Join TJ this week to hear about the trades he placed in C and AMZN in the live trading room. The market looked bearish and the financial sector has been in a down trend recently. I wanted to take advantage of the decline in the market by trading a bear call spread in AMZN, Amazon and by buying a put in C, Citigroup. Both of the trades paid of as the market pushed lower.

In this episode we discuss trading IPO’s and specific ways we are looking at trading recent stocks to go public like LYFT and BYND.

Sarah has been particularly interested in buying BYND stock, especially after the stock rose about $65.00.

TJ is interested in trading LYFT and explains that he believes this stock will continue to rise as it is a business that is well engrained into our lifestyles.

Find out more about what to look for and how to assess IPOs.

The new Futures Micro EMinis launched this week. The new futures contracts are one tenth the size of the standard futures contract. Margin requirements are also lower than the standard contracts.

The new contracts will offer a way to trade the US Equity Indexes with less capital required.

On this episode of the SCT Podcast Sarah and TJ discuss how they will be incorporating the new contracts in to their trading strategy and what they see as some of the benefits of the new contracts.

In this podcast Sarah talks about how you can learn and understand the stock market and how to trade options. Financial knowledge should be inclusive and available to everyone. Whether you want to trade for your self, or just want to have a better understanding of what your financial adviser is saying, we can show you where to find the information you need.

As a trader you have most likely heard the saying "Buy the Dip", what happens if a stock makes a large move down, should you still buy, and how far is too far?

There are many examples of stocks that have had a large move down and price has remained low for years after the move. How can you tell which stocks will bounce back and which ones are down for the count.

Chipotle had a strong run until their food safety issues took the stock from over $700 to a low of around $250. 

Chipotle seems to have put these issues behind them, and the stock price has rebounded. With a lift after earnings and analyst upgrade is it time to start looking at CMG again?

In this episode of the SCT Podcast TJ and Sarah from youcantrade.com will discuss if they are trading CMG and if there are any better alternatives in the restaurant sector.

Earnings season is here and the results are mixed. Over the next two weeks most of the companies will report earnings for the end of 2018.

Facebook, Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Alphabet just to name a few of the big names that have just reported or will report in a few days.

In this episode of the SCT Podcast we discuss how the market has reacted to earnings and some strategies you can use as an options and stock trader to make sure that you are on the right side of the trade.

Media and social media has a tremendous effect on the markets. It also has and effect on the mind of a trader and how they place their trades.

In this episode of the SCT Podcast, Sarah will discuss how the constant messaging from the media can have a negative effect on your trading and some strategies to tune out the noise. The market is very good at showing traders where it will move next, as a trader you have to watch for the clues and use evidence to get the edge in the market.

We had discussed after the correction on Dec 24th, that we believed that the market would make small daily moves to the upside. This premise has been proven as the market has made daily small moves up over the last few weeks. We feel that this will continue as long as the US political landscape remains the same as it is now. If there are any changes to the ongoing Government Shutdown, US China Trade dispute or other notable headlines the market will in our view see a larger move.

The S&P500 continues to show the volatility that we saw at the end of December. The market has pushed up from the low we saw at the end of December. There is talk in the media about how this is a good time to start buying stocks after the pull back and to start building a position now that the market has pulled back.