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Using Folders for Organizing and Grouping Bot Automations
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Test Automations Directly Inside the Automation Editor
5 min video
When to Group Decisions Together and When to Separate Them into Multiple Steps
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Grouping and Nesting Decisions for More Powerful Automations
8 min video
Top 5 Ways to Reduce Your Options Trading Commissions
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19 Famous Quotes from Great Investors
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Trading Psychology – 5 Tips to Help Control Your Emotions
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How Can I Exit a Vertical Option Spread Without Getting Creamed?
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Digging for New Stock and Options Trading Ideas
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TD Ameritrade Commission Negotiation: How I Did It
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14 Characteristics of Highly Successful Option Traders
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Problems Getting Your Option Order Filled? Try These 3 Quick Adjustments
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What to Know About Proper Position Sizing when Trading
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What Can I Realistically Make My First Year Trading Stocks and Options?
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10 Reasons Why Options Trading Liquidity is Vital
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How Much Money Do You Need to Trade Options
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12 Can’t Fail Steps on How to Place Your First Option Trade Tomorrow
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10 Golden Rules for Trading Success Regardless of What You Trade
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14 Stages of Investor Emotions & Trading Psychology
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Why Most People Fail Miserably at Options Trading (And How to Avoid it)
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19 Top Places to Get Real-Time Stock Market Quotes and News
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Why You Should Never Look at Stock Charts Again
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Problems Getting Your Option Order Filled? Try These 3 Quick Adjustments
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Trading Psychology – 5 Tips to Help Control Your Emotions
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TD Ameritrade Commission Negotiation: How I Did It
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What Can I Realistically Make My First Year Trading Stocks and Options?
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How Can I Exit a Vertical Option Spread Without Getting Creamed?
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14 Stages of Investor Emotions & Trading Psychology
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19 Top Places to Get Real-Time Stock Market Quotes and News
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Why Most People Fail Miserably at Options Trading (And How to Avoid it)
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How Much Money Do You Need to Trade Options
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14 Characteristics of Highly Successful Option Traders
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What to Know About Proper Position Sizing when Trading
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10 Golden Rules for Trading Success Regardless of What You Trade
4 min read
19 Famous Quotes from Great Investors
2 min read
Why You Should Never Look at Stock Charts Again
4 min read
12 Can’t Fail Steps on How to Place Your First Option Trade Tomorrow
2 min read
Digging for New Stock and Options Trading Ideas
3 min read
Top 5 Ways to Reduce Your Options Trading Commissions
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10 Reasons Why Options Trading Liquidity is Vital
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Test Automations Directly Inside the Automation Editor
5 min video
Using Folders for Organizing and Grouping Bot Automations
5 min video
When to Group Decisions Together and When to Separate Them into Multiple Steps
10 min video
Grouping and Nesting Decisions for More Powerful Automations
8 min video
Problems Getting Your Option Order Filled? Try These 3 Quick Adjustments
7 min read
How Can I Exit a Vertical Option Spread Without Getting Creamed?
4 min read
What Can I Realistically Make My First Year Trading Stocks and Options?
7 min read
Trading Psychology – 5 Tips to Help Control Your Emotions
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TD Ameritrade Commission Negotiation: How I Did It
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19 Top Places to Get Real-Time Stock Market Quotes and News
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14 Stages of Investor Emotions & Trading Psychology
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How Much Money Do You Need to Trade Options
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12 Can’t Fail Steps on How to Place Your First Option Trade Tomorrow
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Why Most People Fail Miserably at Options Trading (And How to Avoid it)
5 min read
What to Know About Proper Position Sizing when Trading
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10 Golden Rules for Trading Success Regardless of What You Trade
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14 Characteristics of Highly Successful Option Traders
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10 Reasons Why Options Trading Liquidity is Vital
3 min read
Why You Should Never Look at Stock Charts Again
4 min read
19 Famous Quotes from Great Investors
2 min read
Digging for New Stock and Options Trading Ideas
3 min read
Top 5 Ways to Reduce Your Options Trading Commissions
2 min read
Test Automations Directly Inside the Automation Editor
5 min video
When to Group Decisions Together and When to Separate Them into Multiple Steps
10 min video
Using Folders for Organizing and Grouping Bot Automations
5 min video
Grouping and Nesting Decisions for More Powerful Automations
8 min video
Problems Getting Your Option Order Filled? Try These 3 Quick Adjustments
7 min read
Trading Psychology – 5 Tips to Help Control Your Emotions
7 min read
TD Ameritrade Commission Negotiation: How I Did It
4 min read
What Can I Realistically Make My First Year Trading Stocks and Options?
7 min read
How Can I Exit a Vertical Option Spread Without Getting Creamed?
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14 Stages of Investor Emotions & Trading Psychology
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19 Top Places to Get Real-Time Stock Market Quotes and News
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Why Most People Fail Miserably at Options Trading (And How to Avoid it)
5 min read
How Much Money Do You Need to Trade Options
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14 Characteristics of Highly Successful Option Traders
5 min read
What to Know About Proper Position Sizing when Trading
5 min read
10 Golden Rules for Trading Success Regardless of What You Trade
4 min read
19 Famous Quotes from Great Investors
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Why You Should Never Look at Stock Charts Again
4 min read
12 Can’t Fail Steps on How to Place Your First Option Trade Tomorrow
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Digging for New Stock and Options Trading Ideas
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Top 5 Ways to Reduce Your Options Trading Commissions
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10 Reasons Why Options Trading Liquidity is Vital
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Test Automations Directly Inside the Automation Editor
5 min video
Using Folders for Organizing and Grouping Bot Automations
5 min video
When to Group Decisions Together and When to Separate Them into Multiple Steps
10 min video
Grouping and Nesting Decisions for More Powerful Automations
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13 Stock Chart Patterns that You Can’t Afford to Forget
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The Three Best Option Strategies for Earnings
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How Can a Call Option Decline in Value When a Stock Rises?
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What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You About Trading Iron Condors
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4 Must Know Options Expiration Day Traps to Avoid
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Problems Getting Your Option Order Filled? Try These 3 Quick Adjustments
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How to Set Up a Broken-Wing Butterfly Option Strategy
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5-Year SPY Put Credit Spread Backtest
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3 Option Strategies to Use During Low Volatility Markets
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Naked Option Selling: The Stupid Myth of "Unlimited Losses"
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Rising Interest Rates: Taper Tantrum or Opportunity?
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Mastering the 4 Different Types of Option Orders
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How Can I Exit a Vertical Option Spread Without Getting Creamed?
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Portfolio Hedging Strategy with VIX Options
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What Can I Realistically Make My First Year Trading Stocks and Options?
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Trading Psychology – 5 Tips to Help Control Your Emotions
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How to Profit from Volatility Skew Trading Strategies
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Here’s a Quick Way to Hedge Credit Spread Option Strategies
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Building an RSI Swing Trading Bot with Credit Spreads
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When Should You Buy Back the Short Leg on a Credit Spread?
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4 Rules for Generating Profits During Market Declines
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TD Ameritrade Commission Negotiation: How I Did It
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Options Volume Trading Strategy: How to Profit
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19 Top Places to Get Real-Time Stock Market Quotes and News
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Using Diagonal Spreads for Long Term Investing Plus Monthly Cash Flow
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14 Stages of Investor Emotions & Trading Psychology
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How Much Money Do You Need to Trade Options
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Options Technically Don't Expire on the Third Friday
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We Analyzed 20,000 Options Trades: Here’s What We Learned About Position Swings
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Deep-in-the-Money ETF Options Strategy
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Why Most People Fail Miserably at Options Trading (And How to Avoid it)
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10 Golden Rules for Trading Success Regardless of What You Trade
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Tail Risk Pricing Post-Pandemic
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14 Characteristics of Highly Successful Option Traders
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3 Smart Ways to Use SmartStops
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Straddle Option Strategy: Profiting from Big Moves
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Figure Out How Many Options Contracts to Trade
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Is the “Golden Bull Market” Finally Ending?
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Autotrading Is Here: The Doors Are Open
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Backtester Enhancements Unlock Research Superpowers for Options Traders
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Why You Should Never Look at Stock Charts Again
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Bid-Ask Spread Anomalies: 5 Questions Answered
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SmartPricing Released
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When to Hold a Position Before You Cut Losses
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Digging for New Stock and Options Trading Ideas
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Option Alpha Announces Tradier Integration
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Bid-Ask Spread Anomalies: Risk and Opportunity
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Combining Multiple Moving Averages to Trend Follow with Bots
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Bot Template Versioning Released
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3 AAPL Bullish Options Strategies Backtested
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Automatically Scan a Watchlist of Ticker Symbols Inside Your Bots
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Managing Multiple Strategy Types with Monitor Automations
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Have You Peaked?
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Short Options Contract: Exercised or Assigned?
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Top 5 Ways to Reduce Your Options Trading Commissions
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How to Automatically Avoid Trading When Markets are in a Downtrend
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Automated Does Not Mean Unattended
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Bid-Ask Spread Expectations
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Leveraging the Power of Bots to Scan for Trading Opportunities
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Automatically Exit Your Option Trades Before Expiration
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Bot & Position Tags: Where Precision Meets Flexibility
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Introducing Automation "Switches"
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Use Bot-Level Decisions for Added Flexibility
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How to Add a Global VIX Filter to the Beginning of an Automation
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Automated Trading Using Multiple Moving Averages
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Import Your Positions from Your Brokerage Account to Option Alpha
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Expanded Strike Selections Give You Even More Control
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New Community Groups For Targeted Conversations
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Manage Your Positions with Return on Risk
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Create Your Own Custom In-App Notifications
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Introducing the Bot Wizard
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Test Automations Directly Inside the Automation Editor
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Share Bot Automations Just as Easily as Bot Templates
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Automated Trading Decisions Based on a Symbol's Price Change
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Strike Price Selection Enhancements Released
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Compare Multiple Backtests for Unparalleled Strategy Development
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Scanner and Monitor Ordering Released
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New Open High Low Close (OHLC) Stock Decisions
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The Power of Reusable Automations Across Multiple Bots
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How to Setup Your Bot Automations to be Incredibly Flexible
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Automated Trading Using AND/OR Decision Criteria
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New Decisions to Check Bot Trade History & Active Orders
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Master Your Decision Timing With These Automation Sequencing Improvements
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Create Bots Instantly from Any Backtest
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Choose Your Path with these Automation Editor Improvements
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Account Management Improvements Released
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Enhanced Bot Performance Stats
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