by Don Wellenreiter Every month nearly all options, both put and call options, expire worthless, meaning that the overwhelming majority of call and put buyers lose money. That must mean that simply reversing that concept and selling options should be highly...
by Jea Yu As I developed as a trader, making the right transition from consistent loser to consistent winner, I began to look for reasons why I should not be trading. I looked for red flags that told me my setup had less of a chance of working. This is the...
by Lee Gettess Price pattern is the single most important technical tool of which I make use of. Now, I’m not talking about the pennants, flags, cup and saucers, or Southern Ethiopian head and shoulders stuff that I find so subjective. I’m talking about...
by Peter McKenna Before becoming an event trader, I firmly believed that the buy-and-hold strategy was the best way to make money in stocks. As a reporter, I wrote countless stories that warned investors about the dangers of short-term investing. The...
by George Angell When is the reversal strategy most likely to succeed? When the market is likely to trend which is often in the first hour, shortly after the open, or the final hour just prior to the close. This is because the market rarely goes dead shortly after the...
by Kathy Lien The leveraged carry trade strategy is one of the favorite trading strategies of global macro hedge funds and investment banks. It is the quintessential global trade. In a nutshell, the carry trade strategy entails going long or buying a...
by Jon Najarian You can use spreads to play the short side of the market when you’re bearish on a stock, betting that the market will decline, or simply to protect your holdings, whether they are individual stocks or mutual funds. This strategy uses the put...
by Duane Davis To get an appreciation of what it is to trade using intraday charts, let’s take a look at a couple of examples using 60-Minute charts. The first chart below is of the EUR/USD. Let’s say that it’s 4:00 PM ET, and you decide that you’re going to trade...
by Russell Sands One of the most important principles we have in Turtle Trading is that of the Last Theoretical Trade, also known as the P/L Filter. This powerful concept helps to avoid trades that do not have a lot of expectation going for them. In the world of the...
by Keith Cotterill Since the beginning of time, our ancestors were driven by basic the needs of food, shelter, heating, and clothing. However, when our Neanderthal forebears first emerged on the grassy plains of what is now central Africa, they did not...