From My Inbox – MA Adjustment

by Jeff on May 18, 2013

I received this email on 5/17/2013 from Sarah asking about the JUN Iron Condor on MA that I had placed an alert on earlier in the day. The IC’s strikes are (were) at 495/500/600/605.  A snapshot of the MA weekly/daily/intra-day chart is below. My reply follows her email. Hi Jeff, In your video this morning, [...]

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RUT Calendar Analysis

Read the full article → May 12, 2013

I also duplicated this post with a video just in case you want to get a bit more detail. But what I’m looking for is your ideas and/or opinions regarding possible ‘adjustments’ or exit strategies for this position. Back on March 25th, I opened a Double Calendar on RUT that I called an insurance policy. [...]

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From My Inbox – Closing Iron Condors

Read the full article → April 21, 2013

Shaz asked this question on my 5-10 Iron Condor post (this logic is the same for Credit Spreads): Quick question: for an iron condor, if I sell vertical calls and puts and collect credit ($$) and then my prediction of price is good, the option is worth 0.01 or less than 0.05 last day of option [...]

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The 5-10 Iron Condor

Read the full article → April 7, 2013

Remember when you first started to think about trading Options? Remember all the risk statements you had to read? Remember when you told your friends and family what you wanted to or were thinking of doing? Remember what they said? I do! Things like, “You better watch out or you could lose everything, even your [...]

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Profit Tent Portfolio™ Update for MAR/APR 2013

Read the full article → March 18, 2013

I’ll keep this post short and sweet. You can see additional detail in the video on YouTube. I frequently give brief updates to my PTP™ in my Daily Scan videos. This is my Paper Account snapshot for MAR 2013 with the results of the second month of testing. As you can see it turned a [...]

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Low Volatility ETP

Read the full article → March 10, 2013

Being an option guru, I should stick with what I know the best – and that’s options. But a few weeks ago I read about a way to hedge a portfolio in order to cushion big moves in market volatility using an ETP. I heard about it from Bill Luby, who runs a blog called [...]

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YouTube Analytics

Read the full article → February 14, 2013

This is a bit off topic, but I thought you might be interested in the statistics and demographics of my YouTube Channel viewers (click on the image to enlarge). The first bunch of data shows that most viewers are male – 95% – and live in the US. I don’t think that’s any surprise. What I [...]

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PTP™ Update

Read the full article → February 11, 2013

Well, I finally was able to squeeze this video in before the market closed today. The Profit Tent Portfolio™ for FEB on underlyings grabbed from my A+ list was overall a success. It pulled in about $357 (after commissions) on a total risk of $2,500 – about at 14% return on risk. I’m happy with [...]

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You Can Trade a Stock Like You Bet the Super Bowl…

Read the full article → January 30, 2013

This is a guest post by Steve Moses. You don’t have to be 100% right to profit…you just can’t be REALLY wrong. Most people understand how to bet on the Super Bowl…you pick the team you think will win, and you place a bet. If that team wins, you win your bet…your team loses the [...]

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Trading Pro System – What the…!?

Read the full article → January 30, 2013

Just a quick not here to let you know that the Trading Pro System links are not working any more, so I have temporarily removed the page until I get to the bottom of this. I apologize for any inconvenience. Happy Trading ◄Jeff►

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