Replace Your Income with Options

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Thomas Hughes started trading October 5th, 2005. Some friends took him to a seminar where he was taught how to buy/sell stocks. It was exactly what Thomas wanted to learn. He started his adventure learning about trading and options. In all of his years in school, he was never taught that trading and investing was where there was money to be made. Thoma...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It What makes a great trader? Is it some magical natural ability? Or some sort of learned skill? According to Boris Schlossberg—the founder of BKForex—there are two traits that great traders have: Humility and a constant willingness to learn. You must start every day embracing those concepts. What else does Boris believe leads to a great trading career? L...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Phil Muscatello launched a podcast about 2.5 years ago called “Shares for Beginners” (“shares” are what they call “stocks” in Australia). It took off quickly. Phil has a background in radio and thought podcasting was a good way to use his skills and talents. His podcast was a great way to learn more about trading and gather insights that he could also...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (more commonly known as “T. Boone Pickens”) was born May 22, 1928, and died September 11, 2019. He was a notable business magnate and investor, most well-known for his position as the founding member of the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He’s also been coined as a takeover operator, corporate raider, and greenmailer. He made...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Dr. Alan Ellman started trading options in the 1990s. He began with buying and selling stock. When reading an article about IRAs, he learned some allowed you to trade options. He had always heard that options were risky. But he decided to look into it, and covered calls attracted his attention. He taught himself that strategy and the rest is history. N...

Send us Fan Mail Wally Olopade is the Chief Technical Strategist at Right Side Trading. Wally founded Right Side Trading in 2013. He full-blown quit his job and dove in. Long story short, he blew his account three times—but didn’t give up. Instead, he started studying technical analysis. He didn’t want to have to rely on the media, experts, etc. It took him three years to perfect his strategy. In...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It How does the 80/20 rule (i.e. the Pareto principle ) apply to trading? What is one of the best ways for traders to learn from their mistakes? How long does it take to become a successful trader? These are just a few of the questions we dissect with Rob Booker in this episode of the How To Trade It podcast. If you’re constantly looking for ways to becom...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Eddie Z’s dad was a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange. Ever since Eddie was 7 years old, his Dad would take him to the trading floor. He loved seeing the men yelling and screaming. Any of the rules about “language” at home didn’t apply on the floor.  When Eddie graduated high school, he got a job as a clerk on the floor. The first thing...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It John Thomas—the Mad Hedge Fund Trader—made his first trade 60 years ago on his Dad’s brokerage account at 11-years-old . He started trading full-time in 1973. From observations, he learned that people knew nothing about the market but were making millions of dollars. From talking to a lot of people that knew a little, he learned a lot. He tried differe...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It This episode kicks off a new type of episode where I’m going to talk about the life of trading legends. I’ll talk about their history, share some research, and study some of their trading techniques. What can we learn from their life? How can we apply it to our lives and trading? In this first edition, we’re going to look at the life of the famed Jesse...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Micah has been trading options for over 12 years. He’s done everything from buying and selling calls and puts, to spreads, to butterflies, and advanced trading. He loves the complexity of options trading. Micah is also the CEO of WallStreet.io, which is a social network for traders. They’ve also built the fastest stock and options backtesting tool in t...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Richard Moglen started trading after taking an introductory class on technical analysis in the stock market. It was a crash course into the CANSLIM investing methodology developed by William O’Neill. O’Neill studied the greatest winning stocks and boiled them down to their characteristics, which is now called CANSLIM.  Richard started his YouTube chann...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It In this episode of How To Trade It, I speak with Andrew Bustamante. Not only is he the founder of Everyday Spy, but he’s also a former covert CIA operative who lived and worked undercover. During this time, he learned to understand how the human mind works. He also learned how to dominate and overcome his fear. When he left the CIA in 2014 to have a fa...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Fundamental analysis is analyzing the stock market by looking at economic, social, and political forces and observing how they impact currency prices. Yohay Elam—the founder of Forex Crunch and the Senior Analyst at FXStreet —is enthusiastic about technical analysis, macroeconomics, fundamental analysis, and everything related to market movement. How d...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It How do you make money with covered calls when the stock market is doing well? What is the best strategy to employ? How do you keep from losing consistently? Dan Passarelli set out to solve that problem for traders. In this episode of How To Trade It, we take a deep-dive into covered calls, a discussion of theta, time spreads, and much more. If you’re r...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It One of the biggest myths that Steven Brooks hears is that “In order to make more money I have to risk more money.” Because of that, traders feel that they have to risk a lot. But Steven believes you can make more money by risking less . In his experience, success in trading has little to do with your strategy. Steven believes that profits are a result...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Why does institutional order flow matter for options trading? What is unusual options activity? Andrew Keene—the CEO of AlphaShark Trading —joins me in this episode of How To Trade It to talk about his options trading strategy. Andrew traded at the Chicago Board Options Exchange for over 10 years as a market maker. Andrew has spent years watching order...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It What is money flow? How do you use a money flow indicator? John Seville—the CEO of Acorn Wealth Corp—joins me in this episode of How To Trade It to talk about money flow, volume, risk management, and more. John’s trading journey hasn’t been without challenges but he loves the puzzle of the market and figuring out new ways to continue to make money trad...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Serge Berger is one of the first guests I had the privilege of interviewing and is THE first return guest on the show. Since the last episode, Serge is now part of a portfolio management business, Blue Marlin Advisors . They research, advise, and execute trades. Serge also runs The Steady Trader , where you can get daily trading tips based on his metho...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It What is the Six-Legged Dragonfly futures options trading strategy? What is the appeal of it over simpler trading strategies? How does Altavest’s technology ThetaTrader make the process easier? Erik Gebhard—the co-founder and CEO of Altavest—shares what it is and how you can make it happen with their technology—ThetaTrader. If options trading is up your...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It How do institutional traders move the markets? How do they think? How does it influence the actions that they take? Greg Michalowski, who is now the Director of Education and Technical Analyst for Forex Live, had years of experience in institutional trading. So in this episode of How To Trade It, he shares what he learned and how it can be applied as a...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Cameron Bennion has been investing in the stock market since he was 16 after placing first in a stock market challenge at his high school. He had plans to go into medicine because he thought becoming a doctor was the way to financial freedom. His goal was to learn more about stocks so he could turn his future salary into a retirement fund. But his coll...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Most options traders buy a call or a put. With a call option, you want the stock price to go up. If you buy the put option, you want the stock price to go down. It’s the way most options traders trade. But what if you want to be on the other side and sell options? What are the best strategies to maximize your wins and minimize your losses? In this epis...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It The 70s and 80s were the pinnacle of market letters. Tim was fascinated by them. He’d read the market news from people like Joe Granville and Stan Weinstein. At the time, People thought technical analysis was hocus-pocus—the focus was on the fundamentals. But Tim started to learn about technical analysis from Granville and Weinstein and he couldn’t go...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Tom Sosnoff is one of the people that created thinkorswim—the well-known Options trading platform. After college, Tom got a job with a boutique brokerage firm. He went through their training program and ultimately ended up leaving and moving to Chicago, where he’s stayed for 40 years—20 of which were spent working at the Chicago Board Options Exchange....