SPX Options vs. SPY Options: Which Should I Trade?
What’s the Difference Between SPX and SPY Options? What Is SPX? SPX is the S&P 500 index, which is a stock market index that measures the performance of 500 large cap…
Yes, We Are Playing Not to Lose!
A few weeks ago we introduced a new strategy to our members. While a double diagonal spread is a well known strategy, we are trading it with a tweak. The…
The Impact of Implied Volatility (IV) on Popular Options Trades
This article will shows how this works, and how IV can affect your decision on what type of trade to open.  Directional Spreads Let’s start with the simplest of…
Please Follow Me Inside The Insiders
Insider Buying and Selling In doing so we are competing with quant-based analysis that is poring hundreds of millions of dollars into similar things and rarely does the retail investor…
Rules-Based Money Management – Part 6: Putting It All Together
Note to the reader: This is the twenty-second in a series of articles I’m publishing here taken from my book, “Investing with the Trend.” Hopefully, you will find this content…
Growth is Alive and Kicking for S&P 500
In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, Dave welcomes Mike Singleton of Invictus Research. David highlights a bearish momentum divergence for gold, and also illustrates how mid-cap and small-cap stocks…
This Semi is a ROCKET With MORE UPSIDE
On this week’s edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows a specific semiconductor stock that meets all the criteria that he looks for. He starts with the monthly…
Hedging the S&P 500 All-Time Highs With Options
As equity markets print new all-time highs and the CBOE Volatility Index ($VIX) prints 52-week lows, this should be considered a bullish outlook by all accounts.However, when you look under…
Stock Market Behavior: Separating Signal From Noise
My initial intent was to focus on the number of major equity indices near their all-time highs or attempting to break out of long-term ranges, and how their behaviors around…
Metaplanet Emerges as Top Gainer in Japanese Stocks After Adding Bitcoin to Reserves
Investment firm Metaplanet has experienced a remarkable surge in its shares, skyrocketing 158% over the past week and emerging as the highest gainer among all Japanese stocks. The company’s share…