We’ve adjusted a position in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today: [Read more…]
Tilt Prevention
The concept of “Tilt” is often discussed when things have gone awry. It’s usually associated with poor risk management and sloppy trading that has led to larger-than-expected losses.
You can no doubt find endless stories of traders in every timeframe who have gone on tilt and proceeded to wreck their month, their capital, and sometimes even their careers.
We’ve all experienced some degree of this in our own trading. It comes with the territory. It takes a rare human who possesses the mental fortitude to stay completely focused no matter what’s happening to their portfolio. Those people are out there – but they’re hard to find.
The downsides of going on tilt when our trades or strategies aren’t working out are fairly obvious.
But we rarely talk about when we go on tilt with a winning position! [Read more…]
[Options] Stapled to These Levels
Well, that was fun!
Yesterday we were treated to the latest interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve and a speech and Q&A with Fed Chairman Powell that apparently wasn’t well received by the market as stocks slid furiously into the closing bell and continued the selloff into this morning.
Where we go from here is anyone’s guess. Still, I’d like to take the opportunity to continue taking advantage of consistently elevated options premiums and put on a delta-neutral credit spread in an area of the market where I think some sideways rangebound action may be setting up into the end of the year.
[Options P2P] New Position: GDX
The next new position in our Paid-to-Play portfolio is: [Read more…]
[Options P2P] Trade Alert: Closed SMH Position for Profit.
We had a resting GTC order filled at our profit target in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today: [Read more…]
[Options P2P] Trade Alert: Closed XHB Position
We had a resting GTC order filled at our profit target in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today: [Read more…]
[Options P2P] New Position: ITB
The next new position in our Paid-to-Play portfolio is: [Read more…]
[Options P2P] Trade Alert: Closed XBI at Profit Target
We had a resting GTC order filled at our profit target in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today: [Read more…]
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