Category: Stock Options

I have had many traders asking me for my top option book picks over the years so I thought it would be a great blog topic. In my journey through…

          The following metrics are based on buying weekly October 20th options and just playing the earnings announcement only. Buying  October 27 or September options and…

            Charts are my best mentors and moving averages are my best teachers. Entering into Monday Morning I am long Apple with an in the…

          This morning one of the best short play stocks of the year gapped up on earnings and provided a new opportunity for beat up longs…

Who is Dan Zanger? Dan Zanger is the modern day version of the legender trader Nicolas Darvas. His mother Elaine loved the stock market and Dan would often watch the…

          With most indexes breaking out to multi-year highs after the European debt crises appearing to  be kicked farther down the road for now we are…

Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril. Chinese proverb. Stock options are not lottery tickets, chips in a casino, or a…

Weekly options are very powerful tools in the hands of a trader that understands them but can do serious damage in the account of a trader that uses them to gamble.…

              The strange thing about trading is the vast majority of traders lose money. Most studies put it at 90% as the amount of…

The following excerpt is taken from my book Show me Your Options co authored with Christopher Ebert the “Option Scientist”. (The following chat is set inside a facebook group in…