Top Gun Options Market Intelligence
How Does Inflation Affect Options Trading?
Over the last year inflation has risen to levels not seen in four decades. Although inflation numbers are slightly better at this time, the US Federal Reserve is still planning to raise interest rates and the risk of an overshoot and recession is still strong. How...
Banks Are Doing the Fed’s Work
After a late start the Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates in an attempt to stem inflation. The way that works is that higher rates depress the business cycle, increase the rate of unemployment and, typically, result in a recession. Although inflation has...
How to Control Risk with Options
Over the long-term investing in stocks can be profitable. But stock investing can be risky over the short term due to market fluctuations and over the long term when an investor does not have a strategy for hedging risk. Options provide both leverage for trading...
Why Is Option Trading Profitable?
At Top Gun Options we often remind our readers that one can profit by trading options in rising, falling, and sideways-trading markets. We also preach the necessity of hedging against risk. A more basic question for anyone considering this business is why is option...
How Bad Is the FTX Mess?
Anyone who has paid attention to what we say at Top Gun Options knows that we do not like and have never liked cryptocurrencies from Bitcoin and Ether down to the most recently mined of tens of thousands of tokens. Our argument against Bitcoin and the rest is...
22 November Joint Brief: "Smart Money" Morons & Crypto Fraud, COP Iron Butterfly, Long Volatility
TGO members - New MAX Afterburner podcast just dropped, "She Gave Up Her Seat". New long VIX calls: Legging into COP iron butterfly with bear call spread: Metrics: Replay: https://youtu.be/_AY8OPzOsho