October 23, 2024
Option prices are based on volatility. Options were invented as ways to trade volatility. If you want to run a…
September 26, 2024
A question I get asked all the time is: why do you trade options and not forex, stocks, or futures?…
September 26, 2024
There are some basic statistical concepts that you need to be familiar with in order to be a good option…
September 25, 2024
One of the most frequently asked questions about iron butterflys and iron condors is: “Where should I place the wings?”…
September 25, 2024
This blog is going to teach you how to pick the right expiration to trade for your option selling trades….
September 25, 2024
Most of the time when we are selling options we are trading the difference between implied and realized volatility. This…
September 25, 2024
A key characteristic of option contracts is the number of days until the contract expires, which is often referred to…
September 25, 2024
One of my favorite option selling topics is relative value trading. It’s based on finding price discrepancies between similar assets…
September 25, 2024
In this article you are going to learn about the term structure of an option chain, what it tells us…
September 25, 2024
One of the things that makes options such an attractive asset to trade is that there are so many dimensions…
September 24, 2024
So you understand a bit about how options work. You get the necessary approvals from your brokerage. You open the…
September 24, 2024
Every single ticker experiences volatility. And if you want to be a profitable option seller, it’s crucial to understand the…
September 24, 2024
Every trader has one question that they wanted answered when they find an option trade. “Has doing this made money…
November 2, 2023
One of the big reasons traders use Predicting Alpha is to find data-driven trades (shocker, I know). Today we made…
October 31, 2023
Our team realized something recently that changed the way we thought about option trading. Remember the process we taught in…
October 17, 2023
Introduction: Within the PA Terminal you are able to filter the market using over 150 metrics. Each metric is option…
July 15, 2023
Option trading is all about finding cheap volatility to buy, and expensive volatility to sell To make this easier for…
July 15, 2023
During my daily options scan, I found a trade that should return 2% on your margin this month. Here is…
May 16, 2023
This trade could return 3.5% on margin over 35 days. Here is my analysis. What is SLG? According to Yahoo…
May 12, 2023
I found a trade that should earn a 2% return on margin in 37 days. I noticed this opportunity during…
May 10, 2023
The core business of almost every trading operation should be based on risk premia. Right now, GLD makes for a…
May 9, 2023
I found a trade that should earn a 1.7% return on margin in 11 days. I first noticed this ETF…
May 8, 2023
Everyone knows that after an earnings announcement, IV Crush demolishes the prices of options. However, for EXPE and ETSY, prices…
May 5, 2023
If you have read our previous articles about what makes trading profitable and how volatility works, you are pretty much…
September 23, 2024
If you read our article about expected value and what separates the top 1% of traders from everyone else, you…
September 21, 2024
The entire game of trading options is about pricing the variance risk premium that is embedded into the option price….
September 15, 2024
Finding a good trading opportunity requires two things. The first is that there needs to be a pricing discrepancy. A…
September 3, 2024
We all know that 90% of traders lose money, but when it comes to options, the statistic is even more…
August 28, 2024
Compared to a couple years ago, the VIX is pretty low. We are used to seeing VIX at 25 or…
August 26, 2024
