Yesterday, I went out wakeboarding with my family here in Gig Harbor, Washington. The weather was great, but fairly windy, which chopped up the surface of the water. Fortunately, my parents’ place is in a cove so we just stayed further back to find smoother…

John Carter made over $1,000,000 in one day trading Tesla using options strategies. And this isn’t the first time. In trading, we’re going to miss a lot of moves, but sometimes, we see opportunities where everything lines up and we do a full-court press.

“The Fed will buy what I buy” is a phrase I have been hearing. Essentially it means that the Fed is in the business of backstopping the market and making sure it doesn’t go down at any cost. That cost is in the form of nearly 0% interest rates, digitally printing money, and buying corporate bonds.

Outside the markets, our economy is teetering in weird limbo. With stay at home orders around the world, the US has been faced with the highest unemployment that has occurred in our country’s history. Many companies were shut down as others learned how to work from home to stay on track.

Normally it would be redundant to say to technically minded traders that “news is noise” … but these are not normal times. Let’s talk about what a chart represents. A chart is a visual representation of the collective decisions and subsequent psychology of millions of market participants.