If only trading was as simple as buying support and selling resistance. Daily support and resistance levels can provide traders with potential entry and exit points. The real question then becomes, how can someone calculate where to find support and resistance? The incredible…
John Carter, from Austin Texas is primarily an options trader, who’s been trading for about 25 years. He thinks of himself as an aggressive trader. In fact, his usual holding time is a couple of days for any given trade….
Corporate profits, including quarterly earnings, are regularly released for eager market watchers. The eagerly anticipated new season starts in mid-April. Usually, the information is priced in with analyst consensus numbers, with the over/under level to follow. Earnings and revenue numbers above…
Imagine getting paid every three months for 25 years straight. Not a single missed payment just from owning a stock. How is this possible? I wish I had a super secret investment to tell you about, but it’s simply dividends….
One of the primary drivers of an option’s value is implied volatility, or IV. Just as with a stock, the goal might be to buy low and sell high, as it’s usually with options. But that’s not always the case. Buying…
Mikael Syding is our first guest from Sweden! He’s a value investor who was in the hedge fund business for 15 years. In 2009, he was awarded European hedge fund manager of the decade before he retired. Mikael shares his…
A so-called smart money indicator can be a tip off to what side of the market insiders are positioning. Market action for options can be used to predict future market direction. Put options are used to hedge or speculate on downward…
While charts are extremely useful for identifying market trends and possible levels of support and resistance, they do have their limitations. Perhaps the biggest limitation of a traditional chart is the fact that it doesn’t depict volume, but rather just prices…
