Category: options

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...

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

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....

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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...

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The 1500% Trade!

This week I'm going to walk you through how I was able to buy SPX Calendar spreads on March 2nd for $2.75 each and sell them on March 14th for prices ranging from $7.00 to $45.00! That means the worst performing Calendar had a 154% return. The best performer was up over 1500%. In.Eleven.Days. Below...

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Vega Options – 5 Profitable Positions Last Week

Week 2 of The Art of Chart's new option service, Vega Options, is in the books. My portfolio is 5 for 5 with profitable positions and I have shared all of the opening and closing transactions with the twitter group as the week progressed. Vega Options is not a trading service however I do share,...

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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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Vega Options by The Art of Chart

I am pleased to announce our newest option service, Vega Options hosted by Paul Frey. Paul has spent three years with us here at The Art of Chart and has a talent for Options Education. Paul is a 30 year veteran of option trading who has spent most of those years learning and refining his trading skills.Vega...

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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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