Buying a stock at the perfect time is the holy grail of trading. Traders will spend ungodly amounts of money on tools, newsletters, and gurus just to be in the right stock at the right time. At the end of…
Vertical options spreads are very powerful trading tools if used correctly. There’s a total of four different vertical spreads and each one has its own unique purpose. The four different spreads can be divided into two different categories, debit spreads and credit…
Have you ever looked a chart on your favorite stock or commodity and noticed a space between yesterday’s closing price and the next day’s open price? These spaces in the charts are called gaps. They happen frequently and if you know what…
Options Madman Anand “Lucci” Sanghvi In this 168th episode of the legendary Chat With Traders podcast, Aaron Fifield sits down with none other than options madman and trader of 10+ years, Anand “Lucci” Sanghvi. Believe it or not… Lucci was…
Often times when traders first begin trading options, they have a difficult time deciding whether or not they should be buying options or selling them instead. With stocks, you are limited to buying and selling shares… But with options, you…
The term investing has a certain tone of seriousness and long term financial planning in the minds of most people. People invest for retirement, to send a child to college, or to save up to buy a home. The psychology of…
Today we are going to take a look at December Natural Gas What we saw yesterday was a face-peeling move to the upside. The market had its largest gain in nearly 14 years with an 18% gain due to an…
Open Interest Is a Valuable Tool for Options Buyers & Sellers When you examine an options chain there will be a column that’s titled open interest and it can be a very useful tool for options traders. The open interest shows…
Day trading sounds pretty glamorous. Wake up, place a few trades, earn some money and go about the rest of your day doing what you want to be doing. However, have you ever wondered if that was too good to…
How should you ‘trade’ through and position your portfolio for the US mid-term elections? It is was a mid-term election just last week and I wanted to go through a bit of a risk management today to go over how…