I See Momentum Buying

BellaGeneral Comments2 Comments

I settled at my trading station wondering what to trade on this Open.  RHT? BBY? AMLN?  There had not yet been a price spike on the SMB Radar in health care yet but I would later ask what and where to buy for that sector.  BBY showed some consistent selling at 25 so I scalped that down to 24.60 on … Read More

Trading Equities versus Eminis

sspencerBruss Bowman, General Comments, Guest Blog, Traders Ask6 Comments

Eminis are futures contracts for various indexes, commodities and currencies. Eminis have their own trading personalities just as equities, and just as GOOG trades differently than WMT, each of the Emini contracts has their own trading personality profile. There is no *right* market to trade just as there is no one trading style that meets the needs of all traders … Read More

Is This Trader Complacent or Patient?

BellaGeneral Comments1 Comment

Bella, How do you distinguish between patience and complacency? Patience is what I call it when I’m riding a trend. Complacency is what I call it when price initially goes my way, but then retraces and eventually stops me out. This happens to me most in two cases. In these cases I feel as though more aggressively taking profits would … Read More

Playing the Quarterly’s on the SPX

Greg LoehrGeneral Comments, Options EducationLeave a Comment

This post is the first in a series that we will be publishing over the next month , tracking the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. With the end of the quarter fast approaching there are two thoughts in my mind: quarterly window-dressing and a potential slowdown in China. For the next week, … Read More

The April Bearish Butterfly Trade

Seth FreudbergGeneral Comments, Options Education, Seth Freudberg's BlogsLeave a Comment

This post is the first in a series that we will be publishing over the next several weeks, tracking the hypothetical performance of the April, 2012 expiration of the  bearish butterfly trade as it would have been handled according to our guidelines contained in SMB’s Bearish Butterfly Video Series. On Friday, February 24, we initiated the April bearish butterfly trade … Read More