Simpler Options Market Outlook

Another choppy, volatile week is in the books as the markets awaited–and then reacted to–the monthly job numbers. There are a couple of key things to look out for next week, and this is where I’m looking for the SPY to trade towards. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options […]

Friday’s employment data could bring just about anything to the markets tomorrow. Provided we don’t have any sort of calamity, what new entries might make sense at what prices? Let’s look at two big ones for tonight’s review. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. […]

There are cases when it makes sense to buy an outright call or an outright put. It’s easy and understandable. There are other times when it makes sense to do some legging. Let’s check it out. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide […]

In such a low volatility environment, selling premium can be a little tricky. But with good levels and solid risk management, we can still work to maintain a theta positive portfolio. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options traders, led by John F. Carter, guide community members through live trades […]

Mastercard was a result of a recent daily Squeeze scan, but there was some discussion on the direction of the trend. Let’s take a moment to look at the long term, short term, and how we’re looking to play it into next week. Interested in more? At Simpler Trading, an experienced team of professional options […]

Stocks have shorts on the run, that is clear. But what isn’t clear is how much room bulls have to the upside before itchy trigger fingers start pushing the sell button. It really comes down to who is more nervous: bulls or bears. This is what I think will happen. Interested in more? At Simpler […]

The trio of tickers we analyzed last night started coming through for us on Tuesday, but you want to be careful buying at extensions. We use tonight's video to setup 3 new ideas that look primed and ready to pop into the first part of 2016 and beyond.

The Nasdaq continues to lead indexes higher and while I'm not wild about buying the index itself, I am willing to buy these three tickers into January.

At the end of the day, the Fed can talk all they want about how it is time to raise rates and start moving things back to normal. But the truth is, the last thing they want to do is upset the apple cart. Raising rates is for cooling down a hot economy and for fighting inflation. We have neither. Commodity prices are in a deflationary spiral, and a strong dollar would only add downside pressure to that group. How can they suddenly appear hawkish without scaring the markets to death? Simple. They can't. Whatever it is they do tomorrow, they will do it with an eye towards keeping the dollar in its current range, being friendly to stocks, and making sure the bond market doesn't collapse. I think everyone is looking for both bonds and stocks to collapse tomorrow. Which is why I think ultimately both of those markets will destroy shorts.

NFLX is getting ready to have a huge move. The timing may be a little tricky, but you can use these levels to help narrow down your entry

It seems like every time we turnaround this year, the SPX is nearing the 2100 level. Lets take a look at an Iron Fly we setup today in the Live Trading Chat Room.

With a Squeeze firing short on AAPL, the perma-bulls have reasons for concern. Another thing I'm keeping my eye on is oil. I'm going to make a bold prediction that oil may see 31 dollars before it's bottomed and if that happens you'll see panic in the financial sectors. Lets take a further look at this rapidly evolving market and see what's to come.

We'll kick things off tonight with a look at TLT. On a weekly chart, it has come up into some resistance at the top if this down-trending channel. The question is, are we prepped for a bond breakout or breakdown?

The "expected move" is something I tend to spend a lot of time discussing and looking at throughout the trading week. Tonight I'll highlight this in the SPX and why I find this stat so important in my trading

While the Nasdaq is still a bit uncertain it has been leading the way for stocks. While I'm not wild about buying QQQ, some of the stocks inside it look