In option trading a straddle play is created when two option trades are opened in the same underlying asset at the same strike price at the same expiration date but…

An Iron Condor trading strategy is an option play that is created with two vertical spreads. An Iron Condor is a combination of both a put option spread and a call…

A ‘Poor Man’s’ Covered Call option play is a way for an option trader to structure a very similar type of risk/reward ratio as an ordinary covered call but with…

In Black–Scholes option pricing model, the implied volatility or ‘IV’ of an option contract is the cost embedded in the option of the volatility of the underlying instrument that it…

This is a guest post by Jake @TrendSpider.  In this weekend blog post, we take a look at the continued wild ride the markets took last week. Make sure to…

The Maximum Pain theory in the options market or simply ‘Max pain’ tries to explain that market prices for stocks and commodities will many times settle at the approximate price…

A market trend is the direction that prices are moving in for a specific timeframe. A market can move in an uptrend, a downtrend, and other times just go sideways…

In trading, a ‘Bull Trap’ is considered a rally in price that creates a false momentum signal  to go long because the downtrend looks like it is over and reversing…

In trading and investing, risk management is defined as the process of understanding, identifying, adjusting and managing all of the potential risks that an account is exposed to so the size of losses and drawdowns are minimized for…

This is a video guest post by Jake @TrendSpider.