June 30, 2015 by Dan • Education

Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Tuesday’s trading: 1. WMT – made a new intra-day 52 week low and is quickly approaching massive long term support at $70. When the …

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June 29, 2015 by CC • Education

A couple weeks back we entered a trade in Caterpillar (CAT) with the idea that we could fade a recent bounce to resistance while financing a bearish earnings trade in August expiration. Here was the trade from …

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May 22, 2015 by CC • Education

Yesterday we highlighted the major difference between weekly implied vol and June regular vol in HPQ and offered up two calendar trades. To recap, here were the trades and the rationale:  

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May 20, 2015 by CC • Education

We got a great subscriber question on trade management the other day that I wanted to turn into an educational post for all to see. Here is the question. When holding a fly into expiration, …

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April 20, 2015 by Dan • Education

Shares of Microsoft are up 3.5% today, its largest one day gain of the year, bringing its losses for the year to about 7%.  There does not appear to be any news in the stock …

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