Binary options have become more popular in recent years largely due to their simplicity and defined risk characteristics. It’s a financial instrument, specifically an option, that either expires in-the-money or out-of-the-money. It can’t do anything else. Essentially, you are placing…
The brokerage you choose to trade futures with can have an impact on your profitability, as well as your overall trading experience. A good broker should be able to help you with your strategy development, monitoring open positions, research and…
A dividend is a sum of money paid out to shareholders by a company typically on a regular basis from corporate profits or reserves. Dividends are a way of paying investors for providing capital to the company in the form…
If you’ve ever day traded stocks or futures, you probably understand the importance of using stop-loss orders. Intraday price action can be significantly affected by algorithmic trading programs and it seems as if these trading programs are designed solely to hunt…
The pros know that option trading is really about trading volatility more than anything else. While option values can also be influenced by market movements and time, successful options traders know the key to trading options is to buy relatively cheap or under…
The mid-morning pullback is a phenomena often seen in financial markets, where it may simply be a brief reversal or a slight pause in an upward momentum. For example, markets will often end up stronger and race higher before seemingly running…
Today I’m going to you one of my all-time favorite indicators to help you identify high probability trading opportunities in different market conditions. We’re going to hunt for short term pullbacks. One of my all-time favorite indicators is the RSI…
Instead of buying outright calls or puts, institutional traders might use a basic risk reversal, which is a mix of both calls and puts to structure a position. A basic risk reversal, however, has significantly more risk that simply buying…