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Before I get started I want to encourage all of you interested in trading options to sign-up for my free weekly newsletter. Free Weekly Newsletter on All Things Options.
You will find educational topics on all things options, options research, options trade ideas, weekly indicators and more each week. I’ve been on Slope for a long, long time and would love your all of your support. Thanks so much. Kindest, Andy.
(more…)Before I get started I want to encourage all of you interested in trading options to sign-up for my free weekly newsletter. Free Weekly Newsletter on All Things Options.
You will find educational topics on all things options, options research, options trade ideas, weekly indicators and more each week. I’ve been on Slope for a long, long time and would love your all of your support. Thanks so much. Kindest, Andy.
On February 23rd, I posted a bear call spread on the S&P 500 (SPY). At the time SPY was trading for 429.57. Now SPY is trading under 422, and our bear call spread is worth far-less than half of our original premium. As a result, our profit target was met.
(more…)Before I get started I want to encourage all of you interested in trading options to sign-up for my free weekly newsletter. No, I’m not going to send you more than the one email a week and no, I’m not running a service. I’m a trader. This is completely free from all marketing. You will find educational topics on all things options, options research, options trade ideas, weekly indicators and more each week. I’ve been on Slope for a long, long time and would love your all of your support. Thanks so much. Kindest, Andy.
(more…)Traders leave money on the table. It comes with the territory. Sometimes the amount they leave on the table dwarfs whatever they were able to capture. This surely applies to me. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve had a lot of great ideas in recent months, and as I stand here now, I am aggressively short, having closed almost no positions (on the contrary, I’ve added).
Before I get to the regret I present to you my top percentage gainers from my existing bearish positions; these are all put options, and I presently have a hodgepodge of them with an average expiration date 104 days in the future. In other words, they’ve got lots of time to get even more profitable.
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