Every so often I like to put on some delta neutral credit spreads to balance out the portfolio a bit. It's all about diversifying the books so that I'm not solely reliant on direction or volatility. We've got positions on currently that will benefit from big moves in either direction, but what if the market just grinds sideways for a bit?

This is where some delta neutral credit spreads can help out.

And my preference is to initiate these trades in liquid ETFs that are exhibiting relatively high implied volatilities.

The latest Young Aristocrats report is out and as always, there are some great opportunities setting up there. These are stocks with tremendous dividend growth consistency that are also setting up for bullish price action. How can investors not love these setups? Win from the price appreciation, and get paid while you wait in the form of dividends. Yes, please!

The opportunity that best caught my attention today is an all-time high breakout in a niche corner of the market.

It's summertime and where I live in Colorado, everyone is planning camping and RV trips up in the mountains. There's something about fresh mountain air, cool crisp evenings, and enjoying a beverage next to a roaring campfire.

You would think that this would be bullish for companies that are in the business of supplying the gear for entrepid campers and roadtrippers.

Well, we only follow price and the chart action in one camping name is potentially telling a different story.

I feel like I say this every time I put a bearish trade on these days: My bearish muscles feel out of shape!

But the ASC team put out a bearish piece on transportation stocks last week and one of the airlines, in particular, has a setup that is uniquely interesting to me.

So it's time to put in our bearish reps to rebuild these muscles!

The team at All Star Charts has started putting out a new report called "Follow the Flow." The goal of this report is to "create a universe of stocks that experienced the most unusual options activity – either bullish or bearish… but NOT both."

The unusual activity we're witnessing in these stocks is not necessarily "smart" money, but "aggressive" or "motivated" money. This is a useful signal.

With this in mind, one of the names mentioned in the most recent report caught my eye for a shorter duration bullish options bet.

This is the video recording of the June Options Conference Call with Sean McLaughlin & JC Parets.

We're continuing to see strength and leadership in the semiconductor space. And a name the All Star Charts teams has been high on for some time has recently begun to break out from a new consolidation. Being that the stock is also making all-time highs -- you know situations like this get me excited.

So heading into a long Memorial Day Weekend, we're putting one more position on the books to round out our month.

Strength in energy and metals continues.

The ASC team had a post out last week highlighting some bullish developments here, and the strength continues in early trading this week. And one stock, in particular, is threatening new all-time highs coupled with declining options prices --- my favorite kind of setup.

I'll be honest with you. I've been on cruises before. I don't think I have a need to ever do them again. I mean, the time spent "in port" was where the real fun for me was. Time trapped on the boat? Meh.

But, I know many people disagree with me and LOVE going on cruises.

I'm fine with that. Especially if it gives me an opportunity to make some money. And we've got one such opportunity on board!

Ok, I've changed my mind.

A few of my readers have pinged me privately drawing my attention to an Oil & Gas sector name that could possible make for a good "catch up" trade in the space. I generally would rather play in the leaders, rather than hope for the laggards to catch up, but I've been observing the price action from a safe distance after the ASC team put out a bullish idea in this name during their Monthly Charts Strategy Session a couple weeks back.

I like the way it put in a hard reversal last week and it's giving me some comfort to get in now with calls options priced pretty affordably.

Reporter: "Why do you rob banks?"

Willie Sutton: "Because that's where the money is."

True 'nuff. And the same could probably be said of insurance companies, no?

With this in mind, we've got a mid-cap dividend paying insurance company with a beautiful trend thats looking like it wants more.

The latest Young Aristocrats report dropped on Friday last week. If you love dividends combined with momentum (who wouldn't?), then this report is always a must read.

Banks of all sizes have been a bright spot for us lately as we're currently enjoying gains in Morgan Stanley $MS and the Regional Banks ETF $KRE.

Well, this week's YA report highlighted a couple more banks with attractive setups and one in particular looks like a great setup to play with straight long call options.