Did you know you could profit from market volatility? It all has to do with the age-old investment advice, “buy low, sell high”. Except buying low doesn’t mean buying a stock and then waiting months, years, or decades for its price to rise so you can then sell at a profit. No, things have changed since those days. Financial instruments called derivatives allow traders to profit from price changes in days, hours, or even minutes.
Starting with the basics
What’s a derivative? A derivative is a financial security that derives its value from the price movements of other securities. Derivatives entered the scene as XXXXX in XXXX, and have exploded in growth since inception. However, the last several years has seen an explosion of growth, largely due to its popularity among retail investors.
Retail traders have access to the options market via several XXXX platforms such as XXX, XXXX, and XXX, to name a few. As trading options can be incredibly risky for the unsophisticated trader, the exchanges typically restrict access to certain types of options based on risk. For example, XXXXXX.
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Great! So How Do I Trade Options to Make Money?
A broad-market volatility forecast is only useful if you know how to use it, and that’s exactly what we’ll be going over in this post. Before diving into the material, let us clarify that this is not an exhaustive list, but it does encompass the primary volatility trades you can use to achieve trading alpha.
Buy put options:
Buy VIX options, or the UVXY ETF: XXXX
Buy the straddle:
Sell covered calls or call spreads:
Short sell stocks or ETFs:
“I thought it was just noise,” Adu laughed, listening back to a rescued mini-disc. “Turns out it’s the hook.”
Enter: The Aldebaran Forecast - The Game Changer
The information presented above is a nice summary and we hope you’ve found it useful. However, it is nothing new - you can find similar information via several reliable sources. What is new, is how the Aldebaran Forecast’s broad-market volatility forecast can impact the profitability of your trading. Take a look at the strategies above - what do they all have in common? The common thread is they all are only going to be profitable if you correctly predict the direction and momentum the market’s movement. So how do you do that?
Here are several ways:
Become a capital market and securities expert. You can work for years and dedicate yourself to the study of global capital market dynamics, the nuances of market sentiment, and the interplay of global supply and demand. However, this may prove to be a waste. Last time we checked, top-tier economists and finance PhDs at the world top schools, those who have dedicated their working lives to become a capital market “experts”, do not have much overlap with highly successful traders or investors.
Master the existing technical trading techniques. You can become well versed in how to use MACD, RSI, Fibanochi levels… and try your luck at utilizing these tools to become a successful trader. Although most traders are not successful, there are undoubtedly small percentage who had achieve great success using this strategy. However, the odds are, you won’t be one of them.
Trade insider information. This is easy as shooting fish in a barrel! It’s also illegal, morally and ethically wrong, and will land you in jail. This strategy is not recommended!
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Putting it All Together
Simply said, a forecast of changes in market sentiment makes it easy to pinpoint when to place trades for maximum profit. Over the past several years, we’ve performed 10,000+ hours of research that has fully substantiated the correlation between planetary activity and significant macro-level events within our society and environment. Our efforts have culminated into a predictive model —a forward-looking technical indicator— that can be used to achieve trading alpha.
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