Simpler Options Market Outlook

The easiest trades are when a major index and the stock that you are watching are both in alignment. That is not the case today. What to do? Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

The key to trading options is understanding when to go directional and when to sell premium. What kind of market do we have right now? Which strategy is more appropriate? Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

TSLA reported after the bell and premium sellers look to clearly be ahead. Let’s talk about a few things in regards to management of that, and a few ideas we can tie in for BIDU tomorrow. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

Just because they’re my favorites doesn’t mean they’re going to do what I want, but having certain points of criteria met tends to give us higher probability trades. Let’s review three of them as we head into Wednesday. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

GS and AAPL have very similar setups as we head into tomorrow. Let’s review both of those and look at another play in GS that generates some positive theta over the 3 day weekend. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

Weekly income trades are one of my favorites, and I trade them totally different from the directional trades. Here’s why. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

These are my favorite risk to reward income trades setting up for this week. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

Heading into monthly expiration, volatility is one of the most important things to take into consideration. There’s not a ton of it out there right now, but knowing when to pick one ticker over another can be the difference between a win and a loss when Friday rolls around. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

I like doing these free videos in a way that you can see the thought process prior to the announcement, the results of earnings, and how we manage our spreads around it. Today we’re looking at that in EXPE, ATVI, and NVDA. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

We had another group of companies due to report earnings after the close. The butterflies look to be the most effective at current prices and we’ll have a few verticals to work around. Let’s take a look. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

FB released earnings after the close today, and if we can hold this bid, the stock will make a new high tomorrow. Here’s a review of the setup prior to the report, what we saw in it, and some thoughts around a few spreads. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

The market likes to ebb and flow, and carefully lull us into complacency before its next major move. Right now, are we in the lulling phase or are we about to see some power? Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

We had a couple of setups today that revolved around earnings. The text book management of the worked out well, and if you still have some of them these are helpful points to consider. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

Crude has been interesting to follow here lately, especially with its resilience in the face of a strong dollar. There are a few ways to play this directly and a few that should follow along with any strength in energy. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.

With any setup, some moves are solid, others weak, and others are off the chart. Are there ways to tell what kind of move it is going to be? Let’s take a look at these two setups in ULTA and SHOP and find out. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades daily while explaining strategies, significant market opportunities, and daily trading lessons. Together, newbies and experienced traders alike share knowledge, experience and support one another in this active trading forum.