I recently taught a Professional Trader class where a student had a sudden realization while doing some trading in the classroom. The student had read about some very technical and intricate systems for trading the markets and...
Read MoreYes, most definitely! …along with all other financial Futures contracts. Seasonality occurs when there is a cyclical event that drives the supply/demand fundamentals consistently during certain times of the year. These...
Read MoreOnce a year at Online Trading Academy we have the opportunity to get together at an annual conference held for the staff and leadership. It is a time to re-energize our professional skills and goals. One of the things I took...
Read MoreNever make the mistake of thinking that you will ever really know what will happen next in the market. Nobody walking the face of the earth knows exactly what is going to happen tomorrow and the sooner I accepted that very fact,...
Read MoreAt Online Trading Academy, we teach trading. That doesn’t mean that you have to be a scalper or momentum trader to benefit from our education or even to benefit from understanding the data presented on Level 2 or...
Read MoreToday we’ll talk about what the option chain can tell us about whether trading a particular option might be too costly, in the sense that the “markup” on it is too high. We know that the buyers of options...
Read MoreTracy was still angry with her husband even though the argument happened last night. She thought that since she “slept on it” that things would look a little differently today…they didn’t. She and Bob...
Read MoreAnyone who has had a retail brokerage account is likely familiar with the term “dollar cost averaging.” The original definition of dollar cost averaging, or DCA, is “a regular investment of equal amounts at...
Read MoreThis is another in our series called Options for Newbies. In this series, I’m explaining options from the ground up. Even if you’re a veteran, these articles may give you a deeper understanding of some aspects of...
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