Volatility Trading Strategies

VTS Community, I'm going to do another adjustment today on my current SPY Long Tactical Strangle  (trade # 36)  in the Discretionary...

VTS Community, In a blog post a few days ago I showed a chart of a world map and left it as a little teaser for something I'd circle back...

VTS Community, I had myself a pretty busy weekend going through everyones emails about potential option trades on CVS.  I'm sorry I...

The 4th quarter of 2018 saw the largest crash since the financial crisis. Now that the markets have made a decent recovery since then, I...

VTS Community, As you may have noticed, I often times circle back to the same tickers for my trades several times over again.  I think...

VTS Community, Today I'm going to go through a full example of how to perform stock replacement using options.  For those of you who...

2018 was a rough year for most investors. In this video I show some benchmark performance along with my own Volatility Trading...

As I showed yesterday, a cumulative look at the volatility markets now shows a dip below the 50th percentile line for my Volatility...

VTS Community, Today is just an adjustment day on a few open Discretionary Options Strategy trades.  This is a very normal process...

VTS community, 2018 was the first negative year for the stock market since 2008, so needless to say it was a rough one for most investors....

VTS Community, Now that I have found myself getting back into a few volatility ETP trades, I have noticed the number of questions coming...

VTS Community, Today is a good opportunity to show everyone what happens to the VIX futures term structure curve around expiration.  I...

On the 1 year anniversary of the termination of everybody's favourite volatility product, the XIV, I want to recap what happened and also...

VTS Community, The current SPY Tactical Strangle I have open within the Discretionary Options Strategy needs to be adjusted.  When...

The Total Portfolio Solution is my answer to the widespread problem of underperformance and high fees within the financial industry. ...

Setting goals and then achieving them gives our lives meaning, but it can be tough to stick to the process sometimes. Allow me to share...

VTS Community, The Tactical Balanced Strategy has been riding that IEF Bonds train for a little while now with good success.  Entered the...

One of the trading rules that has served me well over the years is, I only allow myself a once annual audit of my trading strategies to...

VTS Community, The S&P 500 is right at a very strong resistance point, so it's one of those situations that option traders like to look...

VTS Community, It's a good time to get into an old favourite of mine, within the VTS Discretionary Options Strategy, an Iron Condor. ...

VTS Community, With S&P down today, volatility still elevated, I still don't quite have the green light to get into long MDY stocks or...

The VIX index is the most commonly referenced volatility metric out there. Financial news outlets, blogs, twitter, it's talked about...

VTS Community, This is a follow up to the discussion yesterday regarding the very flat VIX futures term structure.  Recall I showed how...

In this episode of the Global Investor Podcast, I review the -20% S&P 500 crash last quarter, but highlight why it's still a bull market....