Volatility Trading Strategies

VTS Community, Regardless of how far along in your journey you are to understanding volatility markets, whether that's several years or...

VTS Community, There's no question that the most important part of my work by far, and what I take most seriously is giving people the...

Emerging markets (EEM) have been crushed for over a 20% loss since the highs in January. For options traders this presents an...

VTS Community, * New Discretionary Options trade today * While volatility isn't what we consider high, it's just high enough that we can...

For many people, buying a home or renting and investing instead is one of the biggest decisions of their investing lives. After all, we...

Introducing my vol step strategy. This exciting options trading strategy involving shorting UVXY the smart way has been a nice profit...

The Tactical Balanced Strategy is our "core" portfolio position with a 50% allocation. It rotates between positions in stocks bonds and...

Based on past questionnaires I gather roughly half the community prefers articles and the other half videos so I will also be putting out...

VTS Community, Todays trade is in the VTS Discretionary Strategy.  You know I like to fully explain all trade types so grab a coffee and...

Is the stock market about to crash? Should we sell everything right now? The national debt is skyrocketing. The yield curve is nearly...

New VTS Discretionary trade: We were assigned SLV silver shares at 15.50 and it's currently trading at around 14.50.  In this situation I...

Tactical Volatility Strategy: In recent years professional traders have turned to exciting new exchange traded products such as XIV and...

VTS Community, * VTS Discretionary Strategy trade today for those following. For the forth time this year the S&P 500 is coming in for a...

I’m going to switch things up a bit and do the strategy commentary first and then below that I’ll highlight a few noteworthy events from...

VTS Community, Two potentially market moving events are now in the books.  Today saw the official start to the "trade war" if we're...

In this part 2 of the stock replacement strategy we will dive into an example of how to simulate a short volatility position using the...

The stock replacement strategy involves buying in the money options to simulate a position in the underlying without actually holding the...

VTS Community, I've got a video in the works for a new type of option strategy for the VTS Discretionary that will be great for...

This is one of the most polarizing subjects in the investment world. Does technical analysis actually work? You'll hear many opinions...

Going over one of my favorite and most common options trading strategies there is, the Bear Call Spread.

VTS Community, New VTS Discretionary trade today.  Non participants of this strategy, have a great weekend! On April 9th, 2018 I...

VTS Community Things have calmed down somewhat today but yesterday's volatility event shouldn't be ignored.  The VIX index was actually...

VTS Community For those of you who are enjoying the option trades in the Discretionary strategy, I've got a new one planned for next week...

2018 has finally seen some market volatility. Let's check in on our core Tactical Balanced strategy to see how it navigates more...