Why Rolling Trading Profits into Investments is Key
It's easy to get caught up in the thrill of making profits and growing your account balance. However, there comes a point where trading a...
Understanding Options Trading 101
Options have now become a mainstream product. Once used mainly for hedging, the introduction of options contracts on retail trading...
Reducing the Temptation to Overtrade
As traders, we've all been there - staring at our charts, watching as prices fluctuate, and feeling an overwhelming urge to jump into a...
How Iceberg Orders Work
We hear traders talking about icebergs a lot, but what do these orders do and how do they work? What are Iceberg Orders? An iceberg order...
Dealing with Wash Sale Tax Restrictions
As traders, we're always on the lookout for ways to optimize our trading strategies and minimize taxes. One often-overlooked aspect of...
The Power of Backtesting Your Trading Strategy
Most traders can appreciate that trading strategies are constantly evolving to keep pace with shifting market conditions. One crucial...
Trading Against Your Benchmark: Measuring Performance
It's important to track our performance, particularly against the benchmark for what we're trading. Doing so is an important exercise in...
The Importance of Journaling Your Trades
Trading in financial markets can be a challenging endeavor that requires discipline, focus, and a continuous pursuit of knowledge. One...
Liquidity and Volatility: A Trader's Guide
Liquidity and volatility are two critical factors that traders must understand to navigate financial markets successfully. While...
The 1% Rule: How to Manage Risk in Swing Trades
The 1% rule is a key risk management strategy for swing traders, where a trader aims to limit each loss to 1% of their portfolio's value....
Swing Trading 101
The basics of swing trading and how to improve your odds of success.
How Market Makers Hedge SPX Options Exposure in Futures
SPX options trade about $1.2 trillion in notional daily, with about 75% of that expiring in a week or less. In comparison, US equity...
Risk Management is the Key to Survival as a Trader
Traders live and die by their risk management strategy. Those who do not manage their risk, do not last very long in markets. Worse yet,...
Measuring Volatility in Trading: Why & How
One of the most important lessons I've learned as a trader is that understanding and measuring volatility is crucial to success. My own...
Trading Bollinger Band Squeeze and Breakout Setups
The Bollinger Band Squeeze and Breakout is a momentum-driven strategy that's worth studying, particularly for its ability to identify...
Trading the Options Wheel Strategy
The Options Wheel strategy, also known as the Triple Income Strategy or the Sell-Put-Sell-Call strategy, is an approach in options...
Technical Analysis with the Stochastic Oscillator
The Stochastic Oscillator, a powerful tool in technical analysis, was developed by George C. Lane in the late 1950s. It's designed to...
Understanding Donchian Channels
Donchian Channels, developed by Richard Donchian in the 1950s, are a useful technical analysis tool used in trading to identify market...
Using the MACD Indicator for Technical Analysis
The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is a widely recognized technical analysis tool used in trading to identify potential...
Understanding the Ichimoku Cloud
The Ichimoku Cloud, also known as Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, is a versatile technical analysis tool that has gained significant attention in...
Managing Risk through Stops and Position Sizing
Stop orders, commonly known as stop-loss orders, are instructions to buy or sell a security when its price reaches a specific level or...
The Basics of Backtesting
Backtesting is a critical process in the development and evaluation of trading strategies. It involves simulating a trading strategy...
The Art of Short Selling
Short selling is one of the most challenging strategies in the market because, as we all know, the path of least resistance for the...
Managing Risk through Intense Emotions
We've all been there before. A trade gets the best of our emotions. We make an impulsive decision, and then we come to almost instantly...
How Trading Actually Works: Starting the Right Way
Trading is often romanticized as a quick pathway to financial freedom, yet the reality is far more sobering. Everyone ends up paying a...
5 Things Every New Trader Should Do (That Nobody Likes to Talk About)
If you’re new to trading, you’re probably feeling a lot of excitement. The prospect of making our own way in the markets can have a...
Live Event Replay: "When Do I Take Profits?"
Big thanks to everyone that participated in today's Live Event! Our topic this week was "When Do I Take Profits" and we had some great...
A new wrinkle in the SPX 0DTE saga
We've recently experienced some interesting changes in the 0DTE trading dynamics within SPX that warrant attention. Short-dated options...
Unlocking the potential of volume profile
Traders use various tools and techniques to gain an edge. One such powerful tool is Volume Profile, a charting technique that reveals the...