Dear Profit Takeover reader, You probably have a good idea of someone who is a disciplined trader. But if you are still getting comfortable with trading or gaining confidence, there are several skills you can learn to manage your trades...

Dear Profit Takeover reader, Yesterday was the wildest trading day of the year. My colleague, Licia Leslie, joined me yesterday to share her expertise in candle analysis and she and I both agreed that the market was teetering on the...

Dear Profit Takeover reader, I pay attention to volatility as an indicator of option pricing.  When a stock’s Historical Volatility (HV) is higher than the Implied Volatility (IV) that means it’s a great time to buy options.  Just like stocks,...

Dear Profit Takeover reader, I wanted to do a breakdown today to help explain when to choose spreads vs butterflies vs straight calls and puts… When a trader buys multiple calls and/or puts at different strike prices simultaneously, that is...

Dear Profit Takeover reader, We have an adjusted trading schedule this week because Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. But just because some people are taking the week off of trading doesn’t mean all traders have to.  This Friday after Thanksgiving especially,...

I’m back.  For the past few days, I haven’t been hosting Profit Takeover on Money Morning LIVE… But I wanted to give you a little peak at what I was doing: Okay, so this wasn’t during working hours. But on...

Dear Profit Takeover reader, Lately, I have enjoyed getting back to options basics to help new traders gain trading confidence.  Once you understand how calls and puts work, and what they are, it’s important to know how you are going...

Dear Profit Takeover reader, Some stocks highly correlate to the market – and there’s a simple term for this market exposure phenomenon… It’s one of my favorite option Greeks: Beta.  Beta is the measure of a stock’s movement relative to...

Dear Profit Takeover reader, One of the fundamentals of trading options is understanding how volatility affects options pricing.  In this video, I broke down the two primary factors I consider when looking at options on individual stocks: Historical Volatility (HV)...

Dear Profit Takeover reader, During yesterday’s live Profit Takeover show, Andrew Giovinazzi, Chief Options Strategist at The Option Pit LLC, joined me to chat about options, volatility, and the trades we are watching… Andrew wrote the program which taught me...