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Legging In and Out of Vertical Spreads
By: Michael Tibbits, YouCanTrade Trading vertical spreads allows one to trade directionally with generally limited risk and limited reward. Vertical spreads are built by buying one type of option, such as a call or put, and selling that same kind [...]
Subjective vs Objective
By: Becky Hayman, Traddictiv Coach We’ve all heard traders who say they have a hunch about a particular stock or a certain trade “looks good” or “feels right.” It’s as if there is a kind of intuition about the [...]
Three Possible Reasons Why the Markets Keep Going Up
By Neil Szczepanski, Tradeology: The Fifth Insight As we are all aware the markets have been on a tare lately. The Nasdaq has regained much of its losses from the start of the pandemic. This has left many wondering [...]
Buying Stocks at a Discount by Selling Put Options
By: Michael Tibbits, Instructional Designer The recent drops in the stock market resulting from the Coronavirus have created buying opportunities for long term investors. If you are considering purchasing stocks, read on to see how you can use put options [...]
Getting to Know Your Equities Account
Rules every stock or options trader should know about their account before placing their first trade It’s important to know the differences between cash accounts and margin accounts. Both are equities accounts where you can trade stock or stock options, [...]
What You Need to Know About Covid-19 and Options/Stock Trading
I recently returned from New York for the NYC Traders Expo and Covid-19 (Coronavirus) was on the mind of all there. As I looked around, I saw people wearing masks, people hoarding hand sanitizer and saw one person wrapped in [...]
Revenge of the Trades
Have you ever lost big? Did you think about placing a bigger, riskier trade to off-set the loss? You probably thought to yourself “if this works, I’ll make back more than I lost.” With all of the sudden drops in [...]
Why Trade Options?
Maybe you have heard about trading options and were cautioned to stay away because they are too risky. While it may be true options trading is not suitable for everyone – options can be a valuable tool in a trader’s [...]
What is Yield Curve Inversion and What does it Mean
By Neil Szczepanski, Tradeology: The Fifth Insight We have all heard it – “As the yield curve slips towards inversion, the recession warning light blinks red—again.” But, do we all know what this means? In order to understand the effect [...]
Learning How to Learn
By Matt Hensley, Two Roads Trading For many of us, learning how to trade may be the first truly new skill or concept we’ve learned in many years. After school and moving into a career, we usually don’t have time [...]