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VIX is not Just for Kicks
One of the best ways to measure market volatility is the VIX index, which basically is an expression of the demand for puts and calls on the SPX 500 index. Some will define it other ...
Options Trading: Finding your Pace and Rhythm with FAST Moves
How do you handle it when you find yourself on the wrong side of the market? How do you deal with plunges and unexplained rises that put your positions at risk? Do you find yourself ...
10 Option Trading Resolutions for 2014
Yes, we are already well into the new year, but there is really never a right or wrong time to start making improvements in your personal or professional life. Want to make resolutions ...
Telling the Market What to Do Can Lead to Disappointment
I prefer to let the market do its thing and tell me how to proceed. Making wild guesses and speculating on what it should do is pointless and often is met with disappointment. Oh ...
Twitter the Stock, Twitter the Iconic Brand
The “welcome to the club” party for Twitter this year was nothing more than sensational. The hype (or, over-hype) of the company’s IPO as 2013 drew to a close was ...
How to Prepare for the New Year
Calendar markers are important reference points. Some evaluate their trades monthly, weekly or even daily using a journal. But, they do not define our actions rather they are a ...
Keep Swingin’
A good baseball player in a hitting slump never gives up, he keeps swinging. No matter how hard it is or how much the pressure mounts he must keep trying to make contact. There ...
Make the Time Commitment – Practice, Practice, Practice
Commitment doesn’t mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%. – Susan Jeffers
Anything ...
Act on What you See, Not What you Believe
Technical analysis is an art and a science. It is an art because we look at pictures and interpret what they represent – past action and activity around price and volume. ...
Scare Tactics
We’re in the ‘scariest’ month of the year — not only Halloween, but for markets as well – the month where crashes occur.
Much of the recent disappointment ...