ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When designing trading systems, it's easy to keep adding parameters or filters. But does the system perform better when it's more complex? Here's how you can keep your system efficient and only add more when it's necessary....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You may not give much thought to self-discovery, but it plays a role in trading, especially when it comes to managing uncertainty. Find out how....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief option strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how to minimize their risk while maximizing profits using options. To submit a question for our Explore Your Options column, post it to our website at http://Message-Boards.Traders.com. Answers will be posted there, and selected questions will appear in a future issue of S&C. This month: crude oil investments....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We can't predict the future, but we can get telltale information from charts. Here's one possible setup that gives you an idea about price direction....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Want to find out how the futures markets really work? DeCarley Trading senior analyst and broker Carley Garner answers your questions about today's futures markets. This month: part 2 of the discussion on buying option strangles....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stan Freifeld traded options on the floor of the American Stock Exchange for his own account from 1994-2001. He was a market maker for options on several popular equities. As managing director of McMillan Analysis Corporate Services Division, he now teaches option trading and risk management. We spoke with him on December 6, 2013 about the trading floor, the greek variables, implied volatility, and how he approaches option trading today....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...An introduction to this issue from our Editor....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To submit a question, post your question to our website at http://Message-Boards.Traders.com. Answers will be posted there, and selected questions. This month: The Volcker Rule and the cost to carry positions....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Small-range bars are your friends. They're talking to you. Listen to them....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you're trading options, you've probably heard of static option income strategies. They promise low but almost riskless profits every month by selling premiums in up, down, or sideways markets, and you don't have to make any predictions about the direction or the volatility (implied or actual) of the underlying. Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Here's what you need to be aware of before you start trading them....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Last month in part 1, we tracked the growth in weekly options and presented one trader's success story trading AAPL iron butterflies. Here, we look at three more ways to trade weeklys....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from OANDA/FinGraphs and Option Workbench/Tradier Brokerage....
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Oscar Cagigas's article in this issue, "The Degree Of Complexity." Here we present the February 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...