Courtesy of Slope’s own Options Charts page, here are my fifteen bearish positions:
Common properties:
- Long-dated (ranging from 129 to 339 days out)
- In-the-money (sole exception: SMCI)
- Decent volume/open interest
Present Options Positions
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Your Worst Enemy in Options Trading?
Look in the Mirror
By the time you finish reading this, you’ll either nod in quiet agreement or scoff in denial. But the truth remains: trading is not about the market—it’s about you.
Most traders spend years chasing the perfect strategy, the magic indicator, the secret formula that will make their account grow in a straight line. They burn through books, forums, YouTube videos—convinced that success is a matter of finding the right “edge.”
(more…)Homebuilders Again
Time for an Iron Condor in Google?
Volatility, Market Uncertainty, and the Case for an Iron Condor in Google
What Is an Iron Condor?
In today’s market, traders are constantly searching for an edge—something that thrives in uncertainty. The Iron Condor is exactly that kind of strategy. With implied volatility fluctuating, and mean reversion in play, is now an ideal time to deploy a high-probability, risk-defined options strategy like the Iron Condor in the tech-behemoth?
(more…)Rain Forest of Charts
This afternoon, Amazon (AMZN) will be the final exciting earnings event of the season. Afterward, it’s going to be mostly humdrum stuff until it fizzles into nothing (then, weirdly, NVDA has their moment in the spotlight on the 26th).
Amazon is a rather steady stock, being a $2.5 trillion behemoth whose defining characteristic is the ascending price channel, where it has been banging around for almost all human history.
