OAP 151: Adjusting Short Straddles For $540 Profit (EWZ Case Study)
All over the internet, you’ll hear stories of why short straddles and short strangles should be avoided at all costs. Stories of how trading “undefined” risk positions can blow up your account when the market moves against you quickly. And while position sizing still needs to be managed appropriately, the fact remains that properly adjusting…
OAP 150: How To Manage Your Money & Generate Wealth The Right Way
As much as I love options trading and following the financial markets, I enjoy the challenge and process of building wealth. I think about wealth building as a 3-step process in broad terms, possibly in the shape of a pyramid even. And since it’s our 150th show, I figured I would take a slightly new…
OAP 149: Assigned Option Contract Case Study In Gold ETF GLD
For some reason many traders fear being assigned option contracts as part of an option strategy. Maybe it’s the large capital requirement to hold the shares or just the “unknown” around how to manage the position. But, like most things in life, when you slow down and take the time to walk through the position…
OAP 148: The 5×2 Trading Psychology Matrix
No system is perfect. No trader is perfect. You will have losing trades. But it’s how you react to those losing trades, or even false positive trades, that defines how long you’ll survive in this business. Today’s show focuses on what I’m calling the 5×2 “Victim Matrix” in which there are 2 paths you can…
OAP 147: Interview w/ Former CBOE Options Market Maker David Lincoln
Did you ever wonder what an options market maker is thinking or how they see the markets and regular traders like us? After all, these guys are the ones that are making markets in different securities each week. So, I invited one on the podcast to ask him questions and learn more about the “other…
OAP 146: Are You Making These 11 Common Options Strategy Mistakes?
If you trade options and are struggling to find consistency or profitability it’s likely because you are breaking, knowingly or unknowingly, some important rules. Rules that are designed to keep you safe, protect your portfolio, and cater to the math and probabilities that drive any options selling system. On this episode, I’ll walk thru the…
OAP 145: Backtesting Results Trading Monthly vs. Bi-Monthly Options For 10 Years
Is less more? Often we hear this phrase thrown about with the assumption that when investing you should do less, sit on your hands or trade further out, in order to generate higher profits and better returns. But is this really the case and does the math and data prove this to be the point?…
OAP 144: Interview w/ Larry Connors – Buy the Fear, Sell the Greed Book Review
On today’s podcast we bring in a very special interview guest, Larry Connors, and discuss his new book Buy the Fear, Sell the Greed. Larry is an established author in the trading and equities space and I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation about market dynamics, trading psychology, VXX pricing structures, and the future of the industry…
OAP 143: What’s The Rationale Behind Entering New Option Trades?
Choosing which ticker symbols and option strategies to use when entering new option trades can sometimes seem overwhelming. In fact, many of our pro and elite members continually ask about the rationale behind why we choose one ticker symbol over another or use one strategy over another when building our portfolio. Today’s podcast will help…
OAP 142: EWZ Short Put Option Assignment Case Study
Many new options traders worry about what might happen to their portfolio during a short put option assignment scenario. They wonder how they can recover or if they have enough capital to hold onto the stock position. Just a few weeks ago we were assigned on one of our short put options in EWZ and…
