Critical Levels on the S&P - Doing it Live!
Today's trading day is a great example of having the ability to look over the shoulder of an experienced trader. Let's look at a clip from this morning's room session with Don Kaufman. Then if you'd like to join TheoTrade's live trading chat room here's a special (35% off) one time offer link to use:…
Follow the Pain on Friday
With unemployment numbers on Friday, ahead of Labor Day, we need to ask ourselves what would generate the greatest pain for the most investors? Because the market always targets that which causes the greatest pain point. Markets move because they have to. Let's look at where the pain points may be...
When the Vol Drops, Get Small
The markets look to Janet Yellen's Jackson Hole speech tomorrow. This non-event has turned into event since Ben Bernanke's 2010 speech where he announced quantitative easing. Unless there is some major change in monetary policy from Yellen tomorrow I would expect a continuation of low volatility. Here's what I like to do in a low…
Record Low Historical Vol and What to Expect from Here
With historical volatility sitting at all time lows what are the types of trades that have the potential to work in the coming months? Let's look at a few trade ideas...
Finding Opportunity in a Boring Market
Where to find opportunity in during the dog days of summer in the markets? Let's first do a sector review and see where the sectors are and see which sector(s) are showing opportunity. From there we can look at individual stocks for trading opportunities. In tonight video we find a few potential trade set ups...
Conditions for Reversals and Long Calendars
TheoTraders know how to identify situations where stocks are at an exhaustion and volatility is going to increase. What we like to do is go long calendar spreads in these situations. If you're new to spreads and calendars check out the Options 201 class: Vertical and Calendar Spread Essentials. You can get this 5 part…
Watching for the Character Change
After seven years of a relentless bull market, and now with super-low implied volatility, traders are getting restless and looking for some two-way tape. When corrective price action does return, it will be accompanied by a change in the “character” of the intraday price action, which can tip us off that cracks are appearing in…
Around the Horn with the Sector SPYders
Let's start the week with a look at the all the major sectors. It's helpful to look at all the sectors on fractal time frames to get an idea of the big picture and where we are going...
Time to Go Bearish on AAPL?
The jobs report hasn't moved the markets in a while. Tomorrow will probably be no different barring any major surprise. Let's look at a few trade set ups for tomorrow. There's one I like in AAPL that we can set up in tonight's video...
Grinding Higher into Friday Jobs
Tops are a process and bottoms are an event. The topping event continues to unfold today as the SPX continues to flat line at all time highs. The first place to look for the market to go is to test the break out level. From there we will know a lot more. Let's also take…