The Case for Wider Option Spreads

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When analyzing a vertical based credit spread, including iron condors and butterflies, the first question that usually comes up is where to place the short strike. In a distant second usually comes the question of where to place the long strike, that is how wide the spread will be. This leaves some analysis to be done on using more contracts for narrow spreads or fewer contracts for wide spreads.

At first glance it seems to be a better deal to narrow your spread and double the number of contracts. This is a major misconception I had about credit spreads when I started trading and later discovered the real trade off which I will Read more [...]

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Introducing the Zoom Thumbnail

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StockCharts recently acquired all of Decision Point's Charting tools. Only about 1/2 the tools have been converted onto the StockCharts platform, but more and more will arrive shortly.

One of the tools now available is so nice. You can look at a longer term chart and have a thumbnail that zooms in on the last time frame. What makes this so powerful, is it takes the entire vertical height of the 8 month chart and focuses it on the last month in my example below. This really helps put the most recent price action into perspective!

Here is a US listing of Suncor. Why Suncor? It broke out of a trading range recently. It really makes the value of the Zoom Thumbnail tool obvious.

Notice how the entire vertical height of the chart is used to display the last month. It rescales the little box on the right based on the minimum and maximum price. It also focuses your indicator panels as well. Rather than the MACD being the bottom 1/3 of the MACD box, the zoom tool uses the whole box height for the last month. The most important data is on the right edge of the chart, and this is where the benefit of 'Zoom Thumbnail' really helps.

Where can you find this tool?

See the checked box on the bottom right in the Chart Attributes. Just click it. This also works on other timeframes.

Fantastic!

Good trading,

Greg Schnell, CMT

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