Options Trading Education Articles

Why Portfolio Margin Traders Need to Continue Paper Trading

As a portfolio margin trader, you are an experienced trader. We understand that. So we know that the benefits of paper trading may seem marginal. However, it’s worth your time to experiment with alternative approaches through paper trading to hone in on holes in your existing PM trading plan. . Read More

How to Choose the Right Option Strategy

In this article we discuss a simple approach to evaluating underlying and determining which options strategy to use.. Read More

How to Trade the Fiscal Cliff

Have you done your fiscal cliff research yet? If not, here are the important to know details and how you can take advantage of this event. . Read More

Seasonal Market Trends, The Santa Claus Rally

Do you believe in the Santa Claus Rally? Do you think it's just another stock market theory that we're all supposed to accept? We have the real numbers behind this theory inside this article.. Read More

Gift Guide For Day Traders and Investors

Ever wonder what type of gifts traders and investors would love to have? Now you no longer have to wonder. Get them these presents and they will thank you all the way to the bank. . Read More

Option Delta – A Major Key to Successful Options Trading

Delta is an option Greek and one of the major keys to options trading profitability. Understanding what delta is and how to use it can really increase your odds of options trading success.. Read More

The Psychology of a Successful Options Trader

When you create a systematic trading plan and discipline your powerful mind, you effectively remove emotions from your decisions. Removing emotions may not be good for some aspects of your life, but it is critical for options trading.. Read More

Top 6 Countries for Day Traders [INFOGRAPHIC]

We have sorted through and filtered out the best countries that serve as day trading havens. After evaluating local tax laws, visa accessibility, cost of living, and quality of life, we found 6 standout countries that met our criteria. . Read More

Free Popular Options Trading Strategies

We have put together a list of popular proven options trading strategies that you can use as a guide to tackle the markets. . Read More

Test Drive Our Student Site and Be Amazed

We address the questions about whether our options education program is real or not. Let us show you and you can decide for yourself. . Read More

9 Ways to IMPROVE Your Options Trading Today

Let us show you 9 actionable steps that you can take on today to improve your options trading. . Read More

Credit Spreads Explained

In this article we will show you what credit spreads are and how you can profit from them. From there we provide you 3 ways you can reduce your risk when dealing with credit spreads. . Read More

Investment and Option Trading Newsletters

If you are looking to join an investment or option trading newsletter, you need to be able to distinguish a quality newsletter from a junk one. Here are tips that will help you filter out the noise.. Read More

6 Investment Myths That Can Hurt You

Here we debunk common investment myths that debilitate new investor decisions. Conventional wisdom should definitely be listened to; however, following this wisdom at a blind eye can potentially HURT your investing performance.. Read More

Streamline Your Technical Analysis and Profit

For many option traders, technical analysis is often one of the first steps to entering a position. Most of us already know the basics such as support & resistance or using trend channels. Sometimes, that may be enough to get by, but more often than not, it isn’t. . Read More

Why Options

It’s time to throw out the “options are risky” sentiment and truly understand why many investors actually trade them.. Read More

What Are Options?

An introduction to option basics. We conceptualize and explain options in Layman's terms so anyone can understand them. . Read More

Trading With Dual Vega

So you might ask... "What is Dual Vega option trading?" Most option traders are not aware that this concept even exists... . Read More

Commodities vs. Financials

This study would indicate that trading Corn and other Commodities may be less volatile than trading the Financials such as the RUT, SPX and NDX.. Read More

The High Probabiilty Credit Spread - Is It A Mirage?

Credit spreads are one of the most popular instruments used in Option Trading. The question is why. It's simple. The Credit Spread is the easiest spread to understand for beginning option traders, but does this make it a good strategy?. Read More

The Unbalanced Condor

This strategy has been around for a while I am sure, but for some reason, it's not very popular. Personally, I have been studying options for over a decade now, and I took many popular courses that you'll find on the Internet. After spending nearly $50,000 on my options education, I find it rather intriguing and erroneous that most option courses are not teaching this strategy.. Read More

The True Risk with Popular Option Strategies

Did You Lose Over The Flash Crash? The biggest difference in trading low-risk option strategies compared to the popular income strategies is that the time to recover from a debacle is very different. For example, over the recent “computer glitch,” those who were trading iron condors as income spreads lost about 50 to 70% over that two-week period.. Read More

Worried How Your Credit Spread Will Fare if the Market Reverses?

Credit spreads have a high mathematical likelihood of achieving profitability. So why don’t I consider them one of my favorite types of trades? Because they also have a high probability of risk, and that means stress. Credit spreads are highly directional and that by itself implants the kind of risk into the trade that you have to watch like a hawk.. Read More

Recent Regulation Changes with Broken Wing Butterflies

Recently, brokers had to change the buying power effect calculation on Broken Wing Butterflies, making them cost more than before. So to comply with recent regulations we find it's better to use unbalanced Butterflies instead of Broken Wing Butterflies if you want to take advantage of this strategy.. Read More

Options Mentoring

I had an interesting conversation with an option trader today who is still searching for the secret to making consistent returns with option trading. He said many things that I absolutely agreed with.. Read More

Option Greeks Demystified - Part 1

If you want to be a successful option trader, then you have to understand the Greeks on a deep level. Here we've included an detailed video for you... . Read More

Option Greeks Demystified - Part 2

A broker loses 1.5 Million Dollars on an Iron Condor because he didn't understand the option Greeks.. Read More

Option Greeks Demystified - Part 3

We continue with IV charting and how to recognize changes in direction by using the MACD Divergence technical indicator. As we forecast IV it gives us a foundation to construct our option trades according to our future outlook.. Read More

Option Greeks Demystified - Part 4

We finish up on Delta and then discuss Gamma, Theta and Vega. We talk about how flattening Gamma, Delta and Vega while maximizing Theta is really the ultimate options position. This is something that we have learned to focus on with San Jose Options.. Read More

Option Greeks Demystified - Part 5

We compare how the location of our strikes is so important, and in fact, we have ways to control our Vega, Delta and Theta position simply by locating our strikes in different places on the option chain.. Read More

Option Greeks Demystified - Part 6

In the last part of this class we analyze 3 different types of Credit Spreads to illustrate the effectiveness of what we just taught you. Now you know how to cut your risk down by 70% as well as how to save on commissions if you plan on doing Credit Spreads.. Read More

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