Exploiting Election Week Volatility
Stock options can triple in volatility as election day approaches, creating opportunities for traders to sell when prices skyrocket Expectation of movement in the markets helps determine the price of…
Tom Sosnoff Builds Futures
Investors and traders looking to expand their market activities beyond stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and equity options may want to tune into a recent TradeTalk with tastytrade founder and co-CEO…
Airline Rally Fueled by Vaccine Hopes, Holiday Travel
Holiday-related air travel has pushed TSA screenings to their highest levels since March. The aging of the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare its bottom-line risks. On one hand, a grave…
Q3 Tech Earnings Season: Dates to Know
Earnings season for traders is a bit like March Madness for basketball fans—there’s a ton more action to follow, and typically a lot more drama, too. Case in point, the…
Lady Liberty
In the 2016 presidential election, the Libertarian ticket of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson for president and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld for vice president pulled off the party’s…
Topics
An Election Up for Grabs?
Two methods of foretelling the outcome of presidential elections—both of them long-established and well-regarded—are coming up with different predictions this cycle. One favors Trump and…
Uncertain Indicators
A close look as some historically reliable predictors—some are picking Trump, while others favor Biden An abyss of uncertainty—that’s what the upcoming presidential election represents…
Third-Party Challenge to the Two-Party Schism
In the 2020 election, the Libertarian Party will once again appear on the ballot in all 50 states. With that in mind, Joe Bishop-Henchman, the…
Lady Liberty
In the 2016 presidential election, the Libertarian ticket of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson for president and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld for vice…
Trends
Bulls, Bears & Agnostics
Which party will control the White House and Congress? The dirty little secret is the markets really couldn’t care less. You know Xi Jinping? General…
The Cult of Celebrity Spirits
We value our liquid assets and the master distillers who make them special, so we’re not the least bit impressed when a celebrity attaches his…
Jo Jorgensen: On “Wasted” Votes & Shy Libertarians
In solid red or blue states, one vote is unlikely to change the outcome. Instead, Libertarian presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen suggests using that vote to…
Meet Ryan Grace
Ryan Grace, Chief Market Strategist, dough Office Chicago Age 33 Years trading 15 How did you start trading? Since childhood, I was fascinated with the…
Ballot-Measure Mania
Believe it or not, you actually care about some of the referenda up for a vote on state ballots during the general election—like legalized weed…
America Needs More Parties
Multiparty democracy leads to more broadly legitimate, inclusive and moderate policymaking In a two-party democracy, voters can collectively toggle between a left party and a…
The Antidote to Politics
Ease the anxiety of a fraught electoral season by striving to live in the moment and accepting others Americans tend to view the presidential elections…
Trump and Biden’s Bones
Let’s calculate the probabilities of the septuagenarian presidential candidates making it through a full term or being diagnosed with dementia. The probabilities are expressed as…
Airline Rally Fueled by Vaccine Hopes, Holiday Travel
Holiday-related air travel has pushed TSA screenings to their highest levels since March. The aging of the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare its bottom-line risks.…
Trades
AMZN: Prime Sell
Candlestick chart analysis for intermediate-term trading As the third-largest Nasdaq…
The Stock Market is Apolitical
A casual observer might assume that who wins or loses the presidency would have a profound effect on both the economy and the stock market, but…
US-China Trade Impacts Aussie Dollar
U.S. equity indexes have hit historic highs, but the price action included periods of drawdowns throughout last year. Some drawdowns were related to negative U.S.-China…
Bump Stocks & Biden
On that historic night in November 2016 when Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton for the presidency, traders weren’t glued to news networks but instead to…
Bond Basics
The stock market comes to mind when people think of trading. After all, stocks breed excitement. Equities have been on a tear for most of…
All Your Options
Have a directional assumption about a stock? With options, traders have a much larger range of possibilities than with stocks. Instead of being just “bullish”…
Tactics
Tracking Big Movements in Stock Market Indexes
In just a few weeks, two important events will be revealed to the financial markets: the results of the presidential election and the results of…
Basics of Equity Options Trading
Many investors and traders are comfortable trading equities (i.e. stocks), but fewer are familiar with equity options. Knowledge and awareness of this niche of the…
Just Another Trading Day
Markets don’t move much when America goes to the polls What happens to the markets during a presidential election? Not much. History indicates traders need…
Three Keys to Successful Directional Trading
The management of directional risk is key when trading the financial markets Accurately predicting price direction in the financial markets isn’t an easy proposition, especially…
Blue Chips, Short Puts & Corrections
Since Oct. 12, the S&P 500 is down over 7%, and over that same period, some of the largest capitalized stocks in the United States…
Market Uncertainty and the Fear Gauge
The great thing about stock options is that they provide so much insight into market sentiment. For example, when uncertainty is rising in the stock…
Trading Direction and Volatility—Flavored Ratio Spreads
Ratio spreads allow traders to express opinions on both underlying direction and implied volatility. Using equity options in conjunction with stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)…
Tom Sosnoff Builds Futures
Investors and traders looking to expand their market activities beyond stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and equity options may want to tune into a recent TradeTalk…
Exploiting Election Week Volatility
Stock options can triple in volatility as election day approaches, creating opportunities for traders to sell when prices skyrocket Expectation of movement in the markets…
