Today was another low volume rally on not much news. On days like today, I mostly try to sit on my hands. I do research, catch up on reading, and stay away from my keyboard (for the most part). You also have to stay alert for opportunity, however, and today …

Today we are going to add a bit more FAS (the 300% levered financial ETF). Currently trading at $83.30, we are going to buy another calender spread, but for this one we are going even deeper in the money, and even further out in time. All of the factors from …

Today’s pick is another calender spread, this time with Intuitive Surgical (ISRG). For those who don’t keep up with cutting edge, flesh slicing robots. . . . ISRG makes cutting edge, flesh slicing robots. Seriously, they are the largest player in the fast growing field of robotically enhanced surgery. With …

For today’s pick I’m going to use a plain vanilla calender spread. This is just a simple bet that the stock — in this case Mastercard — is not going to move all that much in the near term. This trade is not likely to be a huge winner (%100 …

Today’s option pick illustrates two very important principles in options investing. The first is that there aren’t any bad stocks, just bad risk / reward ratios. The second is that implied volatility is critically important, and this factor alone can make or break many trades.
AIG would seem to be a …