In this video, Seth Freudberg talks about entering a bearish butterfly late in a trading cycle. Sometimes options traders, for capital reasons, are forced into entering options trades later than normal. This video discusses a way to enter the bearish butterfly strategy later than its prescribed start date. This approach takes advantage of the basic premise of the bearish butterfly–that … Read More
What to Do When Your Bearish Ideas Aren’t Working?
In this video, Andrew shows you the results of a 5+ year back test using VXX and UVXY.
A Safer Way to Be Long at the “Top”
When I start getting signals to be long at the upper end of the range, it can be a psychological challenge. Traders don’t want to be “late”. It may seem like the move already happened and the risk/reward is not favorable to have a long bias. Here’s the reality. Market neutral, positive Theta options traders don’t have to make that distinction. … Read More
The Bearish Butterfly Trade
This week, Seth Freudberg discusses the basics of the bearish butterfly options trade with the college program participants who spent five weeks with us this summer delving into equity, options and forex trading. The SMB Options Training Program is a program designed for novice and intermediate level options traders who are seeking an intensive training process to learn how to … Read More
Options Webinar Preview: the Bearish Butterfly
So far in this new M21 options training series, we have set the parameters for success with two guidelines: One trade does not fit all: Multiple strategies in your options trading plan is a must, to correctly allocate capital for different market conditions. Market conditions will change: The strategies can be used as stand-alone systems but to gain the status … Read More
AUDUSD Bearish But Where To Short?
Recently AUDUSD has presented a bearish condition, but shorting lows is risky. — Marc, Principato Risk Disclaimer *No Relevant Positions
Were You Too Bearish After the Jobs Report?
Were you too bearish after the jobs report this Friday? Let’s set up the scene for Friday’s trading. We had bounced from 160 SPY to 163ish before the report. Then the pundits and traders began to battle at the 163.50 level. At first it appeared the buyers had won sending the market towards 164 SPY, but as traders we knew this … Read More
December’s $RUT Bearish Butterfly Trade
One of my favorite options spread trades is the Bearish Butterfly. I developed this trade a number of years ago in recognition of the fact that no matter how much the market may rally, it will eventually experience pullbacks. So an options spread trade, developed to take advantage of these periodic pullbacks should work in most market scenarios. In the … Read More
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