In this episode of the Modern Stock & Option Trading Show, Russ delves into why the macroeconomic picture matters and how it affects you. In other words, why should you care about terms such as CPI, PCE, Unemployment levels, Inflation, etc. Russ breaks down the areas of impact to you when these macro-economic areas change.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Option Trading Show, Russ describes the strategy to best recover one's portfolio. If you have ever wondered, is there a way to possibly recover your next egg from down 30%-40% fairly quickly while further defining the downside risk, Russ describes how others do that. Most importantly, you can define any further draw down risk and you can calculate this maximum risk up front before ever entering the trade. The key is keep the risk level to a very low percentage (say 3%-5% of your portfolio) with an uncapped upside.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Option Trading Show, Russ lays out the bad news and good news elements going on today. This episode addresses the anxiety about the current 'bear' market and worries about the deterioration of wealth. In addition, Russ covers what to do about it; specific action steps are illustrated.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Options Trading Show, Russ takes a look at efficient market theory today. He explores the three forms of efficient market theory (the Strong, Semi Strong & Weak forms) and covers the implications for tactical stock & options trading.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Options Trading Show, Russ takes a macro perspective. He covers how to make your money work harder for you. Both for the rest of 2022 & in future years. Four key steps are covered.

1.) Use the right strategies.

2.) Have a risk management process.

3.) Do equal size trades.

4.) Scale into positions and scale out.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Options Trading Show, Russ discusses how inflation expectations seem to have peaked with the August CPI Report and how inflation expectations seem to be driving stock markets, bond markets and other assets. Russ Discusses what it means for stock markets and whether he thinks the bottom is in for markets for the 2022 correction.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Options Trading Show, Russ recaps one of the most misunderstood and reliable sentiment indicators – the Put / Call Ratio. He discusses how this is a 'contrarian' market sentiment indicator, how to use it, how it is calculated and where it is found.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Options Trading Show, Russ recaps the first half of 2022 in the stock market. He then asks the question, should we invest in stocks & options in the second half of 2022 at all? Four reasons are given why investing and staying in are the best alternative vs. hiding out in cash.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Options Trading Show, you will learn about a trading strategy that is very popular on social media in 2022. It is a variation on one of host Russ Mathews favorite trading strategies – and it called the 1:1:1 Trade. Russ' teaches a variation of the trade (called the put ratio spread). Russ will teach you what the 1:1:1trding strategy is, why it is so powerful, and how the mechanics differ from the traditional put ratio spread trade. Eli Lilly & Company is used as an example.

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In this episode of the Modern Stock & Options Trading Show, you will learn about a variation on one of host Russ Mathews favorite trading strategies - the Poor Man's Covered Call Trade. Russ will teach you what it is, why it is so powerful and how the mechanics differ from the traditional covered call. The covered call is one of the bread-and-butter strategies to generate income safely and this variation uses less cash but also adds complexity. The Poor Man's Covered Call is illustrated with two examples.

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