Proper Position-Size in Options Trading It doesn’t matter if you are just starting or have an advanced grasp of all things options, if you don’t think of yourself as a risk manager first, you will fail, it’s just a matter of time. Proper risk management is what separates those that succeed from those that continually… Read more »
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The Beauty of Trading with High-Probability Credit Spreads
The Statistical Truth I hate to say this about some of my fellow options traders, but I can’t tell you how much I abhor those in the industry that absolutely ruin the true benefits of options for the self-directed investor. Claims of outlandish 300%, 400%, 1,200% in just a few days, without even a small… Read more »
The Best ETFs for Options Trading
The key to finding the best ETFs for options trading centers solely around liquidity. In fact, the foundation for all of your options trading endeavors, regardless of the options strategy, starts with your watchlist of highly liquid options, both stocks and ETFs. We only want to use the most efficient products the market has to… Read more »
The One Statistical Law All Successful Options Traders Follow
The foundation of all quantitative or statistically-based options traders rests on one statistical law – The Law of Large Numbers. The Law of Large Numbers states that as you increase your sample size, in our case number of trades, our expected value or probability of success will come to fruition. This is because the Central… Read more »