Using Filters for Options Trading

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In this video, Seth Freudberg discusses the considerations in trading options strategies using filters. Some traders like to use filters to find trading candidates for particular strategies. There are some dangers in using filters to set up options trades for strategies for unfamiliar ticker symbols.

SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Ed Tulauskas of Random Walk Trading: The Bionic Butterfly

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This week, Ed Tulauskas of Random Walk Trading discusses the Bionic Butterfly, a biased butterfly strategy that takes advantage of directional moves. Ed will look at the basic trade framework, explain the best times to utilize this approach, discuss the factors influencing the trade and cite some examples of the use of the strategy.

ONE Thing to Improve Your Trading

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We have built a new Reading the Tape course to help our trading community trade better. Imagine if this course helped you achieve just one of these: Reading the Tape can help you enter trades at better prices. Reading the Tape is a leading indicator that gets you into trades before the stock moves. Reading the Tape can help you find … Read More

SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Paul Forchione of Optionvue Systems, International: “Butterflies and Calendarized Butterflies”

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This week, options educator and strategist Paul Forchione returns to the Options Tribe to show how he uses OptionVue software to structure and analyze these positive theta spread positions in various futures markets. He will show how these positions behave in relation to market movement and changes in implied volatility by generating performance curves and discussing the Greeks.

Sometimes it’s your job to lose money

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In this video, Seth Freudberg discusses why it is disadvantageous for a trader to get into a mindset that he must win every trade at all costs. He must instead accept that the best trades have anticipated losing months in each year, no matter how well designed that strategy is.