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Paul Frey is a 30+ year trader with experience in equities, options, and futures. In addition to trading he manages Vega Options providing option educational services to new and experienced traders who are looking for improved results. He teaches strategies and techniques that reduce or even eliminate the initial cost of a trade while still maintaining potential future profits.

Vega Options Weekend Review for January 26th

The first week of The Art of Chart's new option service, Vega Options, is in the books. We've had a number of people take advantage of the 14 Day Free Trial to test out the service. This blog post will review some of the actual tweets from the past week. First, since it is a...

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Hi Ho Silver Away

I am currently holding a long-term bullish GOLD (Barrick Gold Corp) position which has a 98% probability of profit. Now I am not a probability trader but I know some of you are so I like to mention it occasionally. I arrived at this position by buying (25) Jan2021 GOLD 20 Calls on 11/18 and...

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PayPal Double Calendar

PayPal offers an interesting opportunity this week. Price appears to be forming a bullish ascending triangle on the daily chart so a long position seems warranted but there is always the potential for failure. Is there a option trade structure to minimize risk and maximize gains? Let's see what might work best in the current...

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Making Volatility Pay

This week could see several catalysts for a volatility trade including FOMC and potentially an announcement about the trade tariffs. Volatility could certainly spike higher if there is a negative surprise or it could drift lower if those news events are considered market friendly. Of course, it could also be unchanged by the end of...

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Locking In Profits

"So, that was an interesting month. That is, if you think crazy is interesting! Since crazy is probably going to stick around for awhile, let's take a look at how the Options For Income portfolio did in May." That was the opening paragraph from a blog post I did at the end of May. Here...

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Options For Income – May 2019 Update

So, that was an interesting month. That is, if you think crazy is interesting! Since crazy is probably going to stick around for awhile, let's take a look at how the Options For Income portfolio did in May. Up 8.61% on the month, 4.36% in the last week and 2.70% in the last day. Obviously...

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Options for Income – Trading EEM

This public post of the Options for Income service is designed to provide an overview of what the service offers as well as highlighting a previous trade that we have made within the service. Whether or not you are currently an options trader or would just like to learn more about the subject, you have...

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Options Trading and Investing Service for the Week of July 23rd

The Options Trading and Investing service provides perspective on high quality setups and option trading strategies. We carefully select these setups due to their quality and profit potential and we report back on results. In the weekend free webinar I review current portfolio performance and I also discuss techniques that I utilize to help reduce risk and,...

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Options Trading and Investing Service for the Week of July 16th

The Options Trading and Investing service provides perspective on high quality setups and option trading strategies. We carefully select these setups due to their quality and profit potential and we report back on results. In the weekend free webinar I review current portfolio performance and I also discuss techniques that I utilize to help reduce risk and,...

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Options Trading and Investing Service for the Week of July 9th

The Options Trading and Investing service provides perspective on high quality setups and option trading strategies. We carefully select these setups due to their quality and profit potential and we report back on results. In the weekend free webinar I review current portfolio performance and I also discuss techniques that I utilize to help reduce risk and,...

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