This week Andrew Falde returns to the Options Tribe to discuss methods that he has developed to reduce drawdowns on options trades including his techniques for avoiding whipsaw losses and his rationale for varying the size, width, and time based on current market conditions.
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A Long Trade in Oil
In this video I discuss a recent swing trade in oil. One thing I should have mentioned in the video is that if you want to intra-day trade oil futures is the way to go. Because of the global nature of this commodity many of its cleanest moves happen outside of US stock trading hours. Steven Spencer is the co-founder of … Read More
Here is how you win as a trader
Below is wonderful video for you to watch to help build your inner coach from Brett Ledbetter. Take 15 minutes and watch it this weekend. It will give you many ideas to improve as a trader. Now the subject matter in this video is sports performance. Sports after all is a performance game. Trading is also a performance game. … Read More
Don’t Trade Options Before 10AM
In this video Seth Freudberg discusses why you shouldn’t trade options before 10AM. You will see what can happen the first 30 minutes of trading. Seth uses an example of May 20th $RUT Index Put and shows you how the price changes based on time of the day. Enjoy the video. * no relevant positions
Be More Confident
In this video Seth Freudberd describes why traders filled with self-doubt will never be successful. Until a trader finds those strategies that he or she is comfortable implementing on a consistent basis, a trader will have a very hard time being successful. Successful traders are not bothered by losses and those losses do not shake the trader’s confidence in his … Read More
Podcast: How to find your trading edge
Above is a podcast for which I was interviewed on generating trading edge and below are it’s details from the podcaster. Episode 34 of the Desire To Trade Podcast features Mike Bellafiore, the co-founder of SMB Capital, a well-known proprietary trading firm based in New York, USA. Mike is also the author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive … Read More
It’s a shame I got stopped out
Here is an exchange on our trading desk in NYC today. Trader: She got stopped out of her position today. It’s a shame because the market has pulled back in a bit. Me: You have to trade with stops. If you were stopped out and then thereafter a stock/product/market traded in your direction too often trader laments their bad luck. … Read More