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[Options Premium] Shiny Sideways Action

Welcome to 2020, where vision will not be in hindsight -- except when using past trends to inform decisions on future price action.

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty excited to kick off a year that is likely to see lots of volatility....

January 6, 2020
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[Options] January Expiration Open Positions Review

As January gets under way, it’s time to review positions with January options that remain open (haven’t already hit profit targets or been stopped out).

Most trades I put on for All Star Options tend to have a minimum duration of 30 days (...

January 3, 2020
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[Options] Getting Into the Amazon

There's been lots of frustrating talk about companies with high share prices not splitting their stock. I tend to agree. While technically splitting shares of a stock doesn't do anything to enhance the value of your investment, it does help to provide...

December 18, 2019
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[Options] An Opportunistic Bearish Bet

I know what you're thinking? A bearish play? In this market?

Believe it or not, there are some weak sectors out there, and there's a stock we're bearish on that may have just exhausted itself in a last-gasp dead-cat bounce which may be soon...

December 11, 2019
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[Options Premium] Stalled Luster

Believe it or not, there isn't a bull market EVERYwhere. Of course, if you give yourself a steady diet of SHOUT!TV! then this is not a surprise to you because everything is bearish (on TV).

As we begin the last leg of 2019 into the...

December 6, 2019
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[Options] Streaming Profits

I'm not saying I'm bullish on Disney because my family recently signed up to send them money every month for Disney+, but it certainly has me thinking about the tremendous new source of cashflow to be streaming into their coffers. That's got to be...

December 4, 2019
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[Options Premium] Resting Interest Rates

There might not be a bull market everywhere. It seems interest rates are taking a breather here and deciding their next move. And while they consolidate, options markets are currently pricing in some elevated premiums that are pretty tempting...

November 18, 2019
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How Do I Handle Theta Decay?

A subscriber recently sent me this question:

Sean, what is your strategy for handling the impact of Theta on an open position? Is there a bailout point where the time decay outweighs the potential upside?

The answer is YES. Theta, as...

November 13, 2019
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[Options Premium] Kaizen

We're seeing a pretty sexy opportunity set up in the auto space. <--- that's a sentence I never thought I'd write.

Even more sexy is the potential breakout could be from a nearly TWELVE YEAR BASE.  Mizutamari!!

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November 8, 2019
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[Options] When to Exit Options and Options Spreads

I recently received an email from a subscriber asking about best practices in exiting options positions:

How do you automate managing risk on options if you want to define it through the base stock price? E.g. you have calls on MSFT that you...

November 6, 2019
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[Options Premium] Casey at the Bat

There are bullish setups all over the place. My friend Aaron couldn't have said it better:

<----- drowning in setups

— Aaron (@ATMcharts)...

November 4, 2019
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