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Riding Out Geopolitical Risk
By Brian Benson, On Course with Options In my recent blog post, “Selling Options On Oil”, I made mention of “geopolitical risk” in oil markets. This is probably a term that we’ve all been hearing a little too much [...]
Five Myths about Options Trading and Stock Trading
By: Neil Szczepanski, Tradeology: The Fifth Insight Myth #1 – Options trading is very risky While trading options does carry risk, options can be used in a defined risk strategy. This is when you limit your upside but also [...]
Selling Options On Oil
By Brian Benson, On Course with Options Why Trade Oil? The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures contract (ticker CL) represents a huge market with great liquidity. Liquidity is an important consideration when picking a market to trade because [...]
Three Steps to Trading a New Strategy
By Matt Hensley, Two Roads Trading For a trader, there's nothing more exciting than finishing up a book, coming home from a conference or watching a video and coming away with a new strategy, especially, one with good historical [...]
The Similarities Between Stock Crash of 1937 and Today
By Neil Szczepanski, Tradeology Many of us active in the markets today were not around in 1937. In the stock market crash of 1937, there was a 50 percent drop in value that took about 17 years to recover. [...]
A Simple, Low-Maintenance Strategy for Metals Exposure
By Brian Benson, On Course with Options Why Invest in Metals? Gold and silver have historically been valued as a physical store of wealth and a hedge against economic risks such as inflation. Moreover, for diversification purposes gold and [...]
Starting Your Year End Review
By Matt Hensley, Two Roads Trading There is no better way to improve as a trader than self-reflection and self-review. As we move into the final quarter of 2019, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what you did well [...]
How will Artificial Intelligence Affect Retail Trading in 2020
By: Neil Szczepanski, Tradeology In order to best understand the effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on retail trading one must first understand what AI is. AI is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Particular applications [...]
Tax Advantages of Trading Futures and Options on Futures
By: Brian Benson, On Course with Options What is Section 1256? For traders who are subject to US tax regulations and file Federal tax returns in the United States, there’s a rather useful, but not widely known, portion of the [...]
Trading in These “Crazy” Markets
By Matt Hensley, Two Roads Trading For the past few months, the superlatives used to describe the market by swing traders, including crazy, untradeable and irrational, have been all over the place. In reality, no market is untradeable, though [...]