Options Trading Webinar: How To Use Our Trading Chat Room To Bank Big Wins You’ve heard about our trading chat room. You’ve read stories about the big wins that members have cashed in on over the past two years. During this week’s options trading webinar, you get to hear from directly Explosive Option’s Chat Room members,…
DetailsDefensive names, like Kimberly Clark, Coca Cola, and Procter & Gamble, are great plays when growth and high beta names are being sold like hot cakes. These types of stocks do not lose much value, even when markets are volatile. Additionally, when money is flowing out of growth and beta names, it tends to flow…
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I often say there are a million reasons to sell, but only one reason to buy. Last week, it seemed that any reason to sell was a good, valid one, and boy, were the sellers out in full force. Time for a little stock market analysis to understand what’s going on. Poor price action and…
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Options Trading Webinar: How to Analyze Volume and Option Flow As a technician, I always have one eye trained on several indicators. They are indispensable guides for my success as an options trader, which is why I blog and talk about them so much. Because I already covered two favorites during previous webinars – sentiment and…
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Nasdaq: GMCR) has been on a wild ride this year, and we have been watching it closely. This week, our vigilance paid off. The Set Up Volatility has been the trademark of Green Mountain for months, and since peaking this year in the $130’s (thanks to a sizable investment by Coca…
DetailsIt appears we are about to see the Federal Reserve raise the funds rate for the first time in more than eight years. The rate has been at/near zero for an astoundingly long period of time. Yet, there is fear out there, most of it unfounded. What if the Fed is so hawkish that they…
Detailsby Abigail Stevenson With crude prices threatening to go into complete free fall and Kinder Morgan butchering its dividend, Jim Cramer decided to take a closer look at what could be next for the oil business. Could it be possible that Wall Street has become too negative on this group? To find out, Cramer turned…
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Options Trading Webinar: What to Do When Volatility Shrinks Since the market dipped in August, volatility levels have been very high. They’ve gone down a bit here and there, but they remain elevated due to fear around interest rate increases. The Fed hasn’t explicitly stated when or by how much rates will go up, and…
DetailsSemiconductor stocks are the bellwether for the technology industry and overall growth. When these stocks are moving higher, we usually see other big tech names follow their lead, such as Apple, Microsoft, and IBM. Leading the latest charge is Avago Technologies, an analog III based producer of chip technology for wireless and other segments. The…
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One of the four fears of trading is the fear of missing out, a topic that the late Mark Douglas wrote about in his book, “Trading in the Zone.” According to Douglas, fear of missing out is the most serious of the four fears, and I have to agree. The regret of missing out on…
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