often asked why I trade options these days? And it’s usually obvious the...
[originally published on medium] I’ve been reviewing my journal entries so far this year since I made a strategic decision to shift my options trading in 2018 from short premium & short volatility to long premium & long gamma, and I thought this recent journal entry from January 9th delving into my thought process...
