Former stand-up comedian turned questionable stockbroker – and now day trader – Kenny Glick is my guest this episode. You’ll get to hear a few wild stories about Kenny’s transition from comedy club stages to a super aggressive brokerage firm straight out…
Trading is more art than exact science. If a trading technique could beat the market consistently, the value would be immeasurable. Honestly, there is no one right way to trade…successful tactics may only work under certain market conditions. Discipline is…
Should you trade a cap-weighted or equal-weighted index ETF? What is a cap-weighted index ETF? In a capitalization-weighted index ETF the biggest companies receive the heaviest weightings. The S+P 500 is the most widely known and widely-used index. SPY is the…
You’re about to listen to a conversation with short-term futures trader, Ben (last name withheld for privacy reasons), also known as @BLB_Capital on Twitter. Ben used to run a construction company, but when an injury took him off his feet…
In my almost 60 years of trading, I’ve learned a few things that most every short-term trader needs to know. The biggest error short-term traders make is thinking they can trade every day the same way; essentially, that all trading…
A LEAP, or Long-Term Equity AnticiPation Security, is simply an option with a longer lifespan. Nothing more, nothing less. LEAPS are available on many securities and indexes, and like traditional options list both calls and puts. Given the fact that…
In this week’s episode, I spoke with fund manager, Dario Mofardin. With a finance degree in hand, Dario went straight into a market analyst position, followed by a trader position at a private global macro hedge fund in the…
The predictive power of technical indicators is sometimes questioned, especially considering the potential for fakeouts in leading indicators and the delayed power of lagging indicators. Whether technicals work for forecasting can be debated, but the market reaction to widely held…
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Yesterday we went Live on Facebook to have a Real Talk about Fixed Annuities with Mitch Fee of Kingsview. Our Facebook followers were astounded by Mitch’s strategic solution to the four major problems of the 2017 Retirement Crisis. If you missed it, you can…
Earnings season is a time of heightened uncertainty. This translates into higher options premiums. After the event, premiums return to more normal levels. In the chart below, the orange line, which tracks the history of implied volatility, shows us that…
