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The Ultimate Guide to Selling Options in 2025: Everything You Need to Trade Like a Pro

Sean Ryan

May 5, 2025

Sean Ryan

May 5, 2025

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6 min read
Trading Fundamentals

How to Roll Weekly Options Like a Pro

In this article I am going to teach you how to effectively roll into new positions when selling weekly option…

Sean Ryan

November 22, 2024

Sean Ryan

November 22, 2024

9 min read
All Posts, Trade Case Studies

$224,914.81 Profit Across 1,381 Trades: A Live Breakdown of Earnings Strategy Returns

We are going to analyze two years of running the earnings strategy live. This journal was provided to us by…

Sean Ryan

October 23, 2024

Sean Ryan

October 23, 2024

5 min read
All Posts, Option Fundamentals

What is Volatility In Options and Why Is It Important For Option Sellers?

Option prices are based on volatility. Options were invented as ways to trade volatility. If you want to run a…

Sean Ryan

September 26, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 26, 2024

3 min read
All Posts, Trading Fundamentals

Is Selling Options Profitable? The Answer is Yes and Here is Why

A question I get asked all the time is: why do you trade options and not forex, stocks, or futures?…

Sean Ryan

September 26, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 26, 2024

3 min read
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Statistics For Option Selling: Essential Concepts You Need To Know

There are some basic statistical concepts that you need to be familiar with in order to be a good option…

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

4 min read
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Where to Place Option Wings When Selling Iron Butterflys and Iron Condors

One of the most frequently asked questions about iron butterflys and iron condors is: “Where should I place the wings?”…

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

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Option Fundamentals
4 min read
All Posts, Option Fundamentals

Options Expiration Date: The Importance of Days to Expiration in Options Trading

A key characteristic of option contracts is the number of days until the contract expires, which is often referred to…

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

4 min read
All Posts, Option Fundamentals

Introduction to Relative Value Trading: A Profitable Way To Sell Options

One of my favorite option selling topics is relative value trading. It’s based on finding price discrepancies between similar assets…

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

7 min read
All Posts, Option Fundamentals

How The Term Structure Impacts Option Selling Strategies: A Comprehensive Guide For Option Sellers

In this article you are going to learn about the term structure of an option chain, what it tells us…

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 25, 2024

9 min read
All Posts, Option Fundamentals

Understanding Option Greeks – The Key to Professional Option Selling

One of the things that makes options such an attractive asset to trade is that there are so many dimensions…

Sean Ryan

September 24, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 24, 2024

6 min read
All Posts, Option Fundamentals

How to Read an Options Chain: Key Terms You Need to Know

So you understand a bit about how options work. You get the necessary approvals from your brokerage. You open the…

Sean Ryan

September 24, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 24, 2024

5 min read
All Posts, Option Fundamentals

The 3 Types Of Volatility That Impact Option Prices – Market, Event and Non-Event Volatility

Every single ticker experiences volatility. And if you want to be a profitable option seller, it’s crucial to understand the…

Sean Ryan

September 24, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 24, 2024

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Platform Help Articles
5 min read
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Backtest Option Selling Strategies For Any Ticker Instantly With The Predicting Alpha Terminal

Every trader has one question that they wanted answered when they find an option trade. “Has doing this made money…

Sean Ryan

November 2, 2023

Sean Ryan

November 2, 2023

10 min read
All Posts, Platform Help Articles

Trade Nine Out-Of-The-Box Option Premium Strategies Using The Predicting Alpha Terminal

One of the big reasons traders use Predicting Alpha is to find data-driven trades (shocker, I know). Today we made…

Sean Ryan

October 31, 2023

Sean Ryan

October 31, 2023

3 min read
All Posts, Platform Help Articles

Option Premium Reports And New Strategy Scanners Are Now LIVE – Predicting Alpha Update October 2023

Our team realized something recently that changed the way we thought about option trading. Remember the process we taught in…

Sean Ryan

October 17, 2023

Sean Ryan

October 17, 2023

9 min read
Platform Help Articles

How To Find Profitable Option Trades By Building Custom Volatility Scanners

Introduction: Within the PA Terminal you are able to filter the market using over 150 metrics. Each metric is option…

Sean Ryan

July 15, 2023

Sean Ryan

July 15, 2023

6 min read
Platform Help Articles, Trading Fundamentals

Five Pre Built Option Strategy Scanners That Profit From Volatility Inefficiencies

Option trading is all about finding cheap volatility to buy, and expensive volatility to sell To make this easier for…

Sean Ryan

July 15, 2023

Sean Ryan

July 15, 2023

Trade Case Studies
5 min read
Trade Case Studies

EWT Trade Analysis: Foreign VRP

During my daily options scan, I found a trade that should return 2% on your margin this month. Here is…

Sean Ryan

May 16, 2023

Micah Ng

May 16, 2023

5 min read
Trade Case Studies

SLG Trading Case Study: Empty Office Buildings?

This trade could return 3.5% on margin over 35 days. Here is my analysis. What is SLG? According to Yahoo…

Sean Ryan

May 12, 2023

Micah Ng

May 12, 2023

4 min read
Trade Case Studies

COP Trade Analysis: Temporarily Expensive Options

I found a trade that should earn a 2% return on margin in 37 days. I noticed this opportunity during…

Sean Ryan

May 10, 2023

Micah Ng

May 10, 2023

4 min read
Trade Case Studies

GLD Trade Analysis: Expensive Risk Premiums

The core business of almost every trading operation should be based on risk premia. Right now, GLD makes for a…

Sean Ryan

May 9, 2023

Micah Ng

May 9, 2023

5 min read
Trade Case Studies

Expensive KWEB Options: Trading Case Study

I found a trade that should earn a 1.7% return on margin in 11 days. I first noticed this ETF…

Sean Ryan

May 8, 2023

Micah Ng

May 8, 2023

3 min read
Trade Case Studies

Post Earnings Trade Analysis: EXPE + ETSY

Everyone knows that after an earnings announcement, IV Crush demolishes the prices of options. However, for EXPE and ETSY, prices…

Sean Ryan

May 5, 2023

Micah Ng

May 5, 2023

Trading Fundamentals
5 min read
All Posts, Trading Fundamentals

Mastering Option Selling Strategy Development: Creating A Profitable System

If you have read our previous articles about what makes trading profitable and how volatility works, you are pretty much…

Sean Ryan

September 23, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 23, 2024

4 min read
All Posts, Trading Fundamentals

The Power of Data Driven Trading: How Profitable Option Traders Succeed

If you read our article about expected value and what separates the top 1% of traders from everyone else, you…

Sean Ryan

September 21, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 21, 2024

7 min read
All Posts, Trading Fundamentals

Two Ways to Price Option Premiums: A Masterclass In Option Selling Strategy

The entire game of trading options is about pricing the variance risk premium that is embedded into the option price….

Sean Ryan

September 15, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 15, 2024

4 min read
All Posts, Trading Fundamentals

The Importance of Trading Research: Finding Tradable Information

Finding a good trading opportunity requires two things. The first is that there needs to be a pricing discrepancy. A…

Sean Ryan

September 3, 2024

Sean Ryan

September 3, 2024

4 min read
All Posts, Trading Fundamentals

How to Think Like a Professional Option Trader: The Secrets of the 1%

We all know that 90% of traders lose money, but when it comes to options, the statistic is even more…

Sean Ryan

August 28, 2024

Sean Ryan

August 28, 2024

6 min read
All Posts, Trading Fundamentals

How to Sell Options Profitably When IV Rank is Low

Compared to a couple years ago, the VIX is pretty low. We are used to seeing VIX at 25 or…

Sean Ryan

August 26, 2024

Sean Ryan

August 26, 2024

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