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Recent Articles

Seasonal Patterns

Seasonal Patterns I Focus on Throughout the Year

I am an options trader. I have a variety of ‘Rules-Based’ option trading styles. By rules-based trading, I am talking about spotting a pattern and then quantifying it. You have to be able to see how it performed in the past, tweak it if you can and see how that tweak worked (further quantifying it), […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 9 mins read

Education

Are There Repeatable Price Patterns Around Specific Holidays?

Many are using and reaping the benefits of having my seasonal pattern scanning software tool Money Calendar or subscribing to my alert publication Money Calendar Pro. I usually say when I speak of seasonal pattern trading I am not speaking of a specific season like Tax season, Back to School season or a specific holiday […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 5 mins read

Big Picture

My Corners of the Market – Assessing  Directional Bias for the Markets

Stocks, Bonds, Currency, and Commodities My research in assessing a directional bias for the markets overall starts with a look at the charts on what I call my ‘Corners’ of the market. I look at the following 4 corners or areas of the market. 5 are listed below, but you can consider numbers 4 and […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 3 mins read

Options Trading

In Options Trading What is the Best Way to Assess Liquidity?

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I co-founded one of the world’s largest options education companies with several partners, including George Fontanils. We took our company global. We were doing options education ‘live event’ seminars all over the U.S. and Canada. We even held these sessions in the UK, Singapore, and Australia. It was […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 3 mins read

Education

Trade the Haystack NOT the Needle – What the Heck Does That Even Mean?

What I teach regarding options trading is what I, myself do. My options trading process is three-fold. 1) Spot the Opportunity. 2) Create an acceptable risk options trade and then 3) Manage that trade for profit or loss. This educational piece is going to discuss a concept in accomplishing number 1 – spotting an opportunity. […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 5 mins read

Options Education

When to Close an Option Trade: I Like Using Percent to Double

I’ve authored educational articles recently on what I call Option Trade Management. I have often written about managing your option trade and when to consider closing your option trade based on when to take a loss and preserve capital. This week I’m going to write about trade management from the perspective of when to close […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 7 mins read

Options Trading

Want to Know Two Key Pieces of Information to be Successful with Options Trading?

If you have been a student / subscriber or both of mine for just a short time or  long time, you likely have heard me outline my Options Trading Process which is three-fold. In order to accomplish this process, I have to have two key pieces of information for my options trades. I need to […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 5 mins read

Current Events

An Option Opportunity to Consider on Trumps Decision on Tariffs

Let me highlight an interesting option strategy for your consideration based on Trump announcing his decision on tariffs at the close of market today. It is a Straddle. Here is a scenario of an options strategy  on the Diamonds, the DIA, which is the ETF for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. I’ve taught the basics […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 4 mins read

Current Events

Tariffs – Good for the Stock Market or Bad?

It seems that every time you turn on the news, whether it be on a financial news network or are even watching your local news; or when you look up news online or read a news headline from the actual newspaper (for those still reading those), you are getting bombarded with information regarding the tariff […]

Tom Gentile

Tom Gentile

· 4 mins read