Long term view of SPX and RUT

Below is a long term view (monthly bar) of the SPX and RUT. You can see at a high level the pullback and uptrend percentages over the decade...

Technical - confirmation stock trend with advance decline

If markets go up the advance/decline cumulative should support the up move (this doesn't appear to work or validate down moves). This ...

Bob Farrell’s 10 Rules for Investing

1. Markets tend to return to the mean over time When stocks go too far in one direction, they come back. Euphoria and pessimism can c...

Little Book of Stock Market Cycles - seasonality charts for indexes, sectors, and commodities

Key Seasonalities by months for indexes, sectors, and commodities. From the The Little Book of Stock Market Cycles

Seasonality patterns stock markets

Below are some Seasonality charts from the Stock Trader's Almanac.

Github repository scripts

You can get many of my scripts through Github. I also included scripts from other contributors. I'll try to use that as another backup...

Porfolio Margin -synthetic equivalent

Actual position and synthetic equivalent These were questions to be answered to get portfolio margining.

Option Strategy cheatsheet

On the 1/3/2017 Best Practices discussed some cheatsheets for strategy entry and exit. PDF file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/tastytradepubli...

Short gamma and short option affects on futures

Yesterday the market had a quick and fast drop in the ES futures, but you be reversed partly due to triple witching options expiration week....

Ten fatal errors made by traders

I saw this post that talks to the ten fatal errors made by traders. These are great to revisit once in a while. I've been guilty of most...

Difference between IV rank and IV percentile

TastyTrade did a great segment explaining the difference between IV rank and IV percentile. It is on the 2/19 Options Jive episode  They als...

2015 401k limits increased to $18,000

The 2015 401K limit has been increased to $18,000. Source:  401k HelpCenter