As the stock market heads into the last trading week of the year, the historical performance figures actually favor the bulls slightly. Last week the market inched out a slightly gain on the YTD return numbers. Odd how all the trading for an entire year comes down to just this last week. If stocks have ...…
Too often I hear new traders talk about how they like to buy options that are cheap because they think it’s a good investment. I can understand where they are coming from because they relate option pricing to how stocks are priced. Cheap stocks are seen as a good investment because they can quickly rise ...…
I often have a hard time trying to explain how short selling stock works and more importantly, why we need it to keep the market alive. Now I understand completely the biggest hurdle that people have to overcome when we talk about short selling stock and it’s the ability to sell something you don’t own ...…
The similarities are growing by the day as I compare the historical market top indicators for the 2008 market top and the current volatility. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know that I’ve highlighted this comparison numerous times before and I’ll keep pointing it out until it doesn’t work. Watch this ...…
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Even a monkey can buy/sell an option, catch the market at just the right time, and watch the money roll in. But we all know that these trades are only in our sweet trading dreams. The reality is that positions will go against us and you must learn how to adjust option trades and become ...…
November trading again was very active with adjustments but profitable here at Option Alpha. For the stock market, if it hadn’t been for the 4% move on the 29th it would have been a very red month. Needless to say, I tried to stay conservative all month and took risk off when necessary which did ...…
I’ve written a lot of really good content on technical analysis over the past couple of years, and I figured it was time to put it all the best content into one place, so that anyone who was starting out trading would have a simple beginner’s guide. The goal is that you would be able ...…
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