Market Recovery The S&P today closed up a whopping 48.34 points today which was a 2.4% increase from yesterday. This followed on the heels of a 40.15 point move yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 421.28 points today which represented a 2.43% increase from yesterday. It’s hard to ignore such bullish action. The volume on both days was significant. It was greater volume than any of the prior down day’s volume. After dropping 6 of 7 days, the market has recovered almost all of the losses. In fact, […]

When trading options, we should make sure we use our due diligence in our analysis. We should consider the fundamentals of the underlying stock, the sector or industry of the underlying stock, and what the charts of the stock are showing us. There are a few other considerations we might want to make. Due to the leverage of options, option prices can be quite volatile. For the most part, it would be wise to go with the flow of the overall market. If the market is bullish, making put trades […]