CRM – 9/28/18 – Iron Condor I have always struggling trading CRM, not sure why I keep trying. The return here looked pretty good, I guess that is one reason I keep trying to trade it. On 9/28 I entered into a 11/16 Iron Condor selling the $175 Call and purchasing the $180 Call. I […]
Month: February 2019
CC
Covered Calls – You are Doing it WRONG! What if we told you everything you have been taught about writing Covered Calls is Wrong! What if we told you, you had been doing it wrong this entire time? Would you listen? Can we convince you there is a better way? If you can give us […]
HPO
High Probability Options High probability options trading is all about trades that give you be best chances to be successful. We use Iron Condors, Broken Wing Iron Condors, Butterflys and Strangles to give us the best chances for successful trades based on current market conditions, option delta and volatility. We do not use chart patterns […]
February 22nd 2019 Weekly Review and Look Forward
2/22/2019 Weekly Recap and Look Forward We only got a small pullback on Thursday. We expected more but it appears this is a consolidation for a move. Butterflys We only closed one of our Butterflys last week for a small profit of just over 6%. We are still in the rest and the majority are […]
TLT 9/25/18 Broken Wing Iron Condor
TLT – 09/25/18 – Broken Wing Iron Condor I got on a little bit of a habit of placing these Broken Wing Iron Condors during this time period. Great if you are expecting the market to move a certain direction, but don’t over do them. If the market suddenly changes on you and you are […]
Covered Call Strangle Entry
Covered Call – The Strangle Entry When people learn option trading strategies they typically start with the old faithful of option trading strategies, the covered call. Trading a covered call option strategy is one of the foundation option trading strategies that everyone learns. But, what some people do not realize is that a covered call […]
IYR 9/24/18 Broken Wing Iron Condor
IYR – 09/24/18 – Broken Wing Condor I decided to place a Broken Wing Condor in IYR after a move down with no risk to the upside. I felt it had its run down and now was due for a rebound. Turns out I was wrong, that is the problem with trying to pick a […]
Strangles What Are they and How do We Trade Them.
Strangles – What are they and How do we Trade Them? Strangles are the only uncapped risk, limited reward strategy we trade. As a result we are highly selective about how we trade Strangles. We base our strangle trades like we place our probability based non-index and Broken Wing Iron Condors. We use probabilities and […]
XOP 9/24/18 Broken Wing Iron Condor
XOP – 9/24/18 – Broken Wing Iron Condor XOP was trading at $43.22 and I thought a move down or a sideways move was the most likely outcome over the next month or so. I entered this trade with no downside risk and an upside break even of $45.57. When I entered this one Implied […]
2/15/19 Weekly Recap and Look Forward
2/15/2019 Weekly Recap and Look Forward Butterflys I don’t think we closed any of our short butterfly’s this week. QCOM is a little worrying because of time decay. If QCOM makes a move toward the downside we might be in a little trouble. The others are about break even. Probably should have taken profits on […]
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