Capital Discussions Round Table

Brian Larson discussed "The Rhino Trade." Brian presented his "rhino" trade. The rhino is a very resilient trade that performs well in many market environments. Brian has had good results trading this system live. Brian answered many questions about the rhino trade and walked through four example trades in different types of markets. Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/

Ron Bertino discussed "Weighted Vega." Ron presented "Weighted Vega" and dispelled many commonly taught myths. This is one you don't want to miss! Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/

Steve Lentz, from OptionVue and Discover Options, discussed "Volatility Edge Analysis of the RUT/RVX Update." Steve presented an update to his "Volatility Edge Analysis of the RUT/RVX" presentation. Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/

Mark Alpers discussed "Trading the Weirdor in a low volatility environment." Mark alpers presented his Weirdor guidelines and walked through his live trades and answered questions. Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/

Himanshu Raval discussed "The Kevlar Trade." presenting the "Kevlar Butterfly Trade." Himanshu stepped through a few of his Kevlar trades and answered questions about the Kevlar. Himanshu is starting a Kevlar Butterfly trading service. The first two or three trades will be free. The trades start about 45-days before expiration so the free period should last approximately two months. Sign up for the Kevlar at http://capitaldiscussions.com/kevlar-trades Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/

Andrew Falde, from SMB Capital, discussed "Filters to help avoid big draw down." Andrew presented interesting filters to use to avoid large draw down in QuantyCarlo and in TradeStation. Andrew showed how you can use a 190 moving average and a 12-bar look back for some simple filters. Download the video at http://a.capitaldiscussions.com/join/

Amy Meissner, the "Queen of the Iron Condor", her Weirdor trade results and showed how she changes her window to trigger adjustments. Amy answered questions about the Weirdor trade and showed how it's low draw downs have a superior equity growth chart.Amy reviewed her Weirdor trade performance, how her window expands for adjusting over time and answered questions. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Marc Principato, CMT, discussed "How I swing trade." Round Table with Marc Principato, CMT. Marc showed how he looks at charts as a directional trader. He's starting a new "Swing Signals" service that provides trading signals on SPX, NDX, RUT, Crude Oil and the EUR/USD that are suitable for option traders to take advantage of. Check out Marc's new service at http://cdurl.us/swing. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

David Stewart discussed his "Take Five trade." David talked about his trade, which is a bearish butterfly that he trades, and stepped through an example. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Steve Lentz, from OptionVue ( http://optionvue.com/ ), discussed "Volatility Edge Analysis of the Russell 2000." Steve showed how often the RVX implied move of RUT is under estimated and how he's trying to use technical analysis to improve the trading edge. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Tony Sizemore, from Option Elements ( http://optionelements.com ), discussed "How I Traded to Lead the Options Tribe Trading Contest." Tony talked about his JAN 2015 trade where he made a profit of more than $80,000 in his personal trading account. Tony discussed his trading philosophy. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Steven Place, from http://investingwithoptions.com/, discussed "Income Trading Around The Earnings Cycle." presented "Income Trading Around The Earnings Cycle." Steven had an interesting presentation that talked about term structure and how stocks move AFTER earnings announcements. After the presentation, Steven and Jim went into an interesting discussion about volatility and backwardation and contango. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Round Table with Bill Ghauri. Bill presented his Long and Short trading systems using his automated back testing solution. Bill reviewed the importance of risk and money management in trading and sizing your trades correctly. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Paul Demers discussed "Weighted Vega." Paul talked about how vega comes out of options in different expiration months at different rates. Trading at-the-money calendars has hidden dangers. Paul never puts at-the-money calendar spreads on. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Bill Ghauri discussed "What BackTesting Taught Me about Risk/Money Management." Billtalked about the holy grail of trading: risk management. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Ricardo Saenz De Heredia, from http://optionelements.es/ , discussed "Earnings Plays." Ricardo showed the OptionVue Earnings Tools and how to use them. Jim Graham from OptionVue joined Riardo on the panel. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Dan Passarelli, from http://markettaker.com/, discussed "How Time Spreads Can Profit From High Volatility with Limited Risk." Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join

Jim Riggio and Paul Demers discuss Managing by the Greeks. The presentation discussed option greek ratios. Brian Johnson's book has taken the old Delta/Theta and Vega/Theta ratios to the next step by incorporating the volatility of volatility. The author, Brian Johnson, attended and participated in the chat.Paul Demers showed his spreadsheet that he is developing to try to accurately estimate vega in multi-expiration option spreads by using weighted vega Download the video at http://members.capitaldiscussions.com/join

Himanshu Raval, aka "the Calendar King", discussed "Calendars for Consistent Income." Himanshu reviewed why he likes trading calendar spreads and showed several example trades, including one during a severe market move which ended up profitable. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough

Larry Richards, discussed "QuantyCarlo - Automate Your Options Back Testing." Larry talked about how to turn the tedious process of option back testing from days or weeks into minutes. Download the video at http://capitaldiscussions.com/website-walkthrough