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Ignoring Liquidity is a Recipe for Option Trading Losses
“You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!” ~ “Hotel California”, The Eagles ~ One of the traps for budding options traders is to attempt to apply various strategies to any...
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Creating Portfolio Income Trading Naked Puts in XOM
As a new options trader, it is easy to get confused. When approaching a trade, the stock trader has a simple binary decision: get long by buying stock or get short by selling stock. The options trader...
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Using Short Strangles to Trade AAPL Options
My last missive dealt with a simple trading plan for XOM using the straightforward easily managed and easily understood strategy of selling naked puts and either allowing assignment of the stock and...
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Using a Triple Calendar Spread to Trade Google Earnings
One of the most useful characteristics of options is their ability to control risk and achieve a high probability of success when trading impending earnings announcements. Google will announce third...
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Google Earnings Trading Idea
We recently discussed the impending release of third quarter earnings for Google (GOOG), analyzed the expected move in light of then-current options pricing, discussed the expected behavior of the...
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Implied Volatility Crush in AAPL Can Lead to Profits
The recent massive sell off in AAPL stock has presented some interesting opportunities for low risk trades. For long time readers of this column, you may recognize that my portfolio usually contains an...
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Using a Put Butterfly to Trade Cummins Inc.
J.W Jones: www.OptionsTradingSignals.com Entomologists tell us that a group of butterflies can, at the choice of the writer, be termed a lek, a rabble, or a swarm. I was first struck today by the...
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Taking Advantage of Recent Lows in the Volatility Index
One of the newest option products to appear in our universe as an options trader is the option series designed to trade the volatility index (VIX). The VIX is a measurement of the implied volatility of...
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How to Trade Options Around Company Earnings
The hallmark of a professional option trader is the ability to use a wide variety of trade structures in order to exploit opportunities to profit from specific situations the market presents. One of...
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Subscribers Made $7294 Profit With Recent Options Trades
If you’ve been trading for a while and haven’t been making the consistent profits you expect and want, then consider option spreads. They are one of the most successful strategies which our options...
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The Anatomy of an XOM Earnings Trade
One of the most interesting aspects of options is the myriad opportunities presented for high probability trades for those who understand the details of option behavior. For example, I have recently...
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Gold vs. S&P 500 – Where is the Value?
This past week we received the final 4th Quarter GDP number which came in at 0.39%. The total 4th Quarter growth was terrible, plain and simple. Based on the performance in the equity markets that we...
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Where is the Larger Bubble: the S&P 500 Index or U.S. Treasuries?
Today we have a plethora of companies reporting earnings and are moving through the 1st Quarter earnings season at a rapid pace. Thus far, earnings have been far from exciting and have made the...
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Will Oil Futures Stop the Fed’s QE Program?
The sell-side analysts and economists are reminding retail investors that risk assets in the United States have been on quite a tear to the upside recently. A correction now lasts a matter of days, if...
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The Headline Data that Financial Media Ignored on Wednesday
Wednesday was a wild trading session where we saw the largest intraday selloff in the S&P 500 E-Mini futures that we have seen in some time. Intraday price action was driven largely by statements...
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Simple Options Generated $7,593 in Income Last Month!
Question is: Are You Making Consistent Options Returns? Are you ready for one of the best years yet for trading low risk option spreads? OptionsTradingSignals.com chief investment strategist JW Jones...
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While the Fed Parties, Gold & Oil Have Left the Building
Risk assets and financial markets around the world have been supported by central bank action for several years. Performing financial alchemy on a scale larger than has been seen in the history of...
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June 18th – 13% gains in 48 hours in TNA Naked Puts
The OTS trading strategy focuses on selling premium in situations where implied volatility is higher than its historical average, bases entries on probabilities of success around 1 standard deviation...
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During Recent Market Carnage, OTS Locked in 16.80%, 32.20%, & 41.49% Returns
As we move into Quarter end, many investors and traders suffered a sizable drawdown in mid to late June. However, members of OptionsTradingSignals.com closed 3 trades during the selling carnage for...
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An Option Trader’s View of New Highs in the S&P 500 Index
Every investor and novice trader is looking for a newsletter that exemplifies the holy grail of investment acumen. It would seem that so many newsletters promote their latest or greatest trade idea. If...
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