Mar 17, 2023 | Free Access, Learn Options Trading
Moving averages are basic tools for analyzing price movements in the stock market. By smoothing out the usual up and down fluctuation in the market, a moving average provides a clearer view of emerging trends. A drawback of focusing too heavily on a moving average is... 
Mar 5, 2023 | Free Access, Learn Options Trading
When a trader trades stocks or options on stocks they use tools like technical and fundamental analysis in trying to determine what a stock will be worth in the near term or longer term future. The obvious point is to buy at a low price and profit when the price goes... 
Feb 22, 2023 | Free Access, Learn Options Trading
As traders worry about inflation, a pending recession, war in Ukraine, and China using this opportunity to invade Taiwan, another issue is creeping into the options trading picture. Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived with a bag. It was always lurking in the... 
Feb 7, 2023 | Free Access, Learn Options Trading
Successful options trading requires an accurate sense of where the market is going both in the short term and over the long haul. A good example was at the start of the Covid pandemic when many believed that the new “flu” was not going to have any significant effect... 
Jan 27, 2023 | Free Access, Learn Options Trading
The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates for over a year. The markets have taken a big hit. As inflation comes down a bit we hear the occasional wishful thinking that the Fed will achieve a “soft landing.” In other words they will cure inflation without... 
Jan 12, 2023 | Free Access, Learn Options Trading
At the times when the Federal Reserve is raising or lowering interest rates, they are the major driver of the market. Fed actions can raise or lower stock prices depending on what they are doing to interest rates. Options traders can benefit from movements either up... 