By JW Jones – www.OptionsTradingSignals.com “The girls all get prettier at closing time.” ~ Mickey Gilley ~ Option trading is not “just the same as stocks.” It turns on the three primal forces ruling an options trader’s world- time to expiration, price of the underlying, and implied volatility. As expiration…
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By JW Jones, OptionsTradingSignals.com My most recent missive discussed some of the nuances of the options Greek, Delta which deals with the change in option price with regard to changes in price of the underlying. Today I would like to examine some of the practical details surrounding the second of…
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By TradersVideoPlaybook.com On Friday, the price action in gold caught the attention of most market participants as gold put in a monster move to the upside in light of risk assets such as the S&P 500 selling off sharply. In fact, gold futures rallied nearly $58 per troy ounce on…
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Understanding Implied Volatility When Trading Options – Part 1
Posted by JW Jones on
June
11th,
2012
By JW Jones, OptionsTradingSignals.com We have recently discussed the importance of routinely considering the value of implied volatility in a historical perspective for each underlying before considering any of the various option positions potentially appropriate for trading a given underlying security, index, or ETF. Failure to consider this data represents…
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By JW Jones – Traders Video Playbook “The selfish they’re all standing in line Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time Me, I figure as each breath goes by I only own my mind.” ~ Pearl Jam, I Am Mine ~ Long time readers know that I have been and remain…
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By JW Jones – www.OptionsTradingSignals.com Apple (AAPL) is one of the most actively traded stocks currently. For the trader who trades only stock, there are two major difficulties in executing trades in this stock: 1. It is breathtakingly expensive. 2. It exhibits periods of neck snapping volatility exposing the trader…
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By JW Jones – www.OptionsTradingSignals.com Friday saw heavy selling pressure coming into risk assets, specifically equities and oil. However, the real driving force behind the selling pressure is likely the result of several unrelated economic/geopolitical events. Clearly the unemployment report had an impact on price action, but strangely enough it…
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By JW Jones – www.OptionsTradingSignals.com In the not-so-distant past arguing that precious metals prices were setup to fall generally elicited a response which was not real pleasant. In fact, during gold’s infamous bull market rally on several occasions I called for pullbacks which regardless of the accuracy of my call…
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