OAP 105: How To Protect Your Portfolio In A Down Market
The further the markets continue to run higher, the greater the risk that another major market correction or market crash will happen in the near future. After all, as we pointed out in Show #15, the stock market has fallen 9 times at least 30% which is once every 10 years. Right now we’re riding…
OAP 104: How To Use Pairs Trading With Options To Create Smooth Portfolio Growth
On today’s newest podcast I want to turn the conversation a bit and focus on pairs trading with options. And this isn’t the traditional pairs trading that you might have heard about before where you short one stock and buy another related stock to profit from any trending differences or divergences in the underlying price.…
OAP 103: How to Pick the Right Stock Options Strategy For Wealth Building
Even after discussing and outlining the general process for how to pick the right stock options strategy in previous podcast and videos, I continue to get members who are confused how it should work and the steps one might take. I ultimately believe that in most cases you might be over-thinking it especially when it…
OAP 102: Are You Selling Options That Are Way Too Cheap?
When selling options, often I get a question or inquiry from members of our community with regard to how far out of the money we should sell our options and set our positions. Now, I typically target around the 70% probability of success area for my short option selling trades, but others have often wondered…
OAP 101: The Ultimate Guide To Profitably Trading Options Full-Time
I believe that on some level every new trader dreams of trading options full time and not working a regular job. The reality is however, that you’re need a lot of capital before you make the leap to full time trading and that means you’ll have to learn how to effectively trading options while working…
OAP 100: The Profit Matrix – The Game-Changing Report On The Best Option Strategies For Any Market
Not only is today special because we’re releasing our newest research report called The Profit Matrix but also because as soon as this show goes live we’ll have crossed more than 1,000,000 downloads on the podcast. Crazy coincidence but it’s true and very humbling, so thank you to all of you who have supported and…
OAP 099: Why Automated Trading Will Dominate The Investing World & What You Can Do Now To Prepare
The investing world in the next 5-10 years is going to look dramatically different. In fact, the shift to automated trading is already happening at the highest levels and with the biggest hedge funds. So, why is this happening? Why can’t we just ignore it? And what can we do now to position ourselves to…
OAP 098: The End Of Uncertainty & How “Risk” Can Be Managed With Expectancy
The markets are evolving faster and faster as the introduction and use of computer-driven or data-driven trading systems start to hit exponential growth rates. So, the question becomes, is this the end of systematic risk and market uncertainty? To put it bluntly, no – in fact, never will we reach a point at which there…
OAP 097: Expected vs. Actual Win Rates When Selling Options [SPY Short Strangle Backtest]
Today we’re going to use our new Trader’s Toolbox and options backtesting software to test win rates when selling options. Because the truth is many people have this huge “rub” with options trading and expected vs. actual win rates. They assume that if we place a new trade with an initial probability of success of…
OAP 096: Does Higher Implied Volatility Generate Higher Credits? [DIA Put Credit Spread Backtest]
Today we wanted to use our new options backtesting software under our Trader’s Toolbox to run some credit spread backtests on DIA. Namely we were trying to determine if selling options during higher implied volatility markets actually generates a higher net credit for the position or not? Plus, we tweaked the allocations just a bit…
