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In Major League Baseball, the 40/40 Club is an exclusive group of players who are the only ones to have achieved both 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same season.

The first player to achieve this milestone was Jose Canseco in 1988 as a...

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While certainly not at panic levels, we've been seeing a persistent $VIX holding north of 20, and the last two days we saw it flirt with 25. This signals to me that there is still a bit of uneasiness remaining in the stock market, leftover from the...

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I have one trade that stands out head and shoulders above the rest as my number one F-up. I really screwed this one up.

Financially, it was my best trade of the year. Probably my best trade in several years…

But it still stands out as my...

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To quote Steve Strazza: "When commodity stocks go, they go!"

This pretty much sums up the talk we had this morning when coming up with today's trade idea.

We were looking across the strongest sectors and hunting for...

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No, not Santa. He already came and went.

JC came to Boulder yesterday (where I Iive) and we were able to get together to enjoy a late dinner. It was a great opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come and what we’ve already accomplished....

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I love when the team feels a little "frisky" and hunts for "speculative" ideas. There's nothing that gets the creative juices flowing more than getting outside the wheelhouse a bit, looking for new experiences.

This lead them down the path of...

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I’ve received a few questions from readers about playing bounces in some oversold stocks.

The most recent was Facebook, er… Meta (whatever).

An opportunistic trader hit me with this question:

Is anybody interested in...

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[10/19/23: updated stop to 155]

We're taking a Leap here.

The overwhelming majority of options trades we put on at All Star Options tend to be structured in a way to participate in moves that should...

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I was chatting with an All Star Options member this morning and he asked me a very insightful question:

“Sean, I’d be very interested in your thoughts on why you choose not to make a trade in certain setups?”

He went on to elaborate that...

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...And trading volumes are particularly good for the trading exchanges that make it all happen!

With the markets whipsawing back and forth to start the year and trading volumes rising all over the place, the exchanges that extract fees for...

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For anyone that joined me, JC, and Strazza on the Twitter Spaces this morning, you heard us scratching our heads on what to trade next.

In this sloppy tape, there just aren't any real compelling opportunities we can find worth getting...

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We're continuing the theme of monitoring relative strength in this tricky tape. The next leaders if/when a bull market resumes are revealing themselves now. Are you paying attention?

One of the names that is holding up relatively well recently...

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I joined JC and Strazza today during their daily Twitter Spaces brainstorm and we got to kicking around ideas of how we want to play this market.

When prompted, I voiced my opinion that anything we do in the options space right here should...

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There you go.

I wrote that headline to save you the trouble of turning on your TV or following your favorite fear mongerer online. You're welcome.

Unless you've been lost in the wilderness for the last two weeks (not a bad place to...

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While the US Stock Market has pulled back a bit this week, we've seen $VIX pop its head back up above 23 and print its highest levels in a month. And this isn't entirely surprising given that the highly watched Russell 2000 $IWM has been struggling to...

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The V-Bottom is back! (At least as of the time of this writing). What a bounce stocks have seen off Monday's nadir.

Have we stuck the landing and its back to new all-time highs for the broader indexes soon?

Time will tell. But the...

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On days and weeks like this, I love to look for opportunities to sell premium into the elevated implied volatilities we're seeing rising across the board. With $VIX back up above 20, you'd think there's been plenty to pick from.

Problem is, I...

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Well well well, what do we have here?

The first two days of this week completed a nearly text book Santa Claus rally. Then on Wednesday, it appears the Fed may have stolen his Sleigh and now his reindeer have no idea which way to steer!

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If this blog post was served up to you when you were searching for the latest scare porn on the omicron covid pandemic, I'm sorry to disappoint. But if you'd like to draw a correlation between the rising omicron cases and rising share prices...

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I'll spare you the suspense -- we're getting long Marathon Petroleum $MPC here.

The title of today's post is not a trite pun. We are indeed positioning for a bullish move, but it may take a little bit to develop the way we want it to.

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Well, we're on Day 1 of the Santa Rally and so far the fat man is delivering bigly!

Speaking of deliveries, it's likely your 2021 Holiday Season featured the services of our trade today.

Let's get right to it!

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