In our SMBU Daily Video, Seth Freudberg discusses how market volatility can pay you. Everyone knows that the market has been selling off hard since the turn of the year. Many traders of market neutral options strategies are struggling in this environment However, initiating trades in this environment historically provides the trader with an edge. This video discusses one of … Read More
Heightened Volatility is a Double-Edged Sword
Volatility (both real and implied) has been stepping higher. While not at extreme levels, the S&P 500 Volatility Index ($VIX) is at a precarious point. Volatility is one of the more reliable market segments for a mean reversion bias. Most of the time, the VIX lives somewhere between 10 and 30. However, when it gets above 30, the index can … Read More
Building a Once Per Month Trade Plan
In our SMBU Daily Video, Andrew shows you how a simple, once per month, trade plan on the SPX could have generated a 43% annual return over the past 8 years (when the market averaged less than 5%) Andrew discusses the importance of finding the key (and simple) elements that provide edge. He shows you how to systematically eliminate the complexity that may … Read More
Which Options Strategies Is SMB Invested Into?
A few years ago, we partnered with a hedge fund, The Kershner Trading Group, to expand our resources and capital for trading. At about the same time, the partners were noticing that John Locke’s options strategies had been showing great results for several years. The natural next step for SMB was to connect these great strategies (and great traders) with the capital … Read More
The caring makes all the difference in trading
Trader A is an experienced trader learning futures on a new platform above, as he shared with me with this screenshot. Trader A is up over 2k in 2 hours of futures trading. What he cares about makes all the difference. Here is what Trader A said about his start: The elite trader is proud of learning a new platform. … Read More
TICK TICK TICK tools at this trader dinner
Last night our trading desk grabbed some Mexican and beers with our top traders for dinner. Generally we trade stocks with a news catalyst (we say Stocks In Play), but recently we have been focusing on market trades. SPY, UVXY, DWTI, OIH, SCO are products of interest. Many would assume these traders would sit around predicting the bottom in oil, … Read More
Don’t call it a comeback
One of our best traders was down near 18k and my partner slacked: (trader name deleted) may be on tilt. I checked in on this trader with a chat to see how he was and if he was on tilt. He wasn’t happy, but he analyzed he was mostly just early in a trade. He was waiting for a bounce … Read More
Trading The Current Market Volatility
When market volatility picks up short term traders shift their trading style. This short video gives some pointers on how we can more effectively navigate this type of trading environment. Get our daily video sent to your inbox each day. no relevant positions