Webinar: I’ve traded through the dotcom crash and the Great Recession, and we’re going to talk about all those cycles that happen in the market; number one, how to identify when they’re going to happen. Two, how to protect yourself and three, ultimately, let’s make some money doing it.
Webinar: The reason that I assume you’re here is we want to go through the major reason most traders fail. Now, of course that sounds very negative. But really if you don’t understand why people fail and why people can’t do something, then it really doesn’t give you much insight into why do some people succeed.
It is always beneficial to pause periodically and analyze your trading performance, win/loss percentages, reward/risk ratios and risk-adjusted measure of return (Sharpe ratio). Without looking back and analyzing performance numbers, it is hard to improve as a trader. At Maverick, we do the above self-analysis every six months in a live class. We also make…
We have yet to meet anyone who failed at trading from lack of charting knowledge, financial info, etc. People fail at trading because they are human and are prone to make mistakes. There are thousands of books and websites about charting and technical analysis, but nothing covers how you are going to feel when trading…
Options Pricing 101: Options Premium Breakdown Many aspiring option traders do not understand the basics of option pricing, so we created this class about the “ABC’s of options.” Without understanding things like implied volatility, historical volatility and option pricing models, traders will inevitably choose the wrong option strike prices and expirations. At Maverick Trading, we…
Call Ratio Backspreads This strategy is all about news announcements, earnings reports, and volatility. It is not very often that you can create a trading strategy where if the stock explodes in a certain direction, you make a massive gain – and if you are flat out wrong and the stock goes the other way,…
Professional traders understand that trading as a profession is all about yearly returns, not daily results. In this archived video, we look back at a significantly profitable 2016 at Maverick Trading.
Maverick’s head traders also make their predictions for 2017 and discuss the major themes of the markets and possible trading opportunities.
