April 2020 – Page 2 – The Art Of Chart

Month: April 2020

Silent Spring

My last few posts have been a coronavirus COVID-19 series, so I'm putting in the links here so as to refer back to them easily for now. These are the ten posts so far. I'm planning to finish this series with a post on the likely economic impact of COVID-19 over the coming year, and...

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of April 12th

The Weekly Call provides perspective on high-quality setups and trading strategies focused in the Commodity world.. My current performance shows a 416% return since October 2016. The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate how to swing trade futures using our methodology to select high-quality setups and manage the trade with our risk management approach....

Using a Calendar Spread to exploit High Volatility in the S&P500

This is a blog post for Paragon options showing one of our current live trades using the S&P500. This strategy is a calendar put spread using a long 2700 ES Futures put out in June and selling weekly options against it. The S&P 500 weekly options currently have a very high implied volatility and so...

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for April 12th

I plan to cover just three cryptos every week in this post: Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. These instruments provide trading opportunities with out sized gains. I hope the analysis presented here helps you profit in these instruments. BTCUSD — Looking for continuation higher this week after a retest into Monthly pivot. 6499 is support and...

The Second Mouse

My last few posts have been a coronavirus COVID-19 series, so I'm putting in the links here so as to refer back to them easily for now. These are the nine posts so far. 18th February - Peering Through The Fog Around Coronavirus COVID-19 24th February - Some Genuine Coronavirus Numbers Coming Through 28th February...

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of April 5th

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for April 5th

I plan to cover just three cryptos every week in this post: Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. These instruments provide trading opportunities with out sized gains. I hope the analysis presented here helps you profit in these instruments. BTCUSD — No change in forecast from last week, the base trend line should continue to hold and...

33% Return in under 24 hours

On Paragon Options we placed a trade in the S&P 500 via ES futures options on the 31st March 2020 and closed out only 1 day later on the 1st April 2020. This was a low risk spread that was set up for a credit and that made over $10,000 in less than 24 hours....

The Risk-Free Option Plan

Just 4 days after establishing a TWTR position I had the opportunity to eliminate all cost in the position while still maintaining a potential maximum profit of $6,000. How can a ZERO dollar cost position have a potential $6,000 profit? Keep reading below and you'll see the answer to that question. First, I have to...

Traders Boot Camp Starting April 13th

Improve Your Trading Success, Learn Live from Experienced Traders! I am pleased to announce the next Traders Boot Camp which begins April 13th!! The Traders Boot Camp is designed for beginners to seasoned traders who want to improve their trading success. We will have various training sessions for traders of various skill sets. All of...