This week, Options Tribe Member Tom Hughes appears for the first time to discuss the monthly Broken Wing Butterfly trade that he personally designed.
SMBU’s Top Options Trader Teaches His Top Options Strategy
We just pulled up a second Rock Options Strategy recording from our archive and posted for you to watch. We’re taking these two videos down soon. So watch them now. The first video we posted is a recording from back in May 2013. It looked good then, and the same options trading strategy (with the same rules) is still working … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Russell Rhoads, CBOE: Shorting Volatility with $VXX options
This week, Russell Rhoads of the CBOE returns to the Options Tribe to discuss how he uses $VXX options when his bias is short as to market volatility.
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: SMBU’s Andrew Falde: The TEA Iron Condor Options Trading Technique
This week, SMBU’s Andrew Falde returns to the Options Tribe to present his TEA iron condor options trading technique. Earlier this year, Andrew taught a small group of traders the TEA Iron Condor system. The system is robust enough to handle the recent big market moves because it is comprised of a mix of trend following and market neutral income components. Andrew will also discuss some of the filtering technique that he uses to help reduce risk during black swan events.
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Joe Murray of SMB Capital: Trading Medium Probability Iron Condors
This week, Joe Murray of SMB Capital will discuss the findings of his live trading and exhaustive backtesting of his medium probability iron condor strategy.
Options Traders that Don’t Fail Have This in Common
The data is in and the record is clear: Income traders who control the size of their losing trades are the long term winners. Having run our options trading desk at SMB since 2013 and having traded options income strategies for much longer… I can tell you that this simple truth proves itself over and over — on a regular basis. … Read More
One Mistake Your Broker is Glad You’re Making
A common mistake that new and developing traders make in the options market is to trade strategies that involve high commissions relative to the earning potential. We often see newer options traders applying great options strategies to the wrong instruments. Option trading strategies that involve frequent management to control risk can be commission intensive. This is especially true if you’re … Read More
3 Reasons to Pairs Trade with Options
Pairs trading is a market neutral strategy that focuses on the correlation of two instruments rather than pure direction. For example, you may want to be long $GOOGL and use a short $QQQ position to offset your systemic risk. Or you may see the relative weakness of $IWM and look to trade it long against a short $QQQ position for … Read More