All posts by Daniel Darrow
Options In Play – Good Consolidations And Bad Consolidations
Consolidations create great tradeable patterns on stocks and they get me into a lot of different option trades. However, not all consolidations are equal and sometimes it can work against the pattern.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – The Next Possible Vaccine Play
PFE, BNTX, MRNA…everyone is familiar with these 3 stocks now because they are leading the charge on the covid vaccine rollout. There is another major name with possible news coming soon and it could be a nice trade opportunity.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – Using Charts To Guide Expiration
One of the toughest elements of trading options is selecting the right time frame for your trade. Too little time and you miss the move. Too much time and you remove some of the profit potential.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – Earnings On The Radar Week Of 12/18/20
Earnings slow down this week as we enter the holiday stretch. However, there are a couple big names scheduled to release results worth watching.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – Bend But Don’t Break On Tech
After 10 days up in a row, QQQ finally had a pullback yesterday. Now the question is…where do we go from here and what to watch for.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – Rolling And TME
Rolling up/down options is a great way to manage trades when they move in your favor. TME is developing nicely and today was a good example of how I approach rolling.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – Earnings On The Radar Week Of 12/11/20
More Tech and more Retail. We are into the middle of December and there are still plenty of big names reporting earnings.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – Respect Your Stops
Nobody likes getting stopped out of a trade but in the long term, stops help prevent trades for turning from bad to worse. That’s why it is important to have rules in place to manage positions.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – Keeping The “Day” In Day Trade
I am pretty active day trading options and most of those trades revolve around short term (weekly) contracts. The important thing to remember is that the margin for error is low with these contracts so buying/selling intraday with tight stops is important.
Continue Reading -->Options In Play – New Highs Don’t Always Come Easy
And just like that, QQQ are back at their 52 week high. The question is…do we head higher from here or do we pull back again?
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