by Chad Shoop | Apr 30, 2021 | Earnings, Education, Investing Basics, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
Regular Weekly Options Corner readers know by now that there’s no “one size fits all” approach to trading options. But the most important part of trading options is following a profitable strategy. That’s our common theme here in the Weekly Options Corner. Now, no...
by Chad Shoop | Apr 23, 2021 | Buy and Hold, GameStop, Investing, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
If you were paying attention to the markets in January this year, you probably heard a lot about GameStop (NYSE: GME). It rose thousands of percent in less than 12 months. After that, it spectacularly crashed, only to chop up and down over the past few months. The...
by Chad Shoop | Apr 16, 2021 | Education, Investing Basics, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, volatility, Weekly Options Corner
By now, you know I take a systematic approach to trading. I spend several years developing my strategies to make sure they find consistently profitable trades. That’s why one of my three rules when trading options is to follow a proven system. So, I know an occasional...
by Chad Shoop | Apr 9, 2021 | Diversified Investments, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
Options are all about leverage. They give traders the opportunity to make big gains, or big losses, by playing short-term price swings in the market. But our topic today, weekly options, take leverage and short-term trading to a whole new level. Essentially, weekly...
by Chad Shoop | Apr 2, 2021 | Earnings, Education, Options Trading, Time Value, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
Today, we’re going to discuss the most complicated part about options — time value. I’ve received a few questions from readers about this concept over the past couple weeks. So, I want to get right to it… The most important part of time value is the decay in price....
