One of my favorite options spread trades is the Bearish Butterfly. I developed this trade a number of years ago in recognition of the fact that no matter how much the market may rally, it will eventually experience pullbacks. So an options spread trade, developed to take advantage of these periodic pullbacks should work in most market scenarios. In the … Read More
Where is my arc?
Guest Post from SMB Blog Reader Yaniv Hamo One of my favorite thinking exercises is about what it means to be living as opposed to merely exist. The essence of what separates the living from the grey masses. Working 9‐5, family and kids, watching TV and going on trips – does not make the cut. That’s what the masses are doing. … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 5pm EDT: Jim Bittman on Credit Spreads
Tuesday November 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Today at 5pm EDT: Earnings Plays
Today at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of options trading. This … Read More
Sometimes It Pays To Be Boring
What if I told you it was possible to be up over 30% year to date trading just QQQ about once every other day. Sound boring? And the only thing you had to do was to turn on your computer—well, not the only thing—and that you would have to have a thoroughly tested trading system first. And if you did, … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 5pm EDT: Earnings Plays
Tuesday October 25, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of … Read More
In Play Snapshot at the Close
This is an end of day snap shot of the SMB Radar In Play list. This is the most important function of the scanner. The Radar uses a number of proprietary algorithms on a pre-screened universe of stocks and processes every tick in search of finding stocks that are In Play. These stocks have unusually high order flow that indicates … Read More
I Cannot Hit My Losers
Dear Bella, I have been a fan of the work you all do here on the SMB Blog, bringing interesting and informative trading thoughts and ideas to us. You occasionally provide responses to readers’ questions so perhaps you’ll do the same for me. After a few years of part-time study and now seven months of full-time attention, I have reached … Read More