One trader on our desk offers a best practice to emulate. This trader had been gross negative 3/4 past months prior to June. He is a hard worker, focused on the markets, disciplined and well-trained. He is one of the guys who can make it. Yet, while I wouldn’t say it was a large deal that he was not yet … Read More
Multiple Strategies – Automated Opportunities
Earlier this week we looked at SUNE which was setting up for a long. Now we’ve got the hourly rejoining the Daily/Weekly and it’s time to trail the position for as long as it wants to run. WMT and SPWR were also trades that showed up on the TEA Radar that have been trading nicely – often defying the broad … Read More
Properly Setting Your Trading Goals to Lower Stress
As traders we often set some sort of performance “goals”. We might say something like “My goal is to make $5000 per month trading”. There are problems with that goal, the biggest problem being that we don’t actually have control over how much money we make in any given trade. We might have a lot of influence on how much … Read More
Options Trading for Income with John Locke for June 16, 2014
Risk Disclosure No relevant positions
Trading Education: Mastering Gap Trading Methodology
On June 4th we posted a pre-market video in which I discussed a potential “gap fill” trade in TIBX. When a stock gaps outside of the prior day’s range you have three options. Play it for a continuation in the direction of the gap, play it to fill some or all of the gap, or simply take a pass on trading it. I have … Read More
PnL as the Outdated Trading Stat
Will PnL be an outdated trading stat one day? Five years ago MLB pitchers were mostly defined by Wins and how many they had. Today this is seen as an outdated stat that does not tell you the real value of the pitcher. Sabermetrics has taught us there are more important measurements of a pitcher’s contribution like: percentage of ground … Read More
Your 30 Day Trading Challenge
The TED2011 video below with Matt Cutts of Google ($GOOG) challenges you to try something new for 30 days. We can apply this to our trading. What something new can you do each day for the next 30 days to improve your trading? Some ideas: 1) Spend 30 minutes each day building and refining custom filters of your best setups 2) Spend … Read More
Options Trading for Income with John Locke for June 8, 2014
Weekly Update! M21 Webinar Replay! No relevant positions Risk disclaimer John Locke – www.lockeinyoursuccess.com