Tweaking Our Strategy During Market Volatility

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In our SMBU Daily Video, Seth Freudberg explains how SMB’s Options Trading Desk tweaked its portfolio of monthly trades to adjust to this market environment. Traders need to realize that the market has changed–2016 is much more volatile In these environments, tweaking your portfolio of trades is recommended for retail traders * no relevant positions

A Perfectly Ineffective Hedge

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In our SMBU Daily Video, Seth Freudberg explains a perfectly ineffective hedge. Many options traders buy puts in a panic thinking they will control downside risk in their trades We did a study on weekly options and found that they were incredibly ineffective at controlling downside risk over the last year In fact, traders would have made much more money SELLING … Read More