Strategy & Process

It’s not a crime to take bullish short-term trades while medium term bearish…. Our lead indicator, NYSI, turned bearish 2/8 and has turned out to be a great lead indicator once again as it was a time I exited my longs and took April SPY puts. That same signal turned...

As we enter a new trading year, I think it is important to take some time to write a mini guide on the best ways to use the OptionsHawk website. We already have an in-depth member guide that is sent with new subscriptions and accessible on the site but this is going...

Like many things in life we tend to over-complicate trading without just focusing on the end-goal, making money. There are thousands of different strategies and approaches to trading all trying to lead to the same outcome. I have long considered a more goal-oriented...

You often hear during earnings season that putting on options positions for earnings reports is like playing roulette, implying a low probability of winning.  You also often hear a lot of people who do not hold stock/option positions through earnings which has never...

I recently saw a tweet that noted “fundamentals tell me what to buy, and technicals tell me when & where.”  I complete agree with this philosophy, though an extreme generalization.  Technical analysis is a great tool for choosing entry/exit points, setting...

The strategy of trading options flow has become a lot more popular since I posted that article, but now to a point where there is a lot of sloppy work, and most of it is focused on the what instead of the why. This has caused a push for quantity over quality, hundreds...

A discussion today on Twitter led me to thinking this could be a helpful topic to discuss… It is Friday, so will keep this short, and hopefully sweet. I often will note "inverted" or "bullish" skew when discussing a stock’s options IV (Implied Volatility) profile. I...

As Hurricane Sandy bears down on New England I figure I had some time to put together a quick educational post with two examples from last week, focusing on trading stocks/options following an earnings reaction.I often utilize my analysis of options activity to...

As many of my followers know by now I monitor the options market for large Institutional trades or unusual trading (5X+ daily average) in a stock’s options.  I field a lot of questions about this style of trading and wanted to write up an overview to better explain my...

One of the many advantages of trading options is that you do not need to pick a direction to have a winning trade, you can use indicators and statistics to set up high probability strategies that are Delta Neutral.Each week in the Options Hunter Newsletter I put out...