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Implied volatility drop after earnings
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Trade log update - More than 150 trades and 87% win rate
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As you might know by now - we are traders ourselves, and we built SamurAI as we felt the tools out there are not satisfying for our needs. We use our scanner daily and share some of the actual...
New version for Option Samurai
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Just as 2019 is starting, we are happy to announce that we've rolled out some of the features we were testing over the last few weeks.
IPO Date filter:
We've added an IPO date filter that allows...
Legging into your trade positions
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INTRODUCTION
Let us consider a put vertical spread structure. It is formed by simultaneously selling a put and buying a put below the strike price of the put. The same structure can be created...
Scaling into your trades
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SCALE INTO YOUR POSITIONS?
Imagine you are bullish on a stock and assume you have set aside $2000 capital to purchase 10 contracts of long calls. However, instead of deploying...
Changing option structure in predefined scans
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One of the prominent features in SamurAI are the predefined screens. The screens (over 20 of them) allow you find trade ideas in one click in different market conditions. We’ve created the screens...
New Month New Features
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Earlier this month we released some new features and we want to take a minute and describe them. Stay tuned as more things coming next month!
Analyst Recommendation
This filter aggregates Wall St....
Happy Labor day 2018
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To all our users, followers and fellow Samurais - Happy labor day!
And remember not to wear white after Monday!
The Edge of Moving Average
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This is the second part in the series about the edge of the market sentiment. The first part about relative strength edge was published a few weeks ago.
In this part I wish to describe a simple...
The edge of Mean Reversion Trades
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Mean Reversion Trades
To be a profitable trader, you need to trade with an edge. What is a trading edge? In short, it is the opportunities or patterns that exist in the market that has a high...