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SOYBEAN upward move play with Teucrium Soybean $SOYB trust fund (1) Futures Technical Analysis Bullish triangle with RSI breakout. Enought space for bullish move. s3.tradingview.com (2) SOYB trust fund I've skipped the futures instrument, because I'm not like options on futures. My choice for Soybean play is $SOYB with relative high IVR value. Optimal for Short Put Vertical strategy, similar TA here, with RSI pullback. s3.tradingview.com (3) Clear uptrend Higher Lows Higher Highs. s3.tradingview.com CONCLUSION: Max profit: $685 Probability of Profit: 55% Profit Target relative to my Buying Power: 47% Max loss with my risk management: ~$200 Req. Buy Power: $1320 (max loss without management at expiry, no way to let this happen!) Tasty IVR: 66 (ultra high) Expiry: 35 days Buy 10 SOYB May21' 20 Put Sell 10 SOYB May21' 22 Put Credit Put spread for 0.685cr each, because IVR is relative high. Stop/my risk management : Closing immediately if daily candle is closing BELOW the box, max loss in my calculations in this case could be 200$. Probability of loss in this way: ~25% . No stress above $21.1 level. Take profit strategy: 65% of max.profit in this case with auto sell order at 0.27db. Probability of profit this way: ~75%. Of course I'll not wait until expiry in any case! If you liked this article, check my other ideas. Anyway: HIT THE LIKE BUTTON BELOW , and for fresh option ideas FOLLOW ME( @mrAnonymCrypto ) on tradingview !
AMEX:SOYBLong
by TanukiTrade
Why Options Are DangerousIn today’s article, I want to answer a few questions about why options can be dangerous. What are the risks of trading options? Are puts or calls riskier? Why is option selling risky? We’ll also talk about the safest options trading strategy. So let’s get started and let’s jump right in. Buying Calls & Puts First of all, you need to understand that there are different types of options. There are call options and put options. So calls versus puts, which one is riskier? Some people think that trading puts are riskier, while some people might think that trading calls are riskier, but this is not the case at all. The key question is that you should ask yourself is, are you BUYING options or are you SELLING options? There’s a huge difference between buying and selling, as well as different levels of risk involved between the two. So when you’re buying options, the maximum amount you can lose is the premium you paid. So let talk about a very specific example. Let’s look at a trade I took with TSLA and let’s say that we want to trade a call. So let’s maybe say a 700 call and right now the price is $700. What is the maximum that you can lose? Let’s say that we are bullish on Tesla and we believe that Tesla might go above $750, and we want to buy a call with a strike price of 750. So a 750 strike call expiring next week costs around $1.70 (at the time of writing this article on March 19th, 2021). Now options come in 100 packs, so this means that you’re paying $170 for this option. So in this case, if TSLA does not go above 170 by next Friday, you would lose the $170. So this is very easy, the maximum amount that you can lose is the premium that you paid. On the other hand, you are bearish on Tesla. You believe that it might actually go down to $560 so you’re thinking about a put option with a strike price of 560 that expires next week. A put with a 560 strike price expiring next week is $4.50 so a little bit more, pricier here. Again, since options come in 100 packs, this means that your total risk here is $450 per option traded. It’s the same risk here because it doesn’t really matter whether you’re buying calls or you’re buying puts. The maximum amount that you can lose is the premium. Now, on the other hand, there are SELLING options, and when you’re selling options, this is when your risk is almost unlimited. When you’re buying options, and let’s just say you want to buy a call, this means that you want the stock to go up. So going back to our TSLA example, if we would buy a call 750, that it is expiring next week for $170, if Tesla goes above 750, we make money. If Tesla goes below 750 or stays at 750, we lose the premium or $170. So not really a big deal. Now, how much money could we make on this one? Well, if we buy a call for 750, we have the right to buy 100 shares of Tesla for $750. So let’s say that Tesla closes at $800. So in this case, our profit is $800, minus the $750 that we bought Tesla for, which is $50 per share. Since options come in 100 packs, this means that we would make $5,000 in profits. This is why people love trading options. Because if you think about it, we’re risking $170 and can potentially make $5,000 if Tesla would go up to $800. Now, let’s quickly do an example here for buying a put. So buying a put and in this case, you want the stock to go down. Using our example for TSLA again, we will buy a put with the strike price of 560 for $4.50. So our total risk here is $450. So now if Tesla goes below $560, the strike price here, we make money. Now, if Tesla stays above 560, we lose the premium. But that is the maximum that we can lose. So even if Tesla rallies right now to 800, we would only lose $450. So that is pretty cool, right? Let’s say Tesla goes to $500. So we were able to sell the shares for $560, now we can buy it back for 500. So this would be $60 per share. Since one option equals 100 shares, it means that we would make $6,000 in profits. So as you can see, with options, you can benefit from a stock going up, as well as a stock going down, and the really cool thing is that you can risk a little to make a whole lot. Now, here’s the challenge with this. If you buy a call, you only make money if TSLA is really going above $750. So if it stays below, that’s not enough for the buyer of an option to make money. If Tesla goes sideways well, same here, right? Then you not only won’t benefit from it, but you also lose the premium. If Tesla goes down, you also lose the premium. So if you think about it, there are actually three ways how you can lose money and only one way how you can make money, and this is if Tesla really shoots up. This is why many people, including myself, are interested in SELLING options. Selling Calls & Puts What are the pros of selling options? The first pro is that you don’t need to be right about the direction of a stock to make money. Here is an example I’m in right now (at the time of this writing on March 19th, 2021) with LL Lumber Liquidators. So right here, Lumber Liquidators, I actually sold a put with a strike price of 22. When does the buyer of a put make money? Well, the buyer of a put makes money if it goes below $22. For me, the seller of a put, I make money if Lumber Liquidators goes up, it goes sideways, or it goes down. It can go down all the way to 22. This is a drop of a little over 10%. So if you think about it, if LL can go down by 10% and I am still making money and this is why again, this is why selling options is so fascinating. So you don’t need to be right about the direction and you can keep the premium. So here’s the deal, the premium that you receive is exactly what the buyer is giving you. So the premium is rather small, right? So the cons are the premium is rather small, and this is where your risk is almost unlimited. So back to our example here with Lumber Liquidators. I sold a 45 of the 22 puts, and I received $0.20 per share, so $20 per put option. $20 multiplied by the 45 options means that I’m making $900. So this is the premium that I receive. However, here’s the deal. The buyer of a put has the right to sell 100 shares at the strike price. So what does it mean for me? So the seller, which is me, has to buy LL at $22, and again, this is where one option means 100 shares. So for me here, since I’m having 45 options, this means that I would have to buy 4,500 shares. Because this is where we get to the risks of this strategy here. Now, again, Lumber Liquidators can drop more than 10% and I will be just fine. But what happens if it drops below, let’s say to $20 from $22. OK? So I would have to buy Lumber Liquidators at $22, and therefore I would lose $2 per share. Here, in this case, I have 4,500 shares times $2, this means that I would lose $9,000. Now you get the idea of why selling options is fairly risky, because I’m receiving $900, but if it only goes down by $2, I’m already losing $9,000. But what if it gets worse? What if LL drops to, let’s say, $15, right? Again, I have to buy LL at 22, so I would lose $22 minus $15, $7 per share. Since I have 4,500 shares, time $7, this is where I would lose $31,500. OK. So as you can see, it is super risky if you don’t know what you’re doing. Now, I have been doing this for a long time here, selling premium, and I’ve been doing really, really well. Analyzing Risk With RIDE Let talk about a particular trade that I made with RIDE . I sold the 21.50 put and RIDE dropped. I sold 47 contracts, 47 contracts, which means that I own 4,700 shares at a price of 21.50. RIDE right now (March 19th, 2021) is trading at $13.50. So right now, RIDE is at 13.50. So this means that I lose (21.50, minus 13.50) $8. So I’m losing $8 per share and I’m having 4,700 shares, bringing me down to a total of $37,600. Now, let’s talk about it. How much money did I make selling premium on RIDE? Just on RIDE here. I sold the puts initially, then I sold calls, I sold calls, and I just sold a few more puts. In total on RIDE, thus far, I collected $4,935 in premium, but I also have an unrealized loss of $37,600. So it’s super important that you understand that there is risk involved. Now I know my way out of this. I know how I can trade my way out of this if needed. So I collected $4,900, but right now I’m down that amount. However, this means that my net loss is if I would close it right now, which I’m not intending to do, would be $37,000 minus the $4,935, let’s just say $5,000 to make the math easy, is $32,600. That would be a real loss. This is why it’s super important that you understand the risks when you’re trading options. Safest Options Trading Strategy Now, one of the questions that I receive all the time is, “what is the safest options trading strategy?” The safest options trading strategy is covered calls, and here’s why. When you are trading covered calls, it means you own the stock, and now you are selling calls against it. So what does it mean when you are selling calls? When you are selling calls, it means you have to sell the stock at a certain price. Back to my example with RIDE I own 4,700 shares, and I own those at $21.50. So this is where if I sell calls at 22.50, so this means that I have to sell RIDE shares at $22.50. So how much money do I make? So I bought at $21.50, and I sell at $22.50, so this means that I’m making a dollar profit, $1 profit per share. And since I have 4,700 shares I would make $4,700 plus the premium I receive for selling the call. OK. So this is in addition, and therefore, covered calls are by far the safest options trading strategy. The only way how you can lose with this strategy is when the stock goes down. This is where you already own the stock, and therefore, if you want to sell calls against it, it is the safest option trading strategy, at least based on my experience and my opinion.
REducation
by rockwelltrading
1
Naked PUT for $TME crash with 87% Probability of ProfitMy tasty pick for yesterday: Tencenrt Muc Entertainment big crash. (1) Prev. support holds (2) Fibo resistance at fast fall holds Max profit: $120 Probability of Profit: 87% Profit Target relative to my Buying Power: 31% Max loss with my risk management: ~$150 Req. Buy Power: $380 (max loss without management at expiry, no way to let this happen!) Tasty IVR: 104 (ultra high) Expiry: 56 days Sell 2 TME May21' 15 Put Short put option for 0.6 cr each. Stop/my risk management : Closing immediately if daily candle is closing BELOW the box, max loss in my calculations in this case could be 150$. Probability of loss in this way: ~7% (!!!) Take profit strategy: 60% of max.profit in this case with auto sell order at 0.24db. Probability of profit this way: ~85%. Of course I'll not wait until expiry in any case! If you liked this article, check my other ideas. Anyway: HIT THE LIKE BUTTON BELOW , and for fresh option ideas FOLLOW ME( @mrAnonymCrypto ) on tradingview !
NYSE:TMELong
by TanukiTrade
When To Take Profits on Options I’m Markus Heitkoetter and I’ve been an active trader for over 20 years. I often see people who start trading and expect their accounts to explode, based on promises and hype they see in ads and e-mails. They start trading and realize it doesn’t work this way. The purpose of these articles is to show you the trading strategies and tools that I personally use to trade my own account so that you can grow your own account systematically. Real money…real trades. Options trading is really fascinating, and it’s a great way to make money, and I think it is very important to know when to take profits, especially if you like trading The Wheel as I do. So the question is, when should you take profits when trading options? How exactly do you figure this out, is there a formula for it? In this article, I’ll share some guidelines for how and when you should take profits on an option trade. We will answer the question of whether you should let options expire or take profits early. I will show you some very specific examples of two trades that I have going on right now (at the time of this writing on March 17th, 2021). One of them, I took profits today, and the other one I’m still holding on and I will show you exactly why. ]How To Calculate Profits On Options Firstly, let’s talk about how to calculate profits on options. In order to address this, there are two types of options traders. One type of options trader are ones that are buying options, and the other, which I feel is very lucrative, and this is what I’ve been doing for a long time, is selling options and collecting premium. I want to actually talk about selling options and receiving premium, because this is, as I said, what I’ve been focusing on recently with trading The Wheel Strategy. My year-to-date profits on this account so far are more than $54,000 selling premium on options, and I’ll show you exactly how to do this. So when selling options, you’re receiving premium, and for me, the most important metric here is the so-called premium per day or PPD. MARA Example The first example that I want to give you is my position with MARA. Looking over my transactions with MARA over the last 30 days. I sold puts at a strike price of 20, and for this, I received $0.28 in premium per option that I sold. Now options come in 100 packs, so this means that per option I made $28. Now, in this specific example, I sold 50 options total, so this means that I’m receiving a premium of $1,400. I put this trade on March 10th, and these options expired on 3/19. This is $1,400 in premium in 9 days. This comes to $155.55 in premium per day, or PPD. Now this includes weekends. My rule is I’m buying back the option when I can get 90% of the maximum profits, but there’s an exception to this rule. First, let me tell you what that means. So again, I sold each contract for $28, for $0.28. The idea is to buy back the option at $0.03, and this is exactly what I did today (March 17th). So we have another two days to expiration. So today, I bought back a total of 50 contracts at $0.03, and by doing so I made $0.25 in profits on MARA. Now, this is where again, we’re looking at 50 contracts, times $25, so this is $1,250. I was in this position for 7 days. So $1,250, divided by 7 days, means that I made $178.57 a day. Let’s just round to $179 per day. As you can see, $179 is more than the $155.55 that I planned per day. Now let’s think about it. If I would keep MARA right now, if I would keep this option until expiration, but what would happen? I would make an additional $150 in three days. This means that now my premium per day is only $50 per day. This doesn’t make sense to me because this here is actually bad, because my plan was to make $156 per day, and I was able to make $179 per day by buying the options back. If I would hold on to this trade and let it expires worthless. So this is where here, and let it expire worthless, right? This is what would happen. I would make an additional $150 in three days and the premium per day would only be $50. That does not make sense to me at all. This is why here in MARA, it made sense to buy back the put option because by doing so, it frees up buying power meaning that now I can sell more puts. So the idea here is that I’m selling more puts and making more money on the new puts than I would make holding on to MARA. DKS Example Let’s go over another example with a position I have right now with DKS . I sold the 66 strike on March 10th. I sold 15 of them and I received $75 in premium. 15 contracts times $75 comes to $1,125. So let’s do the math right now and see if it makes sense to close this trade today (March 17th) or if we should keep it, and we’re using very similar logic here. So we sold the 66 put expiring March 19th, and we received $75 per contract for it, $1,125 total. We then divide this by 9 days to get to our premium per day, which is $125. So right now, on March 17th, let’s see how much DKS is still worth. Right now, the bid/ask for DKS is $0. 05 over $0.10, and that’s really interesting because I want to buy it back at $0.07. Let’s say right now, if I would place an order right now, I could buy it back at $0.10. Should I do it? If I did this, I would make $75, minus $0.10 ($10 per contract), which is $65 per contract. For all 15 contracts, I would make $975. We find our PPD by dividing $975 by 7 days, which comes to $139. So if I really wanted to, and if I needed to free up some buying power, I could do this. But let’s see what happens if we hold this for a few more days. So if we hold DKS until expiration, we can make an additional $150. It might actually make sense to close it out because $150 over the next three days does not make a lot of sense. When I looked at the option earlier, DKS suddenly jumped from 78 to almost 79. This is a 10% jump in 30 to 45 minutes. When we opened this morning, first, we went down, and then we went a little bit up, and then we were hovering right around where we opened. Earlier this morning, the DKS put was trading at $0.25. So the question is earlier this morning, would it have made sense to close it? Earlier today on March 17th, I could have bought it back for $0.25. So that wouldn’t have made sense, right? Because then if I’m buying it back for $0.25, I would only make $0.50. So this here, $0.50, this is then $750 in seven days, and if we divide $750 by 7 days, this is $107 premium per day. As you can see, the $107 premium per day is less than what I expected. If I would hold DKS to expiration, we can make an additional $0.25, $25 times 15 contracts is $375. Now, if you take the $375 in 3 days, that would be $125 premium per day. So when I’m getting $125 premium per day, this is when it does not make sense to sell it just yet. Should You Take Profits Early? So this is the important thing because the question always is, do you take profits early, or hold until expiration? Well here’s my formula for this. So I want to give you a very specific formula that you can use if you want to. If the current realized premium is a premium per day, PPD, is larger than the planned PPD, this means close it out early. If the remaining premium per day is smaller than the planned premium per day, close it. Only if the current realized premium per day is smaller than the planned premium per day, in this case, hold it. If the remaining premium per day is larger than the planned PPD in this case, you want to hold it. Summary This is why today I wanted to show you my formula for when to take profits on options, especially when you are an options seller. You see, selling options and receiving premium is what we do with The Wheel Strategy, and the most important metric here is the premium per day (PPD). This where using the PPD, you can actually get down to a formula of when exactly you should buy or sell. This is where it’s just a good rule of thumb if you don’t want to do all these calculations. So the rule of thumb is I close a trade when I can realize 90% of the maximum profits.
NASDAQ:MARAEducation
by rockwelltrading
3
VIX Bottom played outVIX bottom play for the next 7 days. Don't use any technical indicator on VIX if it's too low, just move: I don't need big timeframe to playing this out, so 7 days is far enough. Max profit: $90 Probability of Profit: 47% Profit Target relative to my Buying Power: 42% Buy Power: $210 (max loss without management) Max loss with my risk management: ~ $100 Tasty IVR: 11.3 Expiry: 7days Buy 3 VIX Mar24' 19 Call Sell 3 VIX Mar24' 20 Call Debit call spread for 0.7 debit each Stop/my risk management : Closing immediately if daily candle is closing below $19 Take profit strategy: I'm taking at the 75% of max.profit in this case with auto sell order. (at 0.95 credit) If you liked this article, check my other ideas. Anyway: HIT THE LIKE BUTTON BELOW , and follow my fresh ideas ( @mrAnonymCrypto on tradingview ).
TVC:VIXLong
by TanukiTrade
1
[FUBO] Iron Condor - the FuboTV Inc EVENT play Another lazy trade for today, just an event play. Very risky to holding neutral positions in uptrend, so literally just for a few days on table. Event plays are usually a "trade and pray" strategy, so I'm not preferring (TastyTrader Bob and Tom like it, but I've sucked many times width them) In current case I've decided to take the risk. (1) MurreyMath distances More than 5 MurreyMath fraction distance (5/8) for break even border, current price almost the middle of it. I'm judged to secure area 2.5 fraction up, 2.5 fraction down. (2) Nearest pivot points detecting danger area Secure level upside is $54, downside: $30. Inside this I can sleep well. Outside this I'm looking for any kind of minimal profitable exit point. CONCLUSION: Iron Condor for today event Buy 1 FUBO April16' 20 put Sell 1 FUBO April16' 25 put Sell 1 FUBO April16' 60 call Buy 1 FUBO April16' 65 call Expiry: 45 days Take profit: after event at the first possible moment. Risk management: I'm closing the trade immediately - if the daily bar closing outside my strikes - and I'm cutting my loss . (no matter what I'm believing)- usually I'm losing mutch less than my max profit in this case. Danger zone check every day.
NYSE:FUBO
by TanukiTrade
2
VIAC looking juicy for a short/putI don't own stock anymore, I, unfortunately, sold once it hit its fair value estimate of $57. If I owned stock I would either sell it or use some of it to sell calls against to take advantage of the inflated options premiums by collecting that weekly as it goes down. As you can see the separation between the moving averages and the stock price has gotten into nose-bleed territories, the RSI looks grossly overbought for an extended period of time. This party has to come to an end. Not saying this will crash like the overcooked QS did but I would say if you don't have any exposure an in-the-money put option would be nice. ITM put options will have strikes above the current stock price and they have the trade-off of being more expensive but having a higher probability of profit without depending on a severe decline. Looks to be overbought to an alarming level, look out below.
NASDAQ:PARAShort
by EBITDAtiger
4
How I’ve Improved Productivity in My Trading DayI’ve been trading for a long time, and over the years, I’ve learned different ways to make the most of my time. Today, I want to talk about three ways I boost productivity in my trading day: - Using my PowerX Optimizer to quickly scan for long and short trading ideas. - Using my Wheel Income Calculator to find attractive premium collecting ideas. - Having a trading plan and following that plan. In this article, I’m going to break down each one of these and explain what they are. I’ll also explain how they help me streamline my trading. This gives me more time to focus on other things I’m interested in, like my business and real estate. 3 Pillars To Trading I always say there are three pillars to trading: - You need to have a trading strategy. - You need to have the right tools. - You need to have the right mindset. For me, I trade two strategies: PowerX and the Options Wheel. And I developed my own software tools to help me trade these strategies quickly and efficiently. The PowerX Optimizer software shows me what I should trade, when I should enter, when I should exit based on my preferred criteria, and my Wheel Income Calculator tells me which option strike has the best risk/reward. If trading software doesn’t show me this, it’s not allowing me to make the best use of my time. Let’s take a closer look at these software programs, starting with the PowerX Optimizer. PowerX Optimizer With my PowerX strategy, I’m looking to buy calls on stocks trending higher or buy puts on stocks trending lower. The PowerX Optimizer is a software I programmed for myself, my head coach Mark, and my son. A few years ago, we made it available to everyone. This software answers the three questions I’m looking to have answered when I’m looking for stocks - What to trade. - When to enter. - When to exit. The PowerX Optimizer will answer all three of these questions for you. Now, I had the software programmed for myself because I wanted all my criteria in one place. With the PowerX Optimizer, I can scan for my basic criteria that I set within the software. For instance, I want to see a 60% return on investment over the past year, I also want to see stocks that are between $5 and $200, and I want a profit factor higher than 3 and a risk/reward higher than 2. This is the criteria I use for trading this strategy. Your criteria may be different. The scanner finds the best stocks and options for me based on my criteria. I certainly don’t want to just stumble across a stock or trade everyone on TV is talking about. Worst case scenario, if nothing meets my criteria, I simply move on. Every day this scanner produces a list of stocks that I potentially want to trade — in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee! Talk about a time saver! In the beginning, I would just use charting software like TradingView, and I would go through a bunch of stocks every day to see if they met my criteria. It got to the point where I figured there had to be an easier way, which is why I had the PowerX Optimizer developed Instead of spending hours and hours sifting through charts and doing the math, I’m able to find a handful of stocks to look through every day in just minutes. This frees up my time to focus on other things. The Options Wheel Calculator With my Options Wheel strategy, the idea is to “get paid to wait until you buy the stock.” So I’m looking to sell a put and collect premium, and I want to pick a strike that coincides with the level I would feel comfortable buying the stock. Ultimately, I want to get assigned, and then I’ll look to potentially sell covered calls on the stock. The tool I use to identify stocks and options I want to trade with this strategy is the Wheel Income Calculator. The Wheel Calculator pulls up stocks and tells me the minimum option premium I need to collect to make this trade work for me, and the risk/reward setup for each strike. I have set aside $500,000 in buying power for this strategy. That’s what works for me. It does work with smaller accounts if that’s what you have to work with. That’s why I love these tools. They have made my life so much easier. I’m not just picking a trade based on a gut feeling. Instead, I’m trading with a systematic approach that’s based on data. Remember, I like to trade for SCR Profits. SRC stands for Systematic, Repeatable, and Consistent. Trading Plan And that leads me to the last thing I want to talk about today: having a trading plan. You see, having a trading plan is key to having the right mindset to trade. There are three key parts of a trading plan that I’ve already mentioned, but again, they are: - What you’re going to trade? - When you’re going to enter? - When you’re going to exit — both for a profit and a loss. This is also where those limit and stop-loss orders I mentioned earlier come in handy. Limit orders allow you to tell your broker the price you want to get filled, and if you get that price, you move on. Same with stop-loss orders. You tell your broker what point you want to get out of the trade, and if the stock hits that level, you’re out. This allows you to not be tied to your computer, watching every tick the stock makes and opens up your day to allow you to focus on other things. I cannot stress enough how important it is to be prepared when you’re trading — and to have a plan before you enter a position. So, as you can see, by defining my strategies, I developed tools like the PowerX Optimizer and Wheel Income Calculator to help me find trades quickly and efficiently that work with my rules and my plan. I hoped this helped and I’ll see you at the next one.
TVC:SPXEducation
by rockwelltrading
1
Put Option Plan for $GMEI invested in $GME and Initially when I first heard it trended massively, My instant thought was to short the stock because of the obvious overvalue of the company. I went into the situation oblivious to what was actually the WSB's community moving in on the stock. After a lot of research I learned what was going on and gained a complete understanding of the situation at hand and decided to move in. I believe the stock will end its shine by the end of this week, with that thought I came up with my strategy to purchase 2 put option's. I've been day trading for about 4 to 5 months now, and what I have noticed some of the time in the market, is that; Say when the price of a stock is increasing rapidly, there's spots of selling pressure that occur in between Long Bullish sticks. The opening/ Closing price for these moments of selling pressure in a underlying Bullish trend, are points in price where the stock reacts differently around these resistance lines. I am planning on placing my puts strike price $37. The yellow lines represent the range I believe it will be traded in based on selling pressure points and movement around the resistance line off of the first initial Pump. Off Topic: My first time uploading a post here. Let me know what you think of it! Thanks for reading!
NYSE:GMEShort
by GreenDayTrade
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Should I Buy GME Stock Right Now?I’m Markus Heitkoetter and I’ve been an active trader for over 20 years. I often see people who start trading and expect their accounts to explode, based on promises and hype they see in ads and e-mails. They start trading and realize it doesn’t work this way. The purpose of these articles is to show you the trading strategies and tools that I personally use to trade my own account so that you can grow your own account systematically. Real money…real trades. Let’s talk about GameStop GME because the stock’s gone absolutely crazy. I mean, yesterday, January 25th, it was up 144% before swinging into negative territory. Then it reversed again and closed up more than 18%. And today, it’s up another 22% to trade at $93.50. One month ago, it was trading around $20! So, today, I want to look at exactly what’s happening with GME, and let you know if it looks like a good time to buy the stock. What is Happening with GME? GME made its first big move in mid-January after adding Ryan Cohen to its board. This guy is the co-founder and former CEO of Chewy CHWY — the online pet supplies store — so he knows a lot about retail. The stock jumped from $20 to above $40 when that news hit, and this caught a lot of short-sellers off-guard. In fact, according to one CNBC article I read, GME is the most heavily shorted U.S. stock. The article states, “GameStop has been a popular short target on Wall Street. In fact, more than 138% of its float shares had been borrowed and sold short, the single most shorted name in the U.S. stock market.” What’s a Short Squeeze? For those that don’t know, short interest is when a trader bets against the stock, meaning they want it to go lower. To do this, they’ll borrow shares from their broker at one price. If the stock price falls, they can buy the shares back at a lower price to repay their broker and keep the difference as profit. But if the stock rallies, short sellers will have to buy back the shares at a higher price to limit losses. For stocks that are heavily shorted, this can create a sort of ripple effect: Because how do you close a “short trade”? Well, you SOLD the stock earlier so now you have to BUY it back. So when more shorts start covering, i.e. BUYING, the stock climbs higher and higher. This is the short squeeze. And in GME’s situation, as the stock rallied on good fundamental news, shorts started to cover. Then the Reddit crowd got involved. There’s a forum on Reddit called “WallStreetBets”, and their purpose is to, “make money and being amused while doing it.” Their words, not mine. As GME was rallying, online traders on Reddit began posting about the stock and buying it to manipulate the shorts. And as they bought the stock, the price soared, forcing more shorts to cover their positions, and again: This means that more people are BUYING. It’s not surprising there are a lot of traders upset about this manipulation. Famous short-seller Citron Research is one of them and said it would no longer comment on GME because of the “angry mob” on Reddit. Is GME a Buy or a Sell? Now, you could make an argument for GME stock to keep going higher. There are probably some shorts still hanging on. And fundamentally, the company did report solid holiday same-store sales and digital sales growth a few weeks back. But in reality, it’s dangerous to trade GME right now. For starters, look how overbought this stock is. And a lot of times, when these stocks fall, they fall fast. Remember Eastman Kodak KODK last summer when it went from $2 to $60 in two days. And then back down to $6 a month later. And implied volatility is all over the place. This means options premiums are crazy high right now for options buyers. But it’s not a good time to sell options, either, because it’s hard to pinpoint levels of support or resistance. So, yes, you could have made a lot of money trying to trade GME stock, but you could’ve lost a lot of money, too. And whenever I see a parabolic move as we’ve seen in GME , I leave it alone. The risk is simply not worth it. Because at some point, the Reddit traders might lose interest in this stock. So they would just sell it and move on to the next stock, and that could make the stock crash. After all, there are 2.3MM people in this group! More Stocks to Watch Before we go, I just want to check out some more of these “short squeeze” stocks that have been volatile this week. The first is Palantir PLTR , which ran from $26 to almost $40 in two days. Today, the stock is down 3% at $35.12. Another is BlackBerry BB . BB stock ran from $7.50 in mid-January to above $20 yesterday — its highest level since 2011. Today, the stock is up 3.6% at $18.60. And here’s Bed Bath & Beyond BBBY , which was trading around $18 earlier this month, but hit a three-year high near $48 yesterday. Today, BBBY is up 0.1% at $30.68. Finally, there’s AMC AMC . It was trading below $2 at the start of the month and hit a high of $5.19 earlier today. While I’m not going to be trading these stocks because of the risk involved, I’ll certainly be keeping my eye on them.
NYSE:GME
by rockwelltrading
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$MSFT 217c 1/22 - Entry 214, PT 217, SL 213 #optionsValid: January 19th, 2020 Rationale: Funds will, at some point, buy up a bunch of cheap tech. We're also approaching the bottom of long term support. I want to scalp the next round of funds buying big tech. There is a historical shorter term demand/supply gap between 214 and 217. Entry Rules 5 minute close above entry point, indicates positive momentum. Purchase a strike near target Scalps - buy the weekly Swings - buy one week out Stop loss only after Entry, indicates sideway action is taking place, exit to avoid theta or downside.
NASDAQ:MSFTLong
by TroydTrades
How To Start A Successful Trading BusinessWhen you start trading, you need to go into it like you would if you were getting ready to start a business. Too often, I see new ‘traders’ who open their account and before ever mapping out any goals, a strategy, a trading plan, or anything, they’re already putting money into the markets… …and for me, this isn’t trading, this is gambling. So in this article, I’m going to walk you through how you can start your own successful trading business. So let’s dive in! Starting A Trading Business: Step 1 – Charting Software First, as a technical trader (like me) you MUST have good charting software. Charting software is your window into the world of stocks. As a technical trader, we rely on charts and indicators to find high-probability setups. Charting software with good indicators is an essential first step in your path to being a successful trader. I personally use (and highly recommend) TradingView. It is a paid service and for what I do, I use the Pro Version which currently costs $14.95 per month but it is well worth it. Remember, starting your own successful trading business requires a modest investment into the ‘infrastructure’ of your business. Step 2 – Finding The Right Broker Now on to step 2, finding the right broker for you! Finding the right broker can be a tricky process, especially if you live outside of the United States. If you’re trading stocks and options, I highly recommend tastyworks, or Interactive Brokers if you live outside the U.S. Starting A Trading Business: Step 3 – Trading Strategy Next, now that you have your charting software and broker, every trader needs a good trading strategy. Similar to the broker, one size does not fit all. Why? Well, there are a LOT of variables that can go into developing your trading strategy. For example, are you trading for Income or Growth or the amount you have to trade with? All of these things play a big factor in the type of strategy you want to, can, or should trade. Right now, I’m trading two strategies. My core strategies right now are, The PowerX Strategy and The Wheel. Step 4 – Trading Computer The next thing to consider when getting your trading business set up is you will need a computer. Almost all brokers and trading software are cloud-based, so you don’t need a seriously advanced computer anymore. Most computers that are less than 3 years old should be more than powerful enough to run even the most system-intensive trading platform. Step 5 – Additional Monitors. Now, for your home set up, I think at least one additional monitor is a must. The good news is that if you have a laptop, you already have one monitor! If you travel a lot (like me) I would highly recommend the ASUS MB169B+ 15.6″ Full HD 1920×1080 IPS USB Portable Monitor. They’re lightweight and work great on the road or at home. It fits easily in my backpack (because I HATE checking bags) and doesn’t add much weight. Step 6 – Trading Newsletters Next, over my morning coffee, I like to read a few different trading newsletters. I have three primary newsletters right now where I get most of my market-related news. Most of the talking heads on TV are absolutely terrible for getting non-biased information anymore. No matter what station, everything you hear is coming through some sort of filter. For this reason, I stick with these three newsletters that I’ve found to provide good info: - Morning Brew - Seeking Alpha’s Wall Street Breakfast - The Rockwell Trading Newsletter Summary Now that you have all of the pieces in place to start your trading business off on the right foot, in my next article I’m going to go through something that at first, I’m sure you will cringe: Trading Taxes. But I assure you if you’re proactive and take the time to get set up and structured properly, taxes aren’t actually as bad as you’d think for full-time traders. I hope this has helped and you’ve enjoyed it. Good trading!
DJ:DJIEducation
by rockwelltrading
3 Reasons Why You Should TradeNow before I started, you may have thought my top reasons were probably things like: You can trade anywhere, you can do it anytime, and you will have a lot of free time and money. Yes, all of these are good reasons, but I wanted to give you my top three reasons why I think that you should trade. Reason Number Three: Trading Can Make You Money & Money Buys Happiness I’m a firm believer that money CAN buy happiness. Now, I know that this is controversial because people say, “Money can’t buy you happiness.” Based on my experience, they are wrong. I will prove it to you. If you’re an avid reader of this blog, a subscriber to my YouTube channel, or are a member of Rockwell Trading, you know I’m always about the facts. I have multiple trading accounts, and recently I was trading a small account live on my YouTube channel using a trading strategy called The Wheel. Many of you are already trading this strategy as well. On this account up to this point, I have made $3,204, in a month. Even though this isn’t my main account, and is one of my smaller ones, $3,200 is not too bad. Let me prove to you how money can buy happiness. Let me ask you, do know somebody who is in a tough spot right now with everything that we have going on in the world? Do you know someone who got laid off and couldn’t pay their rent? Someone who got sick and couldn’t afford to buy the needed medication? What about somebody whose car broke down, and didn’t have money to fix it making transportation difficult? So so let me ask you this. What if you could have given them $3,204? Do you think that this could have changed that person’s life? Making $3,000 for me is nice, but it doesn’t change my life. But maybe you know somebody whose life we can change with this. Very recently, I decided to give away that month’s worth of profits to a few people in need. I had our members and viewers nominate someone they knew, who was currently having a tough time. We received so many applications, and I reviewed the (heart-wrenching) submissions. I picked the two candidates who I felt could use it the most, and I split the profits from this trading account and sent them a check. It helped them out a great deal, and it meant the world to them. So for me, this was very solid proof that money CAN buy happiness, and can change your life for the better. I believe we have a responsibility to make more money to help not just ourselves, but others. Money buys happiness and this is why I will keep doing it. I’m doing this information out there because I want you to succeed. I want you to make money to give back. There are so many people in need that you could help. Here is an example of one of the nominations for the recipient of the trading profits we gave away. This nominee is a single mother of four children. Her son had a needed surgery a while back and she got stuck with a $9,000 bill. She’s getting garnished for this by taking $150 from each of her paychecks. She’s a nursing assistant and doesn’t receive all that much. She wasn’t one of the recipients that I chose as the final two, but I decided to send her the money that she needed anyway. Now doesn’t have to worry about her paychecks getting garnished for a whole year. Here is an email that I received over the weekend, and it’s from a man named Robert, and it read, “Markus, thank you for being you, brother! Could go into a long story about how ironic it is that I’ve been a Rockwell member for almost four years and finally started applying your trading rules in August of 2020, and had one of my best months ever." "But that’s not what this is all about. I would like to donate an additional $300 to whoever you decide to give the money to. I feel very blessed and just want to pay it forward. Let me know the best method to get the money to you." "Thanks for your persistence and all you do.” Why I’m showing you this e-mail? This is exactly what happens when we start making money together. I know that people are probably telling you, “You can’t make money with trading.” Well, you know what? Prove them wrong. You can make money with trading. Is it easy? No, because you need three things: You need the right strategy, the right tools, and the right mindset. Together we can make a difference Money buys happiness. I believe we have a moral obligation to make as much money as we possibly can to be like Robert. I know that many of you are already donating. I mean, you have told me in these emails and I’m so, so proud of you for what you’re doing already. Together we can make a difference. This is what this blog is all about, and this is what this message is all about.
NASDAQ:TSLA
by rockwelltrading
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Options Idea: Sell The PAM Sep. 18, 2020 10.0 Put @ $0.40Pampa Energia (PAM) is reversing a long-term downtrend, and beginning to trend upwards. After hitting a low of $8.72 in March, we’ve been seeing higher highs and lower lows for the last 4 months. This is an Argentine stock and it’ll probably see a bump higher after the government finishes its sovereign debt restructuring. Also, PAM has a share buy-back program in place and management has been very aggressive about buying back their ADRs when they get close to the $10 zone, which is the strike we've chosen for our naked put. Warning : PAM options are not liquid. So if you decide to enter into this trade, you’ll probably have to take all the way to Sep 18. Since there isn’t much liquidity, so probably won't be for everyone, but we think the current set-up offers a good risk/reward ratio. 20-PAM-02 Opening Date: July 27, 2020 Expiration Date: September 18, 2020 DTE: 53 IV: 76.42% IV Percentile: 42% Odds of Winning: 77.87%% Odds of Losing: 22.13%% Win: > 9.60 @ Expiration Loss: < 9.60 @ Expiration Reg-T Margin: $290 Chart Legend Green Area: 100% Win Zone. If we finish above or in the green area, we keep 100% of our initial credit. The size of the green area is the size of credit (our maximum win). Yellow Area: Danger Zone: We still win, but we have to give back some of the initial credit taken in. Red Area: If we finish in this area we have a loss. The size of the red area is the size of our maximum loss. 1 standard deviation, 2 standard deviation, 3 standard deviation projections from Opening Date to Expiration Date are included.
NYSE:PAMLong
by OptionsCoach