Burning Man
A former floor trader shares sights—and insights—from his 15th visit to The Playa By Alan Matthew Burning Man, which bills itself as “the place to find out who you are…
Picture Tomorrow
What will everyday life look like in five, 10 or 25 years? Writer and filmmaker Luke Kingma of Futurism Studios (owned by renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity University) teamed up…
Don’t Fear Volatility: Reap It!
Modern Halloween traditions are steeped in “fear,” which unofficially makes the holiday a celebration of volatility. That’s because most traditional financial media outlets usually talk about the appearance of volatility…
Oil Spreads
Trading the financial markets is like any business endeavor—there are nuances to the game which vary across different geographical regions of the globe. For example, equity options aren’t yet widely…
The Nationals have a $185 million salary cap, and something in common with Luckbox
While fans of the Washington Nationals were celebrating their team’s first World Series victory Thursday night, the editorial team at Luckbox was celebrating for a different reason. The team announced…
Topics
The Nationals have a $185 million salary cap, and something in common with Luckbox
While fans of the Washington Nationals were celebrating their team’s first World Series victory Thursday night, the editorial team at Luckbox was celebrating for a…
Picture Tomorrow
What will everyday life look like in five, 10 or 25 years? Writer and filmmaker Luke Kingma of Futurism Studios (owned by renowned futurist Ray…
50 Years to Run for Cover
Not every luckbox reader will live to see the year 2069, so here’s a preview To mark the recent opening of the Samsung destination store…
Facing Intel Inequality
Coding and STEM skills aren’t enough to keep humans relevant in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Swedish-Australian futurist and innovation strategist Anders Sörman-Nilsson averages 240…
Trends
Volatility: Trading’s Best Crystal Ball
Volatility provides a clue about what the future may hold for a stock Long-term stock trader? Short-term options trader? Medium-term money machine? No matter how…
WeWork’s Neumanns Still Have Each Other
Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann and his wife, Rebekah Paltrow Neumann, may not seem like luckboxes at first glance. It wasn’t long ago that they…
Handicapping the 2019 US Tennis Open
In the world of sports, European football, cricket, American football, baseball, and basketball usually get the most international coverage. Those sports possess legions of rabid…
Race out to find this Rye
For whiskey explorers, discovery is the easy part. There is always something that you haven’t tried, but the results are often disappointing. Happening upon Pinhook…
Psychic Poker Play
Players can predict an opponent’s range of possible hands by following a few simple tips World-class poker players often seem to “know” the hole cards…
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Futurism podcasts aren’t for everyone. With work, family, friends and finances vying for attention, it’s difficult to justify carving out time to listen to what…
La Dolce Vita: THC-infused Sugar
This first-mover cannabis sweetener hopes to earn $3 million in first-year revenues. Shoogies, a (THC) cannabis-infused sweetener, is hitting dispensary shelves throughout California. It’s available…
Swimming in Sales
Relentless ambition turns a solo act side hustle into a multi million-dollar business A dream job wasn’t enough for Emily Vaca—she always had a part-time…
Meet Pete Mulmat
Host of Splash Into Futures on the tastytrade network Home Winnetka, Ill. Age 57 Years trading 37 How did you start trading? I studied economics in…
Burning Man
A former floor trader shares sights—and insights—from his 15th visit to The Playa By Alan Matthew Burning Man, which bills itself as “the place to…
Greta’s Guitars
Sam and Jake Kiszka, two of GVF’s three brothers set aside time with luckbox to discuss music, fame and influences. Sam plays bass and keyboards…
Future Shtick
Psychic, or psyched out? My visit to a fortune teller When luckbox asked me to visit a psychic for this future-focused issue, I felt “shook.”…
Amazon Doesn’t Sell Sculpted Physiques
Staying fit requires discipline and commitment; the same can be said for profits in trading. Instant gratification and immediate satisfaction. If the explosion of Facebook…
Meet the Robots: Aibo, Jibo, Leo & Cleo
This robot roundup includes one recently deceased, one arisen from the dead and two that are gainfully employed
8 Favorite Fidget Toys
The anxiety-related consumer products market is expected to grow to $7.5 billion by 2023. In the Fall of 2016, two Kickstarter campaigns were launched with…
Trades
AMZN: Prime Sell
Candlestick chart analysis for intermediate-term trading As the third-largest Nasdaq…
Forecasting Price Patterns
Every culture develops its own brand of futurism. From time immemorial, people have spun tales of clairvoyance, created magical totems like crystal balls and paid…
5 Tips for Choppy Markets
These markets are untradeable—there’s too much uncertainty. I’m getting chopped up.” Does that sound familiar? It might. Portfolio managers and traders have been expressing those…
What’s Really Going on Inside That Mutual Fund?
In the land of the free, the financial markets offer a nearly limitless choice of stocks. That makes isolating which equities to purchase a painstaking…
Inversion in Treasuries: Two Ways to Trade
A savvy futures trader’s take on the markets Rip van Winkle slept for 20 years, but that was 200 years ago. Today, van Winkle’s smart…
Worst-Case Scenarios Call for Covered Calls
Fear of losing money sidelines too many would-be investors. They’re afraid they sell at the bottom. So, what would be the worst-case scenario if someone bought…
Tactics
The Magic of 45: Optimal Short Options Trade Duration
Experienced traders understand there’s no magic crystal ball when it comes to accurately predicting the financial markets. That’s why smart traders focus on approaches that…
Don’t Fear Volatility: Reap It!
Modern Halloween traditions are steeped in “fear,” which unofficially makes the holiday a celebration of volatility. That’s because most traditional financial media outlets usually talk…
Making the Leap to Futures
Understanding the differences and similarities between futures and equities Even investors with plenty of experience trading equities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) may find the leap…
Short Volatility and the Short Delta Bias
The S&P 500 is now roughly twice as high as it was before the correction observed during the Great Recession. In the spring of 2007,…
Short Volatility
One of the paramount goals when trading the financial markets is to maximize potential gains. Secondarily, most traders would likely prefer to minimize risk. If…
Sizing Up Futures Contracts
Most traders find old school futures contracts too big for their accounts To trade futures, begin by understanding the sizes of the products, the expected moves…
Taking Futures to a New Level
Advanced uses of futures include scalping, pairs trading and delta hedging Futures contracts offer retail traders some strategic advantages that aren’t available with stocks and…
Managing Directional Risk
While many traders focus on statistics-based volatility positions that leverage the mean reversion philosophy, it’s important to recognize that even these types of exposures can…
The (Broken Wing) Butterfly Effect
Trading a BWB at price extremes affords the trader room for the trend to continue and zero risk, if the trend reverses. When markets reach…
