The 10 Second Overview: The video below goes through the open $IWM Options Put Butterfly positions for the December 2014 and January 2015 expiration cycles. The December expiration has been very challenging for neutral options trading, but the recent sell-off left the position in great shape. The January position looks very good for only being […]
Some background: Let’s face it, technology has made it possible to access a wide range of tools for developing, backtesting, and optimizing systems. However, a simple (but powerful) tool like excel is a great way to validate a trading system. In this example we’re going to be keeping things really simple and backtesting a monthly […]
Big Picture: Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Today I need a little help and some feedback from all of you. I’m in the process of putting together what will become a monthly newsletter. The newsletter is going to cover momentum investing across a wide range of markets and will accordingly be called the Market Momentum Newsletter. I […]
Big Picture: An evolving focus? Yes. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I took a new job that makes it difficult for me to monitor the markets during the day and that’s forcing me to adjust my trading style a little bit. Fortunately, I’m around for the first hour of trading so I’m […]
What is investing anyway? I haven’t spoken much about investing on the blog and, honestly, there’s a good reason. I’m not a very active “investor” and I have a tendency to get bored with the whole concept of investing. That being said, investing is an area that I’ve really wanted to understand better and also […]
Big Picture: Well, winter finally showed up in Sun Valley this week. I was away from home all week for work and was greeted with new snow when I got in late Friday night. I guess these things happen. As far as markets go, most of my focus in the past week was on the $IWM […]