Stock Market Options Trading

Have a small trading account but thinking about trading options? You're in luck as this episode shows how trading TLT bull call spreads the past 5 years made over 600% and is perfect for small trading accounts.  The bull call spread strategy discussed here is also known as an in out debit spread. An in out debit spread is a vertical spread where the option you buy is in the money and the opti...

I learned a lot from this great discussion with Brian Terry CFP. Brian shared his conservative covered call strategy where he is selling in the money calls on stocks using weekly options with the intent of getting called away every week. I've known Brian for a couple years now and I know he leans on the conservative side of trading and he thinks this strategy is great for conservative traders in r...

Index Options Explained To receive the free Index Options Mini Course, go to https://OptionsTrading.help/IndexOptions and I'll send you the 7 part video series to get your trading profitably on your own in as little as 1 week.  The 7 part video series includes a weekly options strategy for SPX showing you exactly how to put this trade on every week. It also includes a 5 year performance look...

Which option should I buy? Thanks for listenting to this week's Stock Market Otpions Trading podcast comparing the results of buying different Delta call options on AAPL the past 5 years. To recap the optons trading strategy that was used, we backtested buying a call option with about 30 days to expiration when AAPL crossed back above its 21ema and closed the trade afetr 14 calendar days. By takin...

Thanks for listening to this week's Stock Market Options Trading podcast about using Bollinger Bands as an entry signal when the RUT crosses above the upper band. Here's the link the Patreon article for podcast supporters to see more details around the 4 different credit spreads discussed in the episode. (You may need to copy then paste into your browser) https://bit.ly/2WX6W5s Becoming a Podcast...

Thanks for listening to this week's episode of investing in work from home stocks. The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the remote work theme as more and more people are choosing to stay home if they can. As we discussed, working from home also gives benfit to the company in the form of less overhead costs such as rent and increased talent pool for finding better workers who may not live in the s...

http://robintrack.net pulls price and popularity numbers for stocks from Robinhood's API and displays it in a sentiment style graph for free.  This free website is a great idea in terms of data sharing but definitely has some drawbacks that I discuss in this episode. Thanks for listening. J. Eric O'Rourke https://www.patreon.com/VerticalSpreadOptionsTrading #robinhood 

We're expanding last week's weekly options study by adding a moving average filter to our trades. The goal here is to determine if adding a would be bullish filter will improve the results of this already profitable strategy of trading bull put spreads with 7 days to expiration on SPY and SPX.  This episode is an expansion of Episode 7 so here's the link if you'd like to go back and listen to...

I'm sharing a 3 year study in this episode around trading weekly options on SPY and SPX. There are 3 expirations per week. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and I wanted to see if there was a difference in performance if you were to sell put credit spreads with 7 days to expiration on each of those days? So I backtested selling 7DTE spreads on each of those days going back 3 years from late May 2020 t...

Al Losada is the founder of Simple Option Strategies. Here are a few ways to find more about him online. Website: https://www.simpleoptionstrategies.com/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/simpleoptionstrategies YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZVqsvTI4oZcXLjt_0JQ5Fg Thanks for listening and stayed tuned for Part 2 of trading SPX options with Al Losada. J. Eric O'Rou...

Special guest Al Losada is on the show today talking SPX options trading. The episode went over an hour so I decided to split into two separate episodes.  In this first episode, Al and I discuss how we both ended up trading SPX options. One commonality we shared was a book we both read that helped get us into SPX credit spreads called Profiting with Iron Condor Options by Michael Hanania Benk...

There are different ways to get long and different ways to trade with leverage.    In this episode, we're going to look at both by comparing two leveraged ways of getting long the S&P500. We're going to use the buy and sell signals of the Pure Alpha Strategy as applied to the SPY.   We'll discuss the results of trading shares of SSO based on the buy and sell signals of...

A Crisis Alpha Strategy is meant to generate profits during market corrections, pullbacks, or even black swan type events and can be traded as a stand alone strategy. In this episode, we'll discuss a quantitative trend following strategy called the Pure Alpha Strategy applied to UVXY which is a leveraged volatility product. Check out this article for more information on UVXY. https://sixfigureinve...

Check out the SPX Income Masterclass: https://www.stockmarketoptionstrading.net/spaces/4688450 If you're new options trading, I think you're really going enjoy this episode on what I think is the best options strategy for beginning options traders. It's one thing to understand the mechanics of options, but in this episode we're going to look at trading this strategy as running an insurance company...

When the stock market pulls back, volatility rises. Once the pull back is over, getting long the stock market at this time can be very profitable. In this episode, we'll discuss a research study of buying SPY call options after a volatility spike. We'll be using VXX as a volatility measure and exactly what we're looking for in VXX to get long. Thanks for listening, subscribing, and sharing. For mo...