Sometimes we traders overcomplicate things. With so many choices, so many moving parts, so many headlines, so many things vying for our attention on a minute by minute basis, it is easy to become overwhelmed.

It seems so obvious, but often the smartest — yet the simplest — thing to do is just keep investing in winners. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, right? And if we can construct options trades that take advantage of that momentum while defining our risks in case we happen to be the last suckers to pile in before the reversal — then we should do that all day long and twice on Sundays, right?

With that in mind, today’s trade is a momentum name that is no stranger to anyone who has been paying attention to hot names this year. [Read more…]

The All Star Charts research team recently published our Quarterly Playbook for Q4. ASC subscribers can check it out here. And one of the highlighted semiconductor names has caught my attention for an opportunistic options trade. [Read more…]

The curious case of higher implied volatility in out-of-the-money calls than the correspondingly distant OTM puts continues in a lot of high flying names. This is neither good nor bad, rather a data point we can use to our advantage when crafting bullish trade designs.

One such name that’s on our radar which also made the cut in ASC’s latest Under the Hood report is everyone’s favorite blue bird — Twitter $TWTR. [Read more…]