Expiration Friday Pinning Trades in GOOG and AAPL

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The great thing about options is that they can be played in so many different interesting and creative ways. A case in point:  There is a cult of options traders who focus on the last two days of the monthly options expiration cycle.  These traders focus, separately, on  expiration Thursday trades and expiration Friday “pinning” trades.  The premise for each … Read More

SMB Radar Update for June 17, 2011

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The Strong/Weak Today column ranks stocks based on the price change relative to the stock’s opening price. These stocks tend to have strong/weak opening drives and continuation moves. The idea here is to find opportunity in the strongest/weakest stocks in the market. When looking through the column, we always take note at how In Play the stock is to gauge … Read More

SMB Radar Update for June 14, 2011

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These are today’s top stocks on the In Play column on the SMB Radar. This is the most important function of the scanner. The Radar uses a number of proprietary algorithms on a prescreened 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 heavy … Read More

One Good Trade Excerpts: Power Hour Stock Insights

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Excerpts by Flurin Coretti from One Good Trade. ❧Trading is about skill development and discipline. Unfortunately, too many people think trading is just about making predictions, loading up, and being “the man” by holding stocks. ❧Being a consistently profitable trader is about doing the thousand little things every day—like proper preparation—that impact your P/L. ❧A great trader is an elite … Read More