Big Picture: It’s important to recognize when our market biases are influencing our trading decisions. Coming into this week I knew the market was looking a little shaky, but it seemed like it was trying to stay afloat. By the end of the week, the market fell down with confirmation in other markets. The news […]
Last week I mentioned that I recently started a full time job. Let me assure that working full time is far from my favorite thing in the world, but, at least for now, it’s what I need to do. While I was out on one of my 4 a.m. caffeine loaded, cold, dark jogs, I […]
Big Picture: Today we’re going to have an abbreviated market commentary that only covers Levels of Interest and the December CIB trade. I have plenty of things I’d like to say about CNBC after the GOP debate this week, but I’ll keep those comments to myself for now. Levels of Interest: In the levels of […]
Big Picture: Despite the noble path of being a Bear, it can be a little frustrating at times. The strange reality of the US Stock markets is that historically the markets have gone higher given a long enough period of time. I’ve talked about it before, but there is a natural buy side pressure in […]
Big Picture: Every day we wake up and the market (and life as well) gives us a new opportunity. When I began trading non-directional options strategies I spent more than a little bit of time trying to will the market to remain still. Do I even need to tell you how that worked out for […]
Big Picture: It’s hard to believe that a little over a week ago the markets looked like they could push lower and I was concerned about moving my November CIB down. Having an opinion about the market is fine, but it’s essential to trade what plays out rather than what we think will happen. This […]