Scott Bauer on SMCI: Fading a 23% Pop With a Texas Hedge
July 22, 2026
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June 1, 2026
How A Vertical Call Spread Helped Scott Play A Post-Earnings Rebound
I recently closed a winning live trade signal in Arista Networks Inc. (ANET). The trade ran over the course of a few days, and I set it up using one of my favorite options strategies. I’ll walk you through how the trade unfolded, what the final results showed, and the options strategy I used to […]
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December 23, 2025
3 Top Indicators For Day Trading Options
Make no mistake…day trading options can be very profitable, but it can also be very risky. If you don’t know what you’re doing—you will get burned. When I first started day trading options, I learned that lesson the hard way quite a few times, but those experiences made me a better trader and coach. I’ll […]
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December 12, 2025
Premarket Pulse Pattern: My #1 Prop Trading Strategy
What is Prop Trading? Prop trading has exploded in popularity over the last five years. It’s transformed from a niche practice into a mainstream gateway for retail traders. There’s a lot of highly skilled traders out there who are sitting on the sidelines right now for two main reasons: Prop trading addresses both issues. In […]
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May 3, 2023
Options Expiration vs. Exercising Options: Common Misconceptions
If you have spent any time researching trading schools or trading signal services, you undoubtedly have come across many that claim that buying options is a proposition that loses up to 90% of the time and thus you should always take the other side and sell options. Sound great right? Problem is that these claims […]
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August 22, 2022
5 Bullish Chart Patterns Every Stock Trader Should Know
Chart patterns contain extremely valuable information traders can use to predict or monitor trends and price movement. If you ever received my Rocket Trade Signals, you’ll know that chart patterns are one of my favorite tools. Recognizing specific chart patterns can give traders a huge edge that allows them to maximize their profit potential and […]
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August 4, 2020
TSLA Inside Bar Entry
An inside bar is just what the name implied. It is a bar that is “inside” of another bar. We use a daily chart for this approach. So the high from two days ago is higher than the high from one day ago and the low of two days ago is lower than the low […]
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August 3, 2020
Option Ratio and Backspreads
A ratio spread is a neutral options strategy in which an investor simultaneously holds an unequal number of long and short or written options. … Conceptually, this is similar to a spread strategy in that there are short and long positions of the same options type (put or call) on the same underlying asset. A backspread is s a type of option trading plan in which […]
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July 29, 2020
Is JPM Morgan Poised For Its Next Leg Up?
We believe that some banks are in a position to make the next leg up? Why? You ask. Unlike your conventional banks, some banks like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citibank and, Morgan Stanley have resources that many conventional banks do not. They have MASSIVE trading entities. They are not simply a place to park […]
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July 28, 2020
Vega and Order Flow
Vega is the measurement of an option’s price sensitivity to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset. Vega represents the amount that an option contract’s price changes in reaction to a 1% change in the implied volatility of the underlying asset. We also discuss order flow and how it can affect implied volatility and the balance of supply and demand. Click […]
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