In this video presentation, Seth Freudberg, SMBU’s Director of Options Training, explains the Triple Butterfly trade, which provides a good example of how options income trades can be successfully adapted to address strong market movements. Seth Freudberg Director, SMB Options Training Program The SMB Options Training Program is a program designed for novice and intermediate level options traders who are … Read More
The Broken Wing Butterfly Trade
In this video presentation, Seth Freudberg, SMBU’s Director of Options Training, explains the weekly broken wing butterfly trade, a powerful market-neutral strategy that is a favorite of options trading professionals. Seth Freudberg Director, SMB Options Training Program The SMB Options Training Program is a program designed for novice and intermediate level options traders who are seeking an intensive training process … Read More
Smart Options Trading: Unlocking Success with Strategy and Skill
“It’s better to be lucky than smart.” I’m not sure how that one got started, but I have to count that as one of the most foolish expressions in the English language. First off, what does it even mean? That if you have no intelligence or experience, that the only thing you have left is “luck” and you had better … Read More
Unveiling the Love Story of Options Trading: Confessions of an Options Geek
We had an ice storm on the East Coast this week that knocked my Internet service off the grid and shut down electricity throughout the area, and so I wandered through the city whose infrastructure had failed me as snow and ice fell around me. From home to office to a soccer-mom-filled Starbucks, I finally made it to my daughter’s … Read More
How to Play Earnings with Options
Trading equities around an earnings report can be exciting, to say the least. To be successful you would need to project what the earnings results might be for a company and then you may need to determine how the markets might react to that earnings report. That is one unknown on top of another, and you basically need to be … Read More
Free Options Webinar: Craig Hilsenrath of Optionworkbench.com: Improving Options Portfolio Returns Using Probabilities and Statistics
Tuesday January 7, 2014 at 5pm ET Each Tuesday, SMB hosts an Options Tribe meeting where veteran traders and experts in the world of options trading share live presentations. This meeting is free to the public on the first Tuesday of each month. All other meetings require an annual membership to OptionsTribe.com. To register or join, please use the invitation … Read More
Options Webinar: Casey Platt: Gamma Scalping
Today at 5pm ET Each Tuesday, SMB hosts an Options Tribe meeting where veteran traders and experts in the world of options trading share live presentations. This meeting is free to the public on the first Tuesday of each month. All other meetings require an annual membership to OptionsTribe.com. To register or join, please use the invitation link below. SMB’s … Read More
Demystifying Options Contracts: Understanding Strike Prices
One of the basic concepts of trading options is the “strike price” of the option. For call options, the strike price is the price at which you have the right to buy the asset before expiration, and for put options the strike price represents the price at which you have the right to sell the asset at expiration. As the … Read More