Course Summary

Professional Options Trading

Honestly, this module isn't just for professional traders; it's for anyone who wants to eventually have options replace some (or all) of their monthly income. Because the reality is that mindset is everything if you truly want to earn a living trading options. The business of trading full-time requires just 2 things to be successful; the ability and drive to be both consistent and persistent. Consistent in your strategy and persistent in lots of trades so that the probabilities play out over time. It won't happen overnight we'll show you what it takes to make it a reality in 3-5 years.

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Course Outline

12 Video Lessons

Why Does It Have To Be Complicated?

Why Does It Have To Be Complicated?

What we present here at Option Alpha and inside this membership area is a straight-forward approach to options trading that is systematized....
Long-Term Consistency

Long-Term Consistency

Consistency is like a marriage, over time it gets better and more solidified. Today I want to show you with hard facts why the longer you tr...
The Importance of Liquidity

The Importance of Liquidity

The term liquidity refers to how fast something can be entered or exited and turned into cold, hard cash (the kind you stick in your wallet)...
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More "Robot-Like" Trading

One of the main ways to increase our trading consistently is to have a set of rules, guidelines, system, plan (whatever you want to call it)...
Number of Trades You Need To Make

Number of Trades You Need To Make

Do you know how many trades should you make each week/month/year in order to reach your goals? Great question and we'll cover the specifics...
Diversify Across Options Strategies

Diversify Across Options Strategies

When you start to trade more often and with more positions, diversifying across different strategies become important. And while we want to ...
Optimal Probability Level

Optimal Probability Level

Today we want to answer a question we get often which is "Is there an optimal probability level to sell options at?" Now remember that you c...
The Cost of Slippage

The Cost of Slippage

You’ve often heard us talk about the important of trading liquid options until you are blue in the face right? Well today we’ll put a dollar...
Maximum Capital Usage

Maximum Capital Usage

Options trading is both highly leveraged and highly lucrative. It's very easy to consistently generate abnormally high returns on individual...
Reducing Margin Requirements

Reducing Margin Requirements

With larger accounts you'll want to trade slightly more undefined risk trades. These give us the biggest P&L at the end of the year but of c...
Cutting Your Commissions

Cutting Your Commissions

Each year around the same time I contact my broker to negotiate the commission rate I pay per option contract. I’ve done this consistently f...
Paper vs. Real Money Trading

Paper vs. Real Money Trading

With paper trading no real money is put at risk, instead “Monopoly Money” or “Paper Money” is used, hence the name. I am a firm believer tha...

Course Objectives

What You'll Learn:

  • The importance of developing a consistent and persistent options trading system.
  • Understanding the law of large numbers and how it nearly guarantees success over time.
  • Calculating expected portfolio returns and overall income generation.
  • Using paper trading to your advantage to test and perfect your trading system.
  • How to cut your commission and scale your portfolio as you invest/earn more money.

Course Intructor

Kirk Du Plessis

Founder & CEO at Option Alpha. Former Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banking Analyst for Deutsche Bank in New York, REIT Analyst for BB&T Capital Markets in Washington D.C., and consultant for multiple funds, family offices, and financial advisors. He’s been featured in dozens of publications including Barron's, Smart Money, Forbes, Nasdaq, and MarketWatch.

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