A Bullish Options Strategy With The Clock On Your Side
I want to discuss today an investment strategy combining stock and options that takes great advantage of time decay. It is absolutely a bullish...
Market Masters: Using Market Breadth for Portfolio Positioning
By Derek Hernquist   The Dow Jones Industrials are up 1% and you make an average of 2% each across your 10 longs. A week...
Market Masters: The Crude Realities of Trading Through a Losing Streak
By Jon Boorman    We all know the old maxim of running winners and cutting losers. It's been cited numerous times in many of the...
Question Everything: Challenging Your Market Opinions
Given the delicate context the broad market up-trend finds itself in, this morning marked one of those rare occasions in which I check the...
Market Masters: Investing in Trends As Easy As 1-2-3
Even Warren Buffet Needs Trends
To make significant gains over longer periods of time (weeks, months, years), any investment position must be in an uptrend. ...
Aphorisms of An Accidental Market Speculator – Part 1
Everyone's got a story behind how their interest, activity and even fascination with "the market" began. Some grow up in a multi-generational wealth management...
Options Trading Education: Spreading Time
Today I would like to discuss time. Time is a huge factor in making up the price of an option. Options are a decaying...
Sustainable Investing: Why It Matters Now
Sustainability is a buzz word that is now associated with everything from real estate development to diapers. I haven't checked, but it would probably...
Options Trading: Two by One or One by Two
Today I want to talk about the one by two ratio vertical spread, both long and short. Both are excellent options trading strategies although...
Market Masters: Analyzing Cloudy Markets with Ichimoku
Ever met someone you'd call "a real numbers guy"? I've come across a few.
Roughed-up card counters dumped headlong into Vegas casino kitchen dumpsters. A...