Volatility

Trading the Volatility and the VIX

Is important to tell that isn't easy to trade the VIX: it's like an art. Experienced traders know that. Its special behavior forces you to take jealous control of your trade. That's why is best to make VIX trades only in the short term. …

Creating an Option-Based Portfolio

Was since 2020 when, in a revolutionary decision, the main US brokers (Ameritrade, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, eTrade) decide to offer  zero-commission in stocks, ETFs, and options trading,  that the stock market's control changed forever: now th…

Market Pulse: a Key June for Markets

This month begins with events that will determine the market behavior for the rest of the year, by sure. Beforehand, historically, is the market's worst month (hence the popular saying "sell in May and go away"), however, better put the…

Market Pulse: Thanks, Fed...

The errors made by this Fed, intentional or not, will really be historic, and today, after years of an artificially sustained rally without any embarrassment or concern, today we have a panorama that does not know how it will end. Thanks, Fed... Extr…

Option Strategies for Earnings Season

Buy a stock just before its earnings report is a bet: it can be highly profitable or devastating for your portfolio. You decide the risk you face. I always prefer to wait for the report, to compare their numbers with the estimates in EPS, sal…

Three Useful Tools: Fibonacci, VIX, and Elliot Waves

Stock trading, through technical analysis, is an art. There are full of theories, strategies, and tools for doing it. You need to be alert to all of them and choose the adequate before you trade. Here are some simple, but useful ideas, that can he…

Volatile days until Trade War meeting this Friday

After multiple downbeat economic reports earlier in the week, the SP500 SPX finally recovered little to finish the week down only 0.3%, thanks to Friday Jobs Report. Early week, poor numbers out of the manufacturing and services sectors, pushed th…

A Great Tool for Trading: the Range Bars

A really different one! The Range Bars are a different way to create and read a stock chart. Develop by Vicente Nicolellis, it exploits the volatility of the markets, making the time irrelevant in a chart , eliminating it. The main feature of this …

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