by Chad Shoop | Sep 13, 2021 | AGI, BK, CARS, LI, Options Trading, REAL, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters, Unusual Options Activity
Welcome to Unusual Options Activity! Even though last week was a short trading week, the market was on the move with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index hitting their fourth straight down day on Thursday. Both fell about 2% on the week. To be clear,...
by Chad Shoop | Aug 30, 2021 | AMAT, ASO, DVN, LUV, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters, Unusual Options Activity
We’ve been doing Unusual Options Activity each week for three months now. It’s been a wild ride… And a lot of these trades have been major winners. We’ve already seen a few short-term banking plays deliver gains of 68%, 130%, and 211%. Two other options we’ve...
by Chad Shoop | Aug 26, 2021 | Options Trading, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters, Unusual Options Activity, WYNN
More than anything, I’ll never forget all the care that was put into the little details. The architecture, the chocolate fountains, the massive rooms. They even rotated their flowers practically every day. It was my first trip to Las Vegas back in 2010 and I was blown...
by Chad Shoop | Aug 23, 2021 | AIG, Options Trading, SKLZ, TGT, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters, Unusual Options Activity
Let’s kick this Monday off right with some more unusual options activity… My radar showed a lot of bearish AND bullish activity last week. That doesn’t help us much direction-wise in this choppy market. Clearly investors are adjusting to the broader issues...
by Chad Shoop | Aug 19, 2021 | BEN, Options Trading, RE, Relative Rotation Graph, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters, Unusual Options Activity, WFC, XLF
The Dow dropped as much as 500 points Tuesday… before recovering much of the decline. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq took similar heat, then closed off their lows. Then yesterday, the S&P 500 fell over 1%. And as I write this morning, it’s set to open close to 1%...
by Chad Shoop | Aug 16, 2021 | HD, Lyft, M, MU, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters, Unusual Options Activity
“The trend is your friend.” You’ll hear me and Mike say that a lot. I think he likes to add, “until it’s not.” What he means is you can only ride a trend until it breaks. Then you have to adapt. This can be frustrating for traders, especially ones that like to be...
