This week, Jaroslav Vaclavik, Dave Heinzen and Alan Wood, all leaders in our Options Tribe Trading Contest will be providing us an overview of their personal trading styles which have resulted in their spots on the leaderboard of our trading contest.
Trade Review–Shorting A Stock After Earnings $RHT
In this video I walk you through my thought process in developing a plan to short Red Hat following its earnings report. Each morning we develop trading plans for Stocks In Play. For more info sign up for a free trial which includes all of our trading tools and live position updates. Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital … Read More
Stay Within the Theme of the Trade
Every options strategy has a “theme”–the conditions under which it does poorly and the conditions under which it is successful. In this video, Seth Freudberg discusses the problem of abandoning the theme of a trade in the midst of the trade. A recent bearish butterfly trade is offered as a case in point.
Trades We Make When Volatility Spikes
In this video Steven Spencer discusses trading during volatile periods.
Volatility Has Returned, But for How Long?
Here’s something that you can learn from and potentially add to your trading to increase your chances of being profitable every month. SMB added an options trading desk a few years ago. Over that time we have seen a very valuable pattern develop. When directional equities and futures traders are struggling with low volatility, the options desk is usually doing … Read More
Trade Options Like an Atom Bomb is About to Go Off in Times Square
In this video Seth Freudberg discusses why it’s so important to have a contingency plan for your trading. Traders never know when something unexpected will happen. Professional Traders always have a contingency plan for unexpected market events. This video reviews some of the viable contingency plans that are used by professional options traders.
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Bruno Voisin: The Rhino Options Trading Strategy
This week, Bruno Voisin makes his debut appearance on the Options Tribe presenting how he trades the popular Rhino options trading strategy.
Traders ask: How do I get the most out of my options back testing exercises?
An active member of SMBU’s Options Tribe Community submitted the following question to me recently: Dear Seth, Hope this email finds you well I’m planning another set of back tests for my M3 style of options trading (yeah another one…… together with the Bearish Butterfly I think it’s now my fourth pass at this, but who’s counting when I’m having … Read More