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Solar City is Ready to HEAT UP!

Options Trading ChartsBy Explosive OptionsJanuary 30, 2014

Solar City is one of those high beta names that option traders love to play. This stock goes up and down like a yo-yo; it is highly volatile and especially susceptible to big news. The company was started by Elon Musk (of Tesla fame) and is currently trading near all-time highs. What’s striking is the…

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Find Your Trading Pace and Rhythm When the Market Makes FAST Moves

Options Trading StrategiesBy Explosive OptionsJanuary 28, 2014

How do you handle it when you find yourself on the wrong side of the market? How do you deal with plunges and unexplained rises that put your positions at risk? Do you find yourself making grave errors and mistakes due to some blip or abnormal market beat? As an options trader, I know these…

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VIX is Not Just for Kicks

Stock Market AnalysisBy Explosive OptionsJanuary 28, 2014

One of the best ways to measure market volatility is the VIX index, which basically is an expression of the demand for puts and calls on the SPX 500 index. Some will define it other ways, but simply put, that is the most raw definition – and really suits our purposes here. When the VIX…

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Chart Patterns: W’s Are For Winners

Options Trading StrategiesBy Explosive OptionsJanuary 27, 20141 Comment

Bollinger bands, named for its developer John Bollinger, are measures of volatility shown by bands that are deviations above and below a relevant moving average. The bands expand and contract as volatility increases and decreases. Take a look at this chart on the right; the Bollinger bands are shown in blue. The bands are typically…

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Selling Premium Takes a Different Approach

Options Trading StrategiesBy Explosive OptionsJanuary 26, 2014

With the big surge in the VIX Friday, the one thing that caught my interest was selling. No, not selling my positions – selling PREMIUM. When we see volatility rise in uncertain and fearful times, option premium gets lifted as well. Buyers flock for protection using instruments like VIX, the volatility ETN’s, and index puts,…

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Bob Goes Off the Charts with Jim Cramer on HIMX

Options Trading ChartsBy Explosive OptionsJanuary 25, 2014

Mad Money host Jim Cramer used my Himax (HIMX) chart on a recent show, because he believes the fundamentals around Himax (HIMX) remain solid: their chips are state of the art and should remain in demand. Of course Cramer realizes that with the market selling off broadly, few stocks are immune to weakness, but probably…

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Superstar Trader Todd Gordon On E-Waves, Patterns, and Trading The Charts

Options Trading ChartsBy Explosive OptionsJanuary 24, 2014

This week’s webinar featured a deep-dive into the technicals. I started the session talking about the current state of the market, followed by the charts and technicals of AAPL, TSLA and some others, plus the SPX 500 chart. Based on the technicals, I think this most recent drop is a nice buying opportunity. Todd Gordon…

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CREE Explodes With Earnings, And There’s More Light At the End of the Tunnel

Options Trading ChartsBy Explosive OptionsJanuary 23, 2014

CREE is a name I have traded often over the years with some good results, especially around earnings season. This time the chart wasn’t giving me much of a good read for direction or volatility, so I passed, but now that earnings news is out the technicals turned – literally overnight! The big surge on…

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Working The Bands With A Covered Call Strategy For CIEN

Options Trading StrategiesBy Suzie SmithJanuary 22, 2014

Ciena Corporation (CIEN) is a provider of communications networking equipment, software and services that support the transport, switching, aggregation and management of voice, video and data traffic. The stock recently traded down 6% to hit its bottom bollinger band, a level that has historically been supported. As we’ve discussed, bollinger bands contain 90% of all…

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Ruger Can Add Some Firepower To Your Portfolio: A Short Put Income Strategy

Options Trading StrategiesBy Suzie SmithJanuary 21, 2014

One of my favorite methods for income generation using options is to sell cash backed puts or “naked short puts.”  It is a staple trading method in my portfolio management, and with proper setup and risk management, I find it to be a low maintenance, low risk, and high probability trading strategy. Today I present…

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