As US stocks rallied for most of this year, many stocks in the Metals, Mining, Coal, and Steel sectors could not get out of their own way and refused to participate in the broad rally. Back in March, All Star Charts...

Markets are getting a little shaky. No real surprise. We've had a huge run to start the year and it's only natural for there to be givebacks along the way. Markets don't go straight up forever. That's not how this works.

That said, there are...

If you've read headlines or watched Shout! TV over the past 36 hours, you've likely been tempted to make some bad decisions with your portfolio. Panic is like sex to the financial media -- panic sells. Panic attracts eyeballs, gets you glued...

It's one thing to find a great opportunity to make a directional bet. But sometimes it can be be quite a challenge to express that trade with options due to a thin market of options for that stock. This would make a multi-legged options spread...

In our most recent All Star Options monthly conference call, JC highlighted why he felt metals might be a good buy here. Inspired by his...

This is the video recording of the May 2019 Conference Call for Members of All Star Options

With U.S. Markets back at All Time Highs, it would be irresponsible to be doing anything other than keeping close tabs on the price action leaders. And many of these leading stocks will currently be found in the...

Shocking as it may seem, not all stocks and sectors are knocking on the door of new all-time highs. The clean energy sector is one of those neighborhoods. But that hasn't stopped us from digging in to find an opportunistic trade.

Recent price action in a tech name has us opportunistically wading in to catch a possible earnings driven bounce. We don't often put trades on in anticipation of a reversal of price action (we tend to be drawn to trends), but in this case we have a...

Sometimes, stocks you want to own give you no chance to get in comfortably. They just start running and offer you no pullbacks to buy into. In hindsight, these are always the ones we wished we woulda just closed our eyes and hit market buy on...

A stock of interest for us recently impressed investors with their latest earnings report, sending shares on a gap higher at the open today. Now that the event is out of the way, options pricing (in terms of volatility) has collapsed, giving us a...

A beauty chart on monthly, weekly, and daily timeframes is setting up just under a major magnet level; there is an an earnings catalyst on the horizon which may goose the action in our favor quickly; and the premiums are relatively cheap for an upside...

As long as Mr. Market wants to keep grinding volatility premiums in options lower, we'd be foolish not to be buyers of long calls with expirations 4-6 months out in individual names that are showing signs of upward momentum. Who are we to argue with...

This is the video recording of the April 2019 Conference Call for Members of All Star Options

The "Gap and Go" pattern is popular with intraday and swing traders. It is a situation where a stock gaps higher out of a base (often earnings driven), then punishes the opportunistic faders who are playing for the stock to come back and "fill the gap...

In light of DowDuPont's $DWDP recent spinoff of Dow $DOW, it makes the maths a little more complicated on our trade.

Here is the press release from the OCC: https://t.co/QhpJMykSi8 (click the...

In Texas, it's often said: "Go Big or Go Home."

We intend to do just that with a simple options play in a State of Texas namesake.

The All Star Charts team is not wildly bullish on US stocks here, though the consensus is that eventually we resume higher out of some sideways action that might take a few...

Due to a scheduling conflict around the annual CMT Symposium in New York, JC and I will be doing our monthly conference call a little later in the cycle this month. But have no worries, I'll provide some updates below on positions we have open with...

I don't often take long premium plays ahead of an earnings event, but there's one coming on the horizon where the options pricing isn't too high (yet) and the All Star Charts team has a price target that would yield us a greater than 4-to-1 return on...

A year ago, I made a commitment to healthier eating. Not that I was a slob or anything, it was just that my attitude about what I was willing to put into my body (basically anything) needed to change. At my age, you begin to think about these things...

You probably thought this would be a piece about US stocks, didn't you?

While it certainly looks like the Christmas lows in the US are going to stick around for a while, the All Star Charts team is also detecting some broader potential...

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir? ~ John Maynard Keynes

This quote has been on my mind as I am about to publish a trade idea that runs contrary to an existing position we're currently carrying. And if the Market Gods...