Overview: Well, it’s the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and the markets are pretty quiet. This is a video recap of the open positions at Theta Trend as we go into the holiday weekend. If you just watch the video and don’t read anything else on this page, you should still probably check out the Donchian Trade […]
Overview: I guess sometimes we can’t get the trades we want and in those cases it’s usually better to wait another day or go play another game. I decided to go play another game . . . of sorts. A while back I mentioned that I would trade a RUT Iron Condor as part of […]
Intro: I have a long history and something of a love/hate relationship with Iron Condors. One of my first option trades was a DIA iron condor during the financial crisis. I went back and looked and at the time I opened that trade, implied volatility was in the low 50% range and it fell to […]
Trend Following Overview: Trend Following trading generally makes use of a large number of underlyings (think markets) and trades all markets with a mechanical system. As I mentioned on this post, Donchian channel breakout systems can be used across numerous markets. There are countless other trend following systems that can be used to trade numerous […]