Every week, options traders like you are sending in questions like one of these: Which options model should I use? Which modeling software is more accurate? Why are my Deltas different than yours? To best answer that question, we should leave the theoretical world and move into the real world… Several of the top performing options traders on our proprietary … Read More
How Equity Traders Can Use Options to Improve Their Results
In this video, Andrew Falde discusses how equity traders can use options to help maximize returns when there are limited trading opportunities.
“Just Tell Me What to Do”
Developing traders are sometimes humble (or desperate) enough to make a request for help that sounds something like “just show me”, “give me a step by step”, “what’s an if-then that I can use”, etc. The response we provide is usually disappointing. The developing trader wants the answer to begin with “whenever you see this happen, do this…”. However, our … Read More
Trade Options Like an Atom Bomb is About to Go Off in Times Square
In this video Seth Freudberg discusses why it’s so important to have a contingency plan for your trading. Traders never know when something unexpected will happen. Professional Traders always have a contingency plan for unexpected market events. This video reviews some of the viable contingency plans that are used by professional options traders.
Great Options Traders Learn From Each Other
In this video, Seth Freudberg talks about how options traders learn from each other. Communication is one of SMB’s Fundamental Principles–the critical nature of traders sharing information with each other for mutual growth. One of our traders came up with a unique concept to salvage a trade this week and shared that. Another trader on our desk adopted that concept … Read More
Milking an Options Trade
In this video, Seth Freudberg talks about the techniques behind milking a trade. Sometimes it’s obvious that an options trade has potential for greater than it’s normal profit target. This video provides a technique for taking advantage of that trading situation. A conservative two standard deviation move metric is used to make decisions within this technique. *no relevant positions
Stop Calling it Options Income Trading
In this video Seth Freudberg discusses why he has a problem with the term options income trading. Find out why!
Join SMB’s Options Desk
In our SMBU Daily Video Seth discusses the importance of finding a group of traders to trade with. Many options traders are isolated from other options traders because of their geography This isolation causes traders not to get exposed to new ideas to enhance his or her skills as options traders Joining an options trading community provides a solution to … Read More