Hedging when the market is up is like buying an umbrella when it’s sunny out: you’ll be protected when it rains (Photo by Vivienne Gucwa).
(more…)Buying An Umbrella When It’s Sunny Out
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.
Using Options Market Sentiment To Complement Fundamental Analysis
Part of City Office REIT’s Mission City Campus Property In San Diego. Photo via Google Street View.
(more…)The Ides of OPEX (by Moneymiser21)
Ah mid-March. College basketball conference tournaments, and NCAA tourney dreams. (Note from Tim: I guess I didn’t really have to identify the author as someone besides myself. Anyway.)
And of course some high probability seasonality trade opportunities, both bearish and bullish as March monthly options expiration comes to an end.
One year ago, Slope nailed the Facebook and Google plunges before they happened (And boy did that FB plunge happen!).
And based on Thursday’s price action, the bears appear to be warming up the bandwagon once again.
(more…)SlopeRules Options Trades
Here are some trade options ideas for the recent SlopeRules Results I posted this weekend.
The Rule is very simple:
When the SMA 50 is greater than 100
and When the Williams %R crosses below -50, enter.
When the Williams %R crosses above -50, exit.
For SPY, there was an 89.7% win rate, with avg rate of 0.33% per trade. Currently 21% of SPY stocks fit these conditions.
Here are the first 30 actionable trades based on this, ranked on highest percent win rate (already shared on Social Trade).
(more…)Webinar This Thursday!
Just a reminder that this upcoming Thursday the 31st at 2 p.m. PST is the Trade Machine Pro Webinar. It’s free, and you can click here to sign up.
Watching Netflix
Webinar Signup
Slope has a very successful affiliate relationship with the folks behind TradeMachine Pro, and recently their CEO suggested a webinar specifically for Slopers. I’ve published one of their recent trade ideas below, but most importantly, please email me if you’d like to be notified of the online webinar they are going to put together (you don’t have to type any message; just click ‘Send’ since I just need your email address). Anyway, here’s their post:
Recently we wrote on The Exact Bearish Trigger in Nvidia. Today we look at the other side for Amazon.
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