Rolling Options

TheoTraders don't trade with hopium. TheoTraders will always give themselves the gift of time for a trade to work out. When a trade is on the dance floor with only a few days remaining until expiration a TheoTrader will never roll the dice. A TheoTrader will roll an option several weeks out at a credit…

Intraday Trading

Intraday Trading When the market makes no sense it's time for some intraday trading. Today was a day all my intraday trading was "gold, Jerry, gold!" No, I wasn't trading gold, but everything else. I caught nearly a full point move in ZB bonds futures. Got some great action oil futures. I was intraday trading…

Stock Market Volatility

Stock Market Volatility Stock market volatility returns today with a broad based sell off. TheoTraders were well positioned for today's stock market volatility. When volatility spikes there is no time to position yourself. You need to be positioned in advance. Here's what I'm looking for tomorrow to tell if the stock market volatility will continue…

Liquidity Risk

Liquidity Risk Liquidity risk was on the table today as the stock market saw its lowest volume day since the week between Christmas and New Years Eve last year. There were very few stocks trading enough volume today to even look at. NFLX and FB were the notable exceptions today barely. This was a day…

Low Volume Pullback

Low Volume Pullback A low volume pullback in today's stock market led lower by the energy sector. With the short week and a Thursday expiration let's review some of our current positions. Here's what we expect for tomorrow before the market takes a long weekend. Is today's pull back the start of something more?

Volatility is Your Friend

Volatility is Your Friend Volatility is your friend and it's back! Today's market saw more than a 40 point move in the SPX and 100 point move in the NDX from high to low intraday. This sets up some great trading opportunities for us. Today I was able to intraday date FB and QQQ short.…

Massive Market Divergence

Massive Market Divergence Massive market divergence in today's market action. We saw the FANG stocks - FB, AMZN, NFLX, and GOOGL get clobbered while the rest of the market was relatively stable. Keep in mind these are the 4 stocks that led the market higher. If these stocks aren't leading the way which stocks are…

Stock Rally Over

Stock Rally Over Is the stock rally over? After a 3 day rally stocks pulled back today. The Nasdaq COMP saw the biggest pullback. The Nasdaq was led lower by aapl, amzn, fb, googl, and nflx. At one time these stocks were leading the Nasdaq higher and now they are leading the Nasdaq lower. Also,…

Sell Rallies

Sell Rallies Sell Rallies continues to be the theme of the stock market. This fragile market can not get a rally going. What kind of opportunities are in this type of market. Right now there are two types. One, there are several names that are showing strength in spite of the market sell off. These…

How to Trade Volatility

How to Trade Volatility Volatility was at an extreme this week with this markets dropping 7%. What should you expect next week? And, what should you be looking at? After 15 years in the brokerage industry I know that retail investors do the worst during periods of market volatility. In the midst of volatility everything…

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