How to trade VIX

How to trade VIX you ask?  Ove r the past week we have had a 12.35 VIX running to the mid 17’s so there should be plenty of VIX trading to be done.  The reality is that VIX itself does not trade.  The VIX futures trade and most of the liquidity is in the Apr17…

The Stock Market Rally no one saw coming

Our Pro Trading Summit is coming in June.  Once it is filled, no room for you. Stocks were nonplussed by the FOMC notes yesterday The Rally in SPX was a massive surprise.  I know pundits will pop on TV next week and say that they have been long all the whole rally and got in…

Why do short calls get assigned?

Why do short calls get assigned? Short Calls get assigned mostly for two reasons  So why do short calls get assigned?  The more I pop into large group chat discussion the more I see this come up.  There are several group discussions on FB and StockTwits about options but I largely hang back from them. …