In our SMBU Daily Video, Seth Freudberg discusses how to decide the best long strike to select when selling a credit spread with a directional viewpoint in mind. In this video, you will learn: Why the strike separation that yields the highest dollar credit is usually NOT the best long strike to select. Why you need to focus on return, not dollars … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Dave Stewart: The Caspian Sea Monster Options Strategy
Today, Dave Stewart presents, for the first time, his signature “Caspian Sea Monster Trade”. It should be a fascinating meeting and you won’t want to miss it! SMBU’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each Tuesday, SMBU hosts an options webinar — the Options … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar, Tuesday, October 14, 2014: Stefen Choy, Livevol: How Pro Options Traders Use Volatility To Select Credit Spreads
For the first time on OptionsTribe.com, Stefen Choy, the COO and co-founder of Livevol, presented on how professional options traders use implied volatility in relative time frames to select the ideal time to implement credit spreads on index options. Also, Seth Freudberg announced more news for OptionsTribe members, provided a more in depth overview of our OptionsTribe Trading Contest and mentioned some details … Read More
Taking Your Credit Early
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing which track the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. I promised to follow up to my earlier post tracking a hypothetical SPX weekly broken wing butterfly, so here it goes. Using the options that expire tomorrow the butterfly is long the 1380 … Read More
Think you can day-trade AAPL?
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing over the next month , tracking the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. If so, then this is where you can potentially make a killing with the hypothetical broken wing butterfly we’ve been tracking over the past week. The hypothetical fly … Read More