This blog is about trading, so what better to post about than 2 new trades that I just entered.

The first is  simple one, a credit spread, and the second is a Calendar.

At first I only wanted to talk about the calendar, but as I started making the video I showed the credit spread as well.

This video starts by me updating the 2 credit spreads I showed to members last month. I then show the new credit spread trade I put on. And then I get into the calendar.

I discuss, the trade, a possible adjustment, why I chose the strike I did, and what I think the stock will do.

If an adjustment or an update is needed I will post it in the members’ area of the site.

Enjoy!

I have a situation with my LVS trade.

I sold some covered calls thinking that the stock would stay in its range and not move higher than my sold strike. But now it has. So I have a decision to make: What do I do with my covered calls?

So I made a video describing 4 different things a trader could do and what to think about when they are considering Rolling A Call.

So the title of this post is a bit extreme. I don’t claim to have the full answer. I don’t think anyone really does. But I have been researching this for a while and trying to figure it out. Why are some people happy and others not? And more importantly, how can I be more happy?

I have a couple resources that might help if you are also looking for answers to these same questions.

1. The book Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh – this book is actually the story of Zappos.com but there is a section in the end about happiness, and reading about how Tony figured out what made him happy and how he built his life and company around that, and was still able to profit was inspiring.

2. Another book, by Shawn Achor – but actually I have not read the book yet. I downloaded a brief work that [...]

Not sure how a butterfly works or makes money?

No problem.

This video is in response to a question from a member. He wanted to know how the trade made money and why he had to exit the trade to get his profit. The answer to the second part of the question is because the butterfly is a debit trade and so you pay for the trade. As the trade makes money, the debit or value of the spread increase and when you sell it, you get back more than what you paid. Hopefully. If you do nothing, you risk getting assigned on the short options.

How the trade works as well as short explainations of the iron butterfly and split strike butterfly as shown as well. The butterfly in the video was an OptionGenius trade that resulted in a 20% profit. As you can see, the butterfly can and does give off [...]

New to option trading?

Not sure what the difference is between a butterfly, a condor, or a mouse?

(Hint: there is no strategy called “mouse”)

In this video I open up one of my personal trading accounts to show you 4 trades that are all of a different strategy. We have a naked put in oil futures options, a butterfly in Berkshire Hathaway, an iron condor in LVS, and a straddle in LVS. All four trades are doing well.

Watch the video to see how they look on the risk graphs as well as how they are made up and work.

In the optiongenius portfolio we do not do naked puts or straddles, but we do a lot of iron condors and some butterflies. In times of low volatility with the VIX below 30 these non directional strategies work wonderfully. In high volatility markets, they can work as well but with adjustments and a [...]

In this video, I show you a tool that I use to sometimes help me find trades.
This free website can literally give you hundreds of trading ideas no matter what kind of trader you are.

Here is the third installment of the JNJ and MCD butterflies.
Here is how they are both doing after adjustments.

So you want to trade weekly options?

Never mind that they are most risky than monthly options. But the quick money and high returns are sometimes too hard to resist.

Ok then, here is a trade setup I use. When these conditions are met I trade credit spreads. More details are in the video. And in the members area, I added a video of me looking for, analyzing, and putting on a live trade with real money using this setup.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you have a wonderful, happy, and well rested holiday!

Here is an update of the MCD and JNJ butterfly trades I showed you in my last video. Had to make an adjustment to each because of the strong down move in the market which also affected these stocks.

This is a video of myself looking for some option trades using one of my real money accounts. These trades are for example only and I may exit or change them at any time without telling anyone.

This is a sample of the types of videos that are produced for Option Genius members which anyone can join from our homepage.