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Solid business, trading system, and performance psychology are what all full-time traders need. Professional Trader and Educator John Locke was invited to return to Capital Discussions to talk about these subjects that are in The Trading Triangle Maui 2016 event which the recordings and seminar materials will be released in October 2016. Want to see the slide deck: https://youtu.be/vfAjZImJ4bo and to see special introductory pricing at: https://www.lockeinyoursuccess.com/the-trading-triangle-live/
Brian Larson discussed "The Rhino Trade." Brian presented his "rhino" trade. The rhino is a very resilient trade that performs well in many market environments. Brian has had good results trading this system live. Brian answered many questions about the rhino trade and walked through four example trades in different types of markets. Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/
Ron Bertino discussed "Weighted Vega." Ron presented "Weighted Vega" and dispelled many commonly taught myths. This is one you don't want to miss! Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/
Steve Lentz, from OptionVue and Discover Options, discussed "Volatility Edge Analysis of the RUT/RVX Update." Steve presented an update to his "Volatility Edge Analysis of the RUT/RVX" presentation. Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/
Mark Alpers discussed "Trading the Weirdor in a low volatility environment." Mark alpers presented his Weirdor guidelines and walked through his live trades and answered questions. Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/
Himanshu Raval discussed "The Kevlar Trade." presenting the "Kevlar Butterfly Trade." Himanshu stepped through a few of his Kevlar trades and answered questions about the Kevlar. Himanshu is starting a Kevlar Butterfly trading service. The first two or three trades will be free. The trades start about 45-days before expiration so the free period should last approximately two months. Sign up for the Kevlar at http://capitaldiscussions.com/kevlar-trades Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/
Andrew Falde, from SMB Capital, discussed "Filters to help avoid big draw down." Andrew presented interesting filters to use to avoid large draw down in QuantyCarlo and in TradeStation. Andrew showed how you can use a 190 moving average and a 12-bar look back for some simple filters. Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/
Amy Meissner, the "Queen of the Iron Condor", her Weirdor trade results and showed how she changes her window to trigger adjustments. Amy answered questions about the Weirdor trade and showed how it's low draw downs have a superior equity growth chart.Amy reviewed her Weirdor trade performance, how her window expands for adjusting over time and answered questions. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Marc Principato, CMT, discussed "How I swing trade." Round Table with Marc Principato, CMT. Marc showed how he looks at charts as a directional trader. He's starting a new "Swing Signals" service that provides trading signals on SPX, NDX, RUT, Crude Oil and the EUR/USD that are suitable for option traders to take advantage of. Check out Marc's new service at http://cdurl.us/swing. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
David Stewart discussed his "Take Five trade." David talked about his trade, which is a bearish butterfly that he trades, and stepped through an example. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Steve Lentz, from OptionVue ( http://optionvue.com/ ), discussed "Volatility Edge Analysis of the Russell 2000." Steve showed how often the RVX implied move of RUT is under estimated and how he's trying to use technical analysis to improve the trading edge. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Tony Sizemore, from Option Elements ( http://optionelements.com ), discussed "How I Traded to Lead the Options Tribe Trading Contest." Tony talked about his JAN 2015 trade where he made a profit of more than $80,000 in his personal trading account. Tony discussed his trading philosophy. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Steven Place, from http://investingwithoptions.com/, discussed "Income Trading Around The Earnings Cycle." presented "Income Trading Around The Earnings Cycle." Steven had an interesting presentation that talked about term structure and how stocks move AFTER earnings announcements. After the presentation, Steven and Jim went into an interesting discussion about volatility and backwardation and contango. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Round Table with Bill Ghauri. Bill presented his Long and Short trading systems using his automated back testing solution. Bill reviewed the importance of risk and money management in trading and sizing your trades correctly. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Paul Demers discussed "Weighted Vega." Paul talked about how vega comes out of options in different expiration months at different rates. Trading at-the-money calendars has hidden dangers. Paul never puts at-the-money calendar spreads on. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Bill Ghauri discussed "What BackTesting Taught Me about Risk/Money Management." Billtalked about the holy grail of trading: risk management. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Ricardo Saenz De Heredia, from http://optionelements.es/ , discussed "Earnings Plays." Ricardo showed the OptionVue Earnings Tools and how to use them. Jim Graham from OptionVue joined Riardo on the panel. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Dan Passarelli, from http://markettaker.com/, discussed "How Time Spreads Can Profit From High Volatility with Limited Risk." Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Jim Riggio and Paul Demers discuss Managing by the Greeks. The presentation discussed option greek ratios. Brian Johnson's book has taken the old Delta/Theta and Vega/Theta ratios to the next step by incorporating the volatility of volatility. The author, Brian Johnson, attended and participated in the chat.Paul Demers showed his spreadsheet that he is developing to try to accurately estimate vega in multi-expiration option spreads by using weighted vega Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Himanshu Raval, aka "the Calendar King", discussed "Calendars for Consistent Income." Himanshu reviewed why he likes trading calendar spreads and showed several example trades, including one during a severe market move which ended up profitable. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Larry Richards, discussed "QuantyCarlo - Automate Your Options Back Testing." Larry talked about how to turn the tedious process of option back testing from days or weeks into minutes. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Tony Sizemore, from http://optionelements.com/ , discussed "Tips and Tricks of a Professional Option Trader." Tony covered how to get filled, using OptionVue, entering and exiting spreads and more. Download the video at capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough
Jamie Ruetz, from Silexx, discussed "Obsidian - A Professional Option Trading Platform." Jamie Reutz from Silexx presenting Obsidian: A professional option trading platform. Jamie did a walkthrough of their option trading platform. This is a professional tool that Jim Riggio has used for years. Jamie reviewed just a few modules as Obsidian has many modules to manage risk, trades etc. Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Dave Thomas shares his trading journey with lessons learned and answers many questions. John answers questions about his trading systems, including the M3, Rock, Bearish Butterfly and M21. Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Jerry Furst, from Traders Education Network, discussed "Technical Analysis for Option Traders." Jerry talked about how to use technical analysis to time your option trades. Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Jim Riggio, from Capital Discussions, discussed "Covered Calls." Jim talked about institutional research from CBOE and Goldmans Sachs and how variance of returns affects your realized cumulative returns. A class on Covered Calls starts on Monday January 12, 2015. For more information, visit http://capitaldiscussions.com/1/c1/
John Locke, from Locke In Your Success, discussed "Trading the M3 with Large Market Moves." John talked about his December 2014 M3 trade and how he adjusted his live $600,000 position. Despite the extreme market moves, John's trade survived without a big loss. Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Bill Visconto, from EAB Investment Group, discussed "Why Aren't My Iron Condors Working?" Bill showed us research from his quants of iron condor performance degrading in the last few years and the steepening of the volatility skews. Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Eugene Yashin, from Krasney Financial, discussed "Investing in a Multidimensional Market." Eugene talked about Investment Regimes, Anomalies Observed, One Factor Based Equity Models - pros and cons and Multifactor Based Equity Models - pros and cons. Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Ian Scott, former Goldman Sachs options floor trader, discussed "Thinking like a Goldman Sachs Trader." Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Amy Meissner discussed "The Weirdor - A variant of the Condor." Amy showed her trading guidelines and walked through her SEP and OCT 2014 trades. Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Seth Freudberg, from the Options Tribe, discussed "Becoming a professional option trader." Seth runs the Options Trading Desk at SMB Capital and talked about what it takes to succeed as an option trader. Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join
Ricardo Saenz de Heredia, from Option Elements, discussed "The importance of scaling into short Vega monthly positions." Ricardo compared two trades of scaling and not scaling an symmetric iron condor.
Marc Principato, CMT, showed how he uses price action and technical analysis to find trading opportunities. Marc is starting a new service called "Swing Signals" to let traders follow Marc's signals in real time. These signals are for option traders trading weekly or monthly options.
Dr. Duke, from Parkwood Capital LLC, dispelled many myths about option trading. He looked at the normal probability distribution and how expected return is calculated. For all option traders.
John Locke shows his M3 butterfly trade and how it handled a large market decline. For intermediate or advanced option traders
Tony Sizemore, from Option Elements, showed how he combines different option trades to manage his option positions by the option Greeks. For intermediate or advanced option traders