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Choosing Your Expiration Date Butterflies are a strategy that can be used on various time frames, from intraday using 0-day till expiration options, overnight close to weekly expiration, 7-14 days out for a swing trade, or longer. Generally, I prefer to keep my expiration below 14-21 days, or else the trade takes too long to mature. Still, traders who are longer-term swing traders can use the strategy on a longer time frame (so long as the trade is wide enough … Read more
Why Fed Day Butterflies? Trading 0 DTE (days till expiration) options is something I will do when the market is moving, and I have a solid gauge of market direction into the last hour or so of the day. Fed days are generally great days for this strategy, because the market has usually consolidated and built up energy awaiting the Fed announcement. The Fed announcement serves as a catalyst to cause price to explode, allowing traders an opportunity for a … Read more
Hey traders! The Nasdaq continues to defy expectations for a pullback, and as it continues to do that, it is doing something amazing – setting up more squeezes! The squeeze is my favorite directional setup. It identifies when there is consolidation that is likely to break out. That consolidation generally breaks out in the direction of the trend. So, when you have a strong trend, combined especially with relative strength, focusing on squeezes to identify moves to the next targets … Read more
Hey traders, We’ve discussed this bullish buy setup in Microsoft for several weeks! Well, it still hasn’t hit my $420 price target, but my options were going to expire this week. That meant we were getting far too close to expiration for me, and I decided to manage my trade as it was stuck at resistance. In this instance, I took about 85% profit at the $415 target instead of waiting to see if it would make $420 by this … Read more
Hey traders, I’m having my fellow trader and good friend, Chris Brecher, write this week’s Five Star Trader newsletter since I am out of the office today! Chris is the Sr. Managing Director of Stocks here at Simpler Trading and specializes in trading options, futures, and stocks based on technical chart patterns and expert market feel: In April, for the first time in four years, Bitcoin will “halve” the amount of Bitcoins that can be produced. That is good for … Read more
Hey traders! Another day, another video. In today’s Trade Review episode, I discuss taking profits on IBM in addition to managing what was a loser in MSFT. MSFT has bounced back today, but it’s still a useful explanation of support zones when you’re in a losing trade. Check out the video below! Also, next week I will be out of the office on Tuesday, so my good friend Chris Brecher is going to be making a video for all … Read more
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