How To Simulate Short Stock Using Options
In this tutorial, I want to discuss how to simulate short stock using options. There are a lot of stocks that you can just short outright, but there are also several reasons why you may want to use options to short the stock instead of just using stock outright.
Trading Iron Condors During A Market Crash
Iron Condors are one of the core strategies that we use at NavigationTrading and I get a lot of questions from members about how this strategy performs if the market crashes. To help answer this question, we did a pretty significant back tested study…
Short Strangle VS Iron Condor – Which Is Better?
Because they are very similar trades, many of our members want to know when to trade the Short Strangle, and when to trade the Iron Condor. That’s what I want to break down in this blog post. We’ll start with a little bit of a comparison, and then we’ll jump onto the the trading platform and show some actual examples…
NavigationALERTS: Trade Results August 2018
August was a record setting month! We had 18 closed trades, 17 of which were winners. Total profit was $5,835. We utilized six different strategies in August. We traded Short Strangles, Short Put Verticals, and a Calendar spread. We were in the thick of Earning Season, so we did some Pre-Earnings Long Calls, Pre-Earnings Long Straddles, and Post-Earnings Short Put Verticals…
ALL-NEW Tool: The NavigationTradeTracker
The goal of the NavigationTradeTracker is to help you track your adjusted trades. After you’ve done some adjustments and rolls, sometimes it can be overwhelming because trade platforms like thinkorswim and tastyworks don’t track your trades after the portion of them have been closed. That’s what this tool is here to help you do!
NavigationALERTS: July 2018 Trade Results
July 2018 was another great month of trading for our Pro Members! We had 16 closed trades, 15 of which were winners. Total profit was $4,182.75. We traded eight different strategies in July. Strategies included: Short Strangles, Iron Condors, Long Calls, Short Put Verticals, Pre-Earnings Long Calls, Pre-Earnings Long Straddles, Post-Earnings Short Put Verticals, and Post-Earnings Short Strangles…
NavigationALERTS: June 2018 Trade Results
June 2018 was another great month of trading for our Pro Members! We had 9 closed trades, all of which were winners. Total profit was just over $2,400. We traded five different strategies in June. We did Short Strangles, Iron Condors, a Short Put Vertical, and a couple of Earnings related trades…
NavigationALERTS: May 2018 Trade Results
May was another great month! We closed 16 trades with 14 winners. Our total profit was over $4600, making it our largest profit amount since we started posting our performance.
NavigationALERTS: Trade Results April 2018
April was another great month! We closed 13 trades with 12 winners. A combined profit of over $3,000!
How To Adjust A Loser Into Profit – Short Strangle Adjustments
Through the power of the strategy we’ll show you in this video, we were able to take a big losing trade and turn it into a profitable trade.
How To Roll A Short Call Vertical Spread
In this video, we’ll show you how to roll a Short Call Vertical Spread from one expiration cycle to the next.
NavigationALERTS: Trade Results March 2018
We had another great month of trading in March with 12 closed trades and 11 of those winners. Just one small loser. Total profit at $3,423.25.
How To Trade A Butterfly Spread On tastyworks Platform
In this lesson, we’ll show you how to trade a Butterfly Spread on the tastyworks platform manually, by using the Strategy dropdown menu, and visually through the Curve and Analysis tabs.
How To Trade A Calendar Spread In tastyworks
Calendar Spreads are unique in how they expand and contract. Because you have more than one expiration, your break-evens aren’t set. We’ll explain how this all works and how to trade a Calendar Spread in tastyworks.
Buying Options VS. Selling Options – 5 Year Study
In this video, we’ll go over the debate of buying vs. selling Options by doing a couple of backtested studies. Notice the power of statistical data to show and prove different concepts.