Well, we're on Day 1 of the Santa Rally and so far the fat man is delivering bigly!

Speaking of deliveries, it's likely your 2021 Holiday Season featured the services of our trade today.

Let's get right to it!

One nice thing about recent stock market volatility is that there are some bullish setups we can take advantage of with some clearly defined nearby risk levels, which give us entries with solid reward-to-risk scenarios.

And of course, in a...

The wild ride in the stock markets this week is nothing if not revealing to us where the relative strength is hidden!

There's always a silver lining to volatility. The vulnerable stocks get exposed, the weak hands get shaken out, and what we'...

With the S&P 500 wrestling with the 4700 level, I've been turning my eyes to some of our more favorable bullish setups.

On Friday, the ASC team published their latest...

There is always a silver lining to slippery stock markets like the one we experienced over the last couple of weeks: Stocks that are overdue for pullbacks get them -- and sometimes hard. Meanwhile, the stocks where there is strong...

Options premiums still remain elevated across the board and therefore I continue looking for delta-neutral premium-selling strategies to implement.

We have to take whatever the market is offering. The recent downward price action has created a...

While volatility remains elevated, I remain on the hunt for appropriate vehicles to sell premium in.

We sold premium in IWM earlier this week. Today, I'm going to...

JC and I traveled to India together a couple years back to meet with Indian prop and options traders and to lead discussions at a few events. It was an amazing experience to be able to view risk through the eyes of traders that come from very...

This past weekend, I finished reading an illuminating book titled "Empires of Light" (see what I did there?), that dug into the origins of modern electric power as viewed through the lens of...

A stock recently got on our radar after share prices exploded higher following a recent earnings report.

Now that the market has given players in this stock some time to marinate in the new reality presented during this last quarterly report,...

Well, once again we saw a little downside action this week and the noise-makers on the twitter and the teevee got all revved up. Cool. Whatever drives clicks, you maniacs.

Meanwhile, those of us who keep our heads about us while others are...