The Option Alpha Podcast

Show Notes: http://optionalpha.com/show46 Tax day has come and gone that doesn’t mean that we can’t start preparing in advance for next year by looking ways to reduce or minimize our tax exposure. Today’s newest episode is Part 2 of 3 all about options trading taxes based on the questions that our members submitted. We’ll continue to dive deep into your most requested topics and questions to make...

Show Notes: http://www.optionalpha.com/show45 Did you get flagged as a Pattern Day Trader? Concerned about what can happen if you make too many day trades in a short period of time? In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast, I'll clearly lay out the not-so-scary Pattern Day Trading Rules (PDT) that you can often run into if you're an active trader in either stocks or options. Now, pers...

Show Notes: http://www.optionalpha.com/show44 Options traders often reference the "Greeks" which include delta, gamma, vega and theta of their underlying positions as a way to measure the sensitivity of an option's price to market movements. And while looking at option greeks can be helpful, there's also a big misconception about them... one that trips a lot of traders up early...

Show Notes: http://optionalpha.com/show43 Back in mid-2014 we surveyed our members and it completely changed our business. We overhauled our video training , threw out all the junk and added more in-depth modules and PDF guides that everyone had been asking for. The result was an almost explosive growth in our ability to reach and train people. Realizing just how powerful this was in 2014 I wanted...

Show Notes: http://optionalpha.com/show42 The Stochastics indicator has long been a favorite for investors and could arguably be one of the most popular technical analysis indicators. Today I’m going to show you the results of our backtesting analysis on the Stochastics Indicator and I think you’ll find it extremely useful wWhether you’ve used it before to trade or if this is your first time looki...

Today I’m going to give you a very special sneak peak inside our new technical analysis backtesting report called SIGNALS . Learn more here: http://optionalpha.com/signals Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Absolute Price Oscillator performed over the course of 20 years, testing 223 different stocks and the subsequent signals generated from those trades. What’s the point of telling you a...

Grab your copy here: http://optionalpha.com/show40 We Backtested More Than 17.34 Million Stock Trades Over 20 Years to See What Really Works... Discover the specific indicators that generated winning trades 82% of the time and outperformed the market by 2,602% on average. Read the Entire Report in Just 30 Minutes. Get insights from 12 months of backtesting research of more than 1,476 different tec...

Do you remember the feeling you had the first time you were introduced to  technical analysis or stock charting indicators in general? You were probably at some weekend stock market seminar or watching a video online, and everything just clicked in your mind. The volume signaling that more buyers were present in the market to drive up the price, or the lines showing where support and resistance we...

For years, I've had members ask me about options trading taxes, ways to reduce your taxes, the best legal structures, international trading taxes and hundreds of other questions on the subject. Recently I decided to survey just our PRO and ELITE members to find out what questions they wanted specifically answered when it came to trading taxes. What were the hot-button issues they had and subs...

Part of our mission here at OptionAlpha.com is to offer the highest level of transparency possible in order to help you gain more confidence in your own options trading system. This week we launched our newest feature after spending more than 5 months developing a propriety portfolio tracking software that monitors and reports key statistics and metrics in real-time. This software tracks and categ...

I'm crazy excited to finally bring you my interview with Aram Basmadjian from TradeWithAram.com because it's such a genuine and honest conversation with a guy who continues to grow in his education and love of trading. In fact, he was hesitant at first to come on the show because I reached out to him after emailing back and forth for many months during his time in our membership. But I k...

This week during the FinCon expo in Charlotte I had the opportunity to sit down with "The Options Playbook" author Brian Overby. Brian is also the Senior Options Strategies from TradeKing and this 40+ min LIVE interview covers so much it's hard to summarize it here. Plus, as a very special gift Brian signed 2 copies of his hard copy book for you all. All you have to do is 1) share t...

Being a consistent, profitable options trader doesn't take much. In fact, I'd even go as far to say it takes very little time and effort on a weekly basis. Yet, we've been told in the media (and through other publications and websites) that you have to have lots of money, trade fast or day trade to make it in this business. It couldn't be further from the truth. In today's...

In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast I had a chance to interview Sarah Potter, Author of How You Can Trade Like A Pro and founder of www.shecantrade.com. This self-taught trader will share her story and why this former futures trader quickly migrated over to options trading because of the better fit with her lifestyle. You'll hear Sarah's strategy for only trading weekly options o...

I completely underestimated the power of how to set financial goals until about a year and a half ago. Since then I've changed the way I look at and set goals in all areas of my life (not just financially) and it's made a huge difference. In today's podcast, I want to really take the time to walk through the Top 10 mistakes people make in the goal setting area which can dramatically...

You know the name, and the legacy. But what you don't know about Michael Jordan and his impressive career might actually help you become a more successful options trader. I know what you're thinking already. Kirk, how on earth does basketball relate to trading options? You see on the outside they don't but once you dig down a little deeper you'll find that the best basketball p...

You've got a stock position that you want to protect (or shield) from any impending market sell-off or crash. But buying protection or insurance typically costs money right? And in nearly all cases you've been told to buy put options that are far OTM. The only problem is that these options tend to expire worthless (which is why we sell them here at Option Alpha) and if you have to purcha...

It's no secret that the long-term average investor returns are pretty low. In most cases, the little guy rarely beats the market and for good reason. Frankly we are horrible stock pickers though we consistently try to find hidden value in playing directionally. Long-term this always underperforms an efficient market and the market standard portfolio (i.e. the S&P 500 Index). So what do we...

Finding great option trades can be tough sometimes, and I get that. That's why in today's podcast I'll show you 10 detailed trades all under $100 of risk each that you can make right now. Plus, we mixed it up with a little bit of everything; bullish & bearish strategies, high & low volatility trades, stocks & ETFs, etc. And for less than $1,000 of overall risk you could...

In the past couple years inverse and leveraged ETFs have been some of the most highly traded securities because of their seemingly "cool" concept for speculation. I mean where else can you get such high exposure to financials or gold than with a 3X bull/bear ETF? In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast I'll going to dig deep into how these products are both structured and priced...

You’ve often heard us talk about the important of trading liquid options until you are blue in the face right? In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast we’ll put a real dollar figure to this concept and show just how much “slippage” is costing you trading options that are illiquid. Specifically markets that show a bid/ask spread of just $0.20 could end up costing you more than $3,840 each year...

 In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast I have the great pleasure of interviewing long-time trader and industry veteran John Carter - founder of SimplerOptions.com .  One of the many benefits of doing this podcast has been the opportunity to meet and connect with other traders with whom I admire and have followed for years. John has been on my short list of those to contact for this podcast (...

In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast I'm going to actually take a look at unique investment outside the stock market that is comparable to how we should be trading options. My hope is that you'll clearly see how being successful with Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending is extremely similar to the requirements for long-term options trading success. In fact I'd even go as far to say tha...

Investing money can be scary (no doubt). . . In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast I want to help you overcome the 3 biggest fears that people have when they start trading options. You see, as kids we were scared of all kinds of things; monsters, our siblings, "Dad" etc.  As adults now we still get scared and when we combine the "unknown" with our hard earned money it bec...

In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast we talk with long-time trader Kim Klaiman from SteadyOptions.com. As you'll hear in this interview, Kim's goal is to trade trade variety of non-directional trades with low correlations. One topic that we dive into a little deeper is the strategy of buying straddles pre-earnings to profit from the rise in implied volatility. And while I personal...