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Unleashing the Long-Term Key to Thriving as an Options Income Trader
Having run our options trading desk at SMB for over two years now and having traded options income strategies as a retail options trader for close to ten years I can tell you this… The data is in and the record is clear: Income traders who control the size of their losing trades are the long term winners. That’s … Read More
Who’s Running The Ship?
When you think of a large cruise ship and the way that it’s run. Who runs the ship, the captain or the crew? If you’re like most people you would say the captain….. and you’d be wrong. As you think about all the things that need to be done on the ship, keeping the engines running, taking care of all … Read More
Unleashing the Power of an Options Trading Plan: Beyond Strategy
One common reason that options traders can’t find consistency is because they lack of a trading plan. You may be able to track your performance, but without an options trading plan it will be very difficult to repeat your success and minimize risk. A comprehensive options trading plan outlines how you will trade (your method), how much money you will … Read More
Mastering the Options Trading Golden Compass: A Guide to Reviewing Your Trades
One of the hardest things to do while attempting to become a profitable options trader is to find a strategy that you are comfortable with and then sticking with it long enough to give you a chance to play out over many trades. Many of us believe that we can purchase an options trading course or read a book and … Read More
Butterfly Options Strategy: Enhancing Risk-Reward Ratio
In this article we are going to discuss another options trading “income” strategy called the Butterfly. There are actually two strategies which fall into this category the “Butterfly” and the “Iron Butterfly”. The Butterfly is created using either all call options or all put options where you have a debit and credit spread joined At-the-Money by the short strike price … Read More
Maximize Your Income with the Calendar Spread: An Options Trading Strategy
We have discussed the definition of two options trading income strategies before: the short vertical spread and the iron condor. In this article we would like to introduce you to another options strategy called the “calendar spread” which is also known as the “time spread”. Like the short vertical spread, when employing the calendar spread strategy, we are selling one … Read More
Spread Trading: Three Timeless Lessons You Need to Know (Including When to Close a Debit Spread)
In this second article about debit and credit spreads we will discuss when you might want to use a debit spread over a credit spread or vice versa. To review, we previously discussed the fact that there really isn’t a meaningful economic difference between a credit and debit spread on different sides at the same strikes. It just comes down … Read More