The idea of a “run into earnings” always sounds good, but may not be as easy in practice. When used in conjunction with a few of these tools, however, the odds of picking the right chart does increase.

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.