After holding a couple of free live webcasts over the past month discussing earnings trades and adjustments, here’s yet another look at an “income” type of trade. This one popped up as a trade yesterday as the VIX starting pushing 15. But the reason for the move up in volatility becomes a two-edged sword.
Where is This Stock Going?
One of the truest things I’ve heard recently was “It’s SOOOO nice not having to pick which way the stock is going!” That came from a one-on-one coaching student of mine that had fallen into the trap of over-analyzing charts and looking for “that one right” indicator. Not having to pick a direction had taken a huge burden off her … Read More
Trades Getting Out of Hand?
Ever start out simple, with just one or two trades, and then end up with an entire mess of options? Congratulations! You’re now trading a “position”. Perhaps you’ve heard the term but aren’t sure what it means. You’re trading a “position” when you’ve gone beyond using just one strategy. Trading a position is typically going to be much different than … Read More
A Much Different Use of the Broken Wing
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing which track the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. For months now I’ve been blogging about hypothetical SPX broken wing butterflies that I’ve been identifying and managing in live markets. The returns have been positive, with only one losing trade out … Read More
Broken wing butterfly nearly maxes out
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing which track the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. Every now and then in trading, you hit a home run. You may not expect it and you certainly can’t count on it. But it definitely won’t happen unless you give yourself … Read More
Coming in to the final hour for the SPX ‘fly
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing which track the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. There’s only a little more than an hour left in the trading day and the expiration of the SPX weekly options, but there’s still plenty of action left in the hypothetical broken … Read More
Post-Election Effects: Unraveling the Broken Wing Butterfly Strategy
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing which track the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. For those that are watching this hypothetical SPX broken wing butterfly, you saw that even yesterday’s big sell off wasn’t enough to bring the trade even close to a loss exit. The … Read More
Taking Your Credit Early
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing which track the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. I promised to follow up to my earlier post tracking a hypothetical SPX weekly broken wing butterfly, so here it goes. Using the options that expire tomorrow the butterfly is long the 1380 … Read More