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Gamma Scalping: Trading Realised Volatility with Delta-Neutral Options Hedging

  • Gamma Scalping: Trading Realised Volatility with Delta-Neutral Options Hedging

    28 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    Gamma scalping is an options strategy that converts movement in the underlying into cash. The trader holds long options, which gives positive gamma and negative theta, then trades the underlying repeatedly to hold total delta at zero. Each re-hedge sells into a rally or buys into a fall, and each one banks a small gain. […]

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The Put/Call Ratio: How to Read Options Sentiment and Spot Crowded Extremes

  • The Put/Call Ratio: How to Read Options Sentiment and Spot Crowded Extremes

    28 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The put/call ratio divides the number of put contracts traded by the number of call contracts traded over the same period. A reading above one means puts traded more heavily than calls, and a reading below one means calls led. Traders use it as a gauge of options market sentiment, and they read it against […]

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TD Sequential: How Tom DeMark’s 9-13 Exhaustion Indicator Spots Reversals

  • TD Sequential: How Tom DeMark’s 9-13 Exhaustion Indicator Spots Reversals

    28 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    TD Sequential® is Tom DeMark’s trend exhaustion indicator, and it counts bars instead of smoothing price. It runs in two phases: a nine bar Setup and a thirteen bar Countdown. A completed 9 marks a move that may be running out of participants. A completed 13 is the later and rarer version of the same […]

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Max Pain in Options: The Strike Where Buyers Lose Most, and Why Price Drifts There

  • Max Pain in Options: The Strike Where Buyers Lose Most, and Why Price Drifts There

    20 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    Max pain is the settlement price that minimises the total intrinsic value of all open options for one expiry. At that price the writers of those contracts owe the least. Buyers as a group collect the least too, which is where the name comes from. The theory attached to it says price tends to drift […]

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Iceberg Orders: How Institutions Hide Large Orders, and How to Spot Them

  • Iceberg Orders: How Institutions Hide Large Orders, and How to Spot Them

    20 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    An iceberg order is a large limit order that displays only a small slice of its true size. The rest stays hidden, and refreshes automatically as each visible slice fills. The name is literal: the market sees the tip, and the mass sits below the surface. Exchanges also call it a reserve order, and the […]

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Maintenance Margin: The Minimum Equity to Keep a Trade Open, and How to Avoid a Margin Call

  • Maintenance Margin: The Minimum Equity to Keep a Trade Open, and How to Avoid a Margin Call

    18 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    Maintenance margin is the minimum equity your account must hold to keep a leveraged position open. If losses pull equity below that floor, the broker issues a margin call, and continued decline brings forced liquidation. The requirement protects both sides of the account: it stops your losses growing beyond the deposit, and it spares the […]

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The Schaff Trend Cycle (STC): A Faster MACD, Its Settings, Signals, and Limits

  • The Schaff Trend Cycle (STC): A Faster MACD, Its Settings, Signals, and Limits

    18 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) is a momentum oscillator developed by currency trader Doug Schaff that combines the MACD with a stochastic calculation. It oscillates between 0 and 100 and is designed to identify trend direction and turning points faster than the MACD alone. In practice it behaves like a quicker, cycle-aware upgrade of a […]

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The Best Forex Pairs to Trade During the Asian Session: A Complete Guide

  • The Best Forex Pairs to Trade During the Asian Session: A Complete Guide

    30 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The best forex pairs to trade during the Asian session are the ones whose home markets are actually open: USD/JPY, AUD/USD and NZD/USD first, then the yen crosses AUD/JPY, EUR/JPY and GBP/JPY, with USD/CNH for traders who want direct exposure to Chinese flow. Everything else tends to drift sideways on thin volume until Europe arrives. […]

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The Best RSI Settings for 1-Minute Chart Scalping: A Complete Strategy Guide

  • The Best RSI Settings for 1-Minute Chart Scalping: A Complete Strategy Guide

    30 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The most widely used RSI settings for 1-minute scalping are a period of 5 to 9 with the levels moved out to 80 and 20, filtered by a 20 period EMA so that only signals in the direction of the prevailing trend are taken. That combination exists because the default configuration, period 14 with 70 […]

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The Ultimate Guide to the TTM Squeeze Indicator: Setup, Rules, and Strategy

  • The Ultimate Guide to the TTM Squeeze Indicator: Setup, Rules, and Strategy

    29 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The TTM Squeeze indicator identifies periods of unusually low volatility that often come before large directional moves. It does this by comparing two familiar tools: when the Bollinger Bands contract entirely inside the Keltner Channels, the market is compressed and the indicator marks a squeeze. When the bands expand back outside the channels, the squeeze […]

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