How to Use the VIX as a Trading Indicator
Trading Education S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 10, 2026 · 8 min read Volatility VIX The VIX gets called the market’s ‘fear gauge,’ and that nickname is both why people pay attention to it and why most of them use it wrong. The VIX is not a buy or sell signal. […]
What Is IV Crush and How to Avoid It
Options Trading S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 9, 2026 · 8 min read Options Volatility IV crush is one of those concepts that sounds technical until it happens to you — and then it’s painfully clear. You buy an option, the stock moves in your direction, and the option still drops […]
How to Trade Options Around Earnings Without Getting Crushed
Options Trading S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 8, 2026 · 9 min read Options Earnings Earnings season is where a lot of new options traders learn an expensive lesson: you can be completely right about the direction and still lose money. The stock gaps up 8% after a great report, your […]
Meta Trading Club Review 2026 — Is It Worth the $99/Month?
Trading Community S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 7, 2026 · 8 min read Community Review If you’re considering Meta Trading Club, you probably have one real question: is it worth $99 a month, or is it another trading community that’s all hype and no substance? This review answers that as honestly […]
Trading Expectancy Explained: How to Know If Your Edge Actually Works
Ask most traders if their strategy works and they’ll point to a recent winner. That’s not evidence — it’s a memory. The real answer lives in one number that combines how often you win with how much you win and lose: expectancy.
Best Trading Books in 2026 — Ranked by Real Traders
Books are where most traders start, and they should be. A good trading book can save you years of expensive mistakes by handing you frameworks that took the author a career to learn. But there’s a catch nobody mentions: reading about trading and trading are different skills, and the gap between them is where most people get stuck.
Weekly vs Monthly Options: Which Should You Be Trading?
Options Trading S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 3, 2026 · 8 min read Options Expiration One of the first real decisions you make on any options trade is which expiration to choose. Weekly options expire in days. Monthly options give you weeks. They look similar on the chain, but they behave […]
How to Set a Stop Loss the Right Way
Almost every blown account has the same cause: not the entries, the exits. Specifically, the missing or badly-placed stop loss. Learn how to set a stop loss the right way by finding where you’re wrong on the chart, then sizing your position to that distance.
The Best Options Strategies for Beginners (Ranked by Risk Level)
Most beginners start options trading by buying calls and puts because it’s the simplest thing to understand. It’s also one of the faster ways to lose money — not because the strategy is bad, but because it’s the highest-risk way to start and nobody told them. This guide ranks beginner-friendly strategies from lowest risk to highest, so you can build in the right order instead of starting at the deep end.
How to Develop Your Own Trading System From Scratch
Trading Education S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · June 30, 2026 · 9 min read System Process Most traders never build a system. They collect setups, copy ideas, and trade on a shifting mix of instinct and whatever they read last week — then wonder why their results are random. A trading system […]
