With the market pushing to new highs every day, it’s not easy to be short, but I won’t buy just anything either. The criteria I like to follow is pretty simple, and we’re seeing a clear example of it in ALRM.

Pinning is a concept that comes up a lot around monthly expiration. Let’s look at a few of this week’s examples and how we can best trade around them.

Not all is as it appears to be, especially in the case of this investment trust. Where’s it going to go next? Very simple.

Here are two trades I’m doing tomorrow, and one I’m avoiding like the plague.

There’s a lot to be said for sticking to a basic set of criteria for your trades. We’ve had great performance from two previous names we’ve covered here; let’s look at setting up a third.

Initially this morning seemed like it would be the end of the world kind of day, but it quickly turned into the “end of the world” for shorts. How did we know this at the open?

BBY earnings are due out Tuesday morning and I wanted to look at a neutral strategy while making sure I had no risk to the downside. There are several ways to go about that, but tonight we’re looking at an unbalanced butterfly.

This sector looks good for one reason, and it’s not the right reason. Let’s take a look.

With the Nasdaq in hurry up and wait mode, these are the trades I’m taking.