VIX for Options Traders: What It Is, How to Use It, Where to Get the Data
The most quoted number in finance is also one of the most misunderstood. Here is what the VIX really measures, …
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Hedging a Dollar Options Book When You Think in Euros
If you live in Europe and sell options on US underlyings, you carry a risk most retail traders never measure: …
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How I Use Market Regimes to Size My Option Trades
How to translate a three-state market regime model into concrete position sizing rules for options selling. …
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How to Select Stocks for the Wheel Strategy
Stock selection is where most Wheel traders fail. This article introduces three curated screeners: S&P 500, …
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Three Principles Behind Serious Technical Analysis
I earned the SIAT Certified Technical Analyst designation, and used the milestone to tackle a question I get …
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Did My Market Regime Model See the 2026 Correction Coming?
A live out-of-sample test of a three-lens market regime framework: trend, volatility term structure, and …
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Covered Calls as an Income Strategy on Stocks You Own
How to generate consistent income from stocks you already own using covered calls. Real MARA trade example, …
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Free practical guides on systematic options trading, seasonal patterns, and Python-powered strategies. …
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The Anatomy of Bear Markets
A data-driven analysis of every bear market, correction, and drawdown in SPY since 1996 — durations, depths, …
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The Bull Put Spread Trade on Seasonal Edge
A real bull put spread trade on Hasbro (HAS) using a seasonal edge from SeasonHunter — entry, weekly update, …
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Building High Profitability Trades Using Seasonal Trend Analysis
A complete seasonal pattern analysis for McDonald's (MCD) with a 73% win rate over 56 years: how to identify, …
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Spread Trading with Z-Score
How to build a pairs trading strategy using z-score to detect mean-reverting mispricings between correlated …
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Trading Options on Seasonal Edge
How to translate SPY seasonal patterns into structured options trades — bull call spreads, bull put spreads, …
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SPY Seasonality Revealed
A data-driven look at SPY's recurring seasonal patterns, which months historically outperform and how to trade …
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The Hidden Patterns of Seasonal Trading
Markets are noisy, but some patterns quietly repeat every year. Learn how to find and trade seasonal effects …
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Welcome to The Quantitative Edge
Why a PhD physicist turned quant trader and what The Quantitative Edge is all about: systematic options …
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