Most Traders Pick the Wrong Expiration. Here Is the One Simple Rule That Fixes It Every Time
Trader Mike argues most retail options traders pick the wrong expiration and recommends using regular monthly expirations (third Friday cycles) for most strategies because they offer far superior liquidity, tighter bid-ask spreads, and much higher open interest than off-cycle weekly contracts. Weekly expirations are useful primarily for earnings plays, where near-term implied volatility dominates and premium reflects event-driven moves. Longer-dated monthly options show lower implied volatility per day and more time value, reducing sensitivity to short-term IV spikes and improving the probability of directional trades. Using monthly cycles also simplifies multi-leg trades tied to a specific futures contract settlement month.
How Many Clues Can You Spot?
The video analyzes USD/CAD technicals after an upside breakout from a backward-leaning ascending triangle that failed to decisively violate recent highs, leaving short-term directional confirmation absent. Price retraced into the consolidation zone while the RSI swung from overbought to oversold,...
How To Use Volume + Fibonacci For Profit Targets
The video demonstrates using technical confluence—head-and-shoulders pattern completion, AB=CD measured moves, and multiple Fibonacci levels—to identify profit-target zones. The presenter overlays Fibonacci extensions and retracements (notably 61.8% and 78.6%) from macro and micro swings to create a clustered target area,...
The Market Is Pricing Risk to the Upside. In 8 Years of Trading This Has Never Happened Before
The video highlights an unusual options market condition: call skew, where call premiums exceed put premiums, signaling that traders are pricing risk to the upside. The host notes that the S&P 500 (SPY) has just jumped to a new all‑time high...
10 Rules Every Day Trader Needs
The presenter lays out 10 practical rules for day traders centered on strict risk management and professional discipline. He emphasizes setting a firm maximum weekly loss, dividing it by five to get a daily loss limit, and then splitting the...
Options Corner: HPE All-Time High Run Into Earnings
HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) surged to a new 52‑week high, up 116% year‑over‑year, prompting options analysts to dissect the move ahead of its earnings report. Technicians highlighted a steep upward channel culminating in a bullish breakout above the 38.58 level, with...
Active Trading Is Surging
The video highlights a pronounced surge in active trading since the COVID‑19 pandemic, emphasizing that both retail investors and financial professionals are increasingly turning to leveraged and inverse exchange‑traded funds (ETFs) as core components of their trading strategies. Compound’s research shows...
The Gamma Squeeze Cheat Sheet Every Trader Needs 📊 #optionstrading #gex #gammaexposure #gammasqueeze
The video presents a concise cheat sheet for traders on gamma exposure, explaining the concept of a gamma flip point where dealers shift from net short to net long gamma. It distinguishes negative gamma—typically arising from put positions below the...
Chris Vermeulen: 'Parabolic' Bubble, Big Pullback for Gold & The Financial Reset
Chris Vermeulen, chief market strategist at TechnicalTraders.com, warned that the current market surge is heavily skewed toward equities—particularly technology and micro‑cap stocks—while precious metals like gold and silver are on the brink of a steep correction. He highlighted that the...
Equities Spotlight: Why the Rally Still Has Room to Run
Equities have entered a hyperaggressive rally led by tech and AI-exposed large caps, with the S&P and Nasdaq outpacing the Dow because of their heavy tech weightings. Markets have largely shrugged off geopolitical friction over Iran and recent mixed fundamentals,...
The Dollar Is About to Wake Up: DXY, EURUSD, GBPUSD
Justin Bennett reviews the current state of the US dollar index (DXY) and its major cross‑pairs, arguing that the recent two‑week sideways consolidation is unusually long and likely to end. He points to historical patterns and the tight range on...
Equity Index Futures Hit New Records as Market Volatility Dropped. 5/28/26
Equity index futures hit fresh highs as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq set new records—S&P up roughly 0.5% and Nasdaq about 1%—while the Dow remained flat, driven by strength in tech names like Snowflake (up nearly 40%) and several chip...
PCE & GDP - MAY 28- Stock Market LIVE, Live Trading, Stock News
The livestream centered on the release of U.S. PCE inflation and GDP numbers, while the host dissected the day’s earnings and geopolitical headlines that were moving the market. Snowflake’s earnings beat sparked a 1,200% post‑market surge, and oil held near $90...
Ignore These S&R
The speaker advises traders to ignore lower support-and-resistance levels when order flow becomes increasingly aggressive, arguing that aggressive buyers will absorb discounted offers and fill trades rapidly. Instead, traders should prioritize timing and use larger position sizes when the market...
Playing Against the House — The Hidden Power of Dealer Positioning | SpotGamma
SpotGamma teased a new education event and equity flows course focused on 'playing against the house' by teaching traders to read dealer positioning, gamma, and option-driven flows that often dictate abrupt market moves. The presentation framed markets through casino and...