Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Bucc’s Put Credit Spread (Part 1)

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Preface from Tim: Beloved Sloper Buccaneer was kind enough to answer my “call for content” during my most desperate hour (that is, since I’m traveling soon) and submitted a huge post which I’ve broken into several parts, not just because it’s so danged big, but also to stretch out the content for my own purposes. Thank you, Bucc!

An unconventional methodology of trading that uses Put Credit Spread option strategy (or Bull Put Spread aka Short Put Vertical) to profit from Volatility and Time Decay of SPX (S&P 500 Cash Index) underlying.

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Moving Above Averages

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Everywhere I look, folks are talking about how the S&P is at its 200-day moving average again. I’m not sure what they’re talking about. To my eyes, it crossed over that a long time ago. I do think it is worthwhile to observe what the 50/100/200 day exponential moving averages are doing with the big indexes, however. I have deliberately hidden the price bars, since they are just noise for our purposes.

As usual, click on any chart for a big version. You’ll note there have been no bullish crossovers yet. None.

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