Backtesting

The iron butterfly strategy is popular for traders of all experience levels. This episode explores the basics and provides 8 actionable suggestions you should consider before placing your next trade.

Follow along step-by-step as we build a bot and update automations. Learn how to use the Backtester to identify a strategy and create a bot template with simple, specific decision criteria.

This podcast walks through the two macro trend bots we built to demonstrate how you can start leveraging the new automation tools at Option Alpha to trade either stocks or options in a trend.

It’s well documented that investors not only chase performance, ultimately yielding sub-par performance in pursuit, but they also do not have enough patience to stick with strategies long enough. My hope is that it ends today. You should objectively look at strategies for what their expected outcome range is, not what it’s done recently.

We’re excited and honored to have a very special guest on the podcast, Richard Hudson. We discuss the misbehavior of markets and why financial models are flawed.

In the world of investing, and specifically trading options, you need to live by certain rules that keep you safe and protected from the unknowns of the market. These are the 11 golden rules to follow.

The truth is that you are going to have losing trades, a lot of them, over the course of your career. The first step on your road to elevating yourself is to ask yourself, "Can I trust the process?"

This podcast is dedicated to the 17 most popular questions we are asked by Option Alpha members.

In this episode, we use backtesting results take a deeper look at whether it is more profitable to sell options 60 days out or 30 days out from expiration.

On this episode, we use our backtesting software to analyze the results of a weekly bull call spread in DIA, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF, and its performance compared to a monthly bull call spread in DIA.

In this podcast episode, I'll preview some of the new research we've done on long straddle option strategies during earnings.

In this episode we're going to use our new Trader's Toolbox and options backtesting software to test win rates when selling options.

In this podcast episode we use our new options backtesting software to analyze credit spread backtests on DIA. We wanted to find out if higher implied volatility collects higher premium when selling put credit spreads.

Given that we've now got a whole suite of tools and scanners for you to use, we have to consolidate it under one roof, which is why we now have a new Toolbox for backtesting option strategies.

In this show I reveal the results from our call debit spread backtest we ran on AAPL and how changing the strike prices impacted the overall returns and drawdowns of this bullish strategy. If you've ever thought of buying options, you need to listen to this show.

Trading timelines & durations are often confusing and cumbersome for new investors. We'll look at how they affect the performance results of a straddle backtest.

In this episode we use our new backtesting software to observe the effect different position sizing has on the returns of an iron condor.

I wanted to take a step back and give everyone an overview of what we've been working on here at Option Alpha and what we have planned over the next couple months with backtesting, research, and automation.

Use historical data to better understand inevitable portfolio drawdowns. In this show, you'll see a small glimpse of the power behind backtesting and modeling thousands of option strategies. It was by far one of the most anticipated shows for me to record and I hope you find incredible value in listening.

Still using stop-loss orders in your option trades? In this episode, you'll discover how one simple tweak generates average annual returns that are 87% higher and win rates that are 2X higher, all while making fewer trades and spending less on commission costs.

If you are looking for the ultimate strategy to profit from the next stock market crash, this podcast is for you. We went to 2007 and backtested 15 different put option buying strategies to see which combination produced the most profitable results during the last market crash.

Today I'm going to give you a very special sneak peak inside our new technical analysis backtesting report called SIGNALS. Using backtest results, we show how changing just one setting increased a win rate by more than double.

SIGNALS is our 20-year technical analysis backtesting report. Here is a look at the results of tracking 17.34 MILLION technical analysis trades over 20 years.

We all suffer from common investor biases. Which of these top 8 investor biases cloud your judgment the most?