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Market Insights: Why I Trade Options [Part 2]
Welcome back! I took a one-week hiatus from these Market Insights posts, but we’re back in full swing. The markets have been going absolutely crazy these last couple of weeks, so there’s definitely plenty to talk about!However, I want to focus on wrapping up part 2 of the “why I trade options” discussion that I […]
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Market Insights: Why I Trade Options [Part 1]
Welcome back dear reader! Last week, I took a look at this chart pattern on the S&P 500:I talked about pattern recognition, and how the S&P 500 had continually bounced off of its 50-day moving average. Now that it had pulled back to the 50-day moving average again, it seemed like a great buying opportunity. […]
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Market Insights: Something Volatile This Way Comes
September volatility is in full swing this week after an extended weekend. All major indexes are down, from the S&P 500 (SPX):…to the Dow Jones (DJI):…the Russell 2000 (RUT):…and the NASDAQ 100 (NDX): Tech is the least scathed at the moment, as the tech giants did fairly well on Tuesday, although they have taken a […]
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Market Insights: Trade Stocks like an Airline Trades Customers
This morning I’m writing to you from the terminal at Denver International Airport as I wait for my flight to Miami. During my wait, a normal, everyday occurrence got me thinking about trading and financial markets, inspiring me to this post.As I arrived at the gate, there was another flight departing for Orlando. And of […]
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Market Insights: Weekly Update
The stock market has been eerily calm over the past few trading days. Despite a rocky start to last week, the S&P 500 ended up making new all-time highs by Friday.This, in turn, drove the VIX lower: (Charts courtesy of TradingView.com)Even though volatility has had a small bounce since Friday’s lows, we’re still not seeing […]
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Market Insights: Divergence
Here at Tradesmart, we are always on the outlook for the best teachers, presenters, and market-based content to deliver to you, and a little over a year ago, Chris Burgess partnered up with us to teach a few of his classes. Since then, we have constantly been impressed by his content and thorough market analysis. […]
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Market Insights: Outperformance
We often use the term outperformance to mean that an individual is getting better returns than the average in the stock market. So if the S&P 500 is up 1% and your portfolio is up 2% in the same period, then you are outperforming the market. However, Outperformance can be a much broader topic than […]
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