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  • Delta Neutral Trading: Iron Condors

    In this post, I gave a quick introduction to delta, one of the option greeks.  This is a measure of how an option or spread will respond to a price move in the underlying.  The put credit spread structure we used in our first strategy is always +delta. That is, it’s partly a short option…

  • Excel and Thinkorswim

    I made a quick video showing how you can use MS Excel on Windows to pull live data from Thinkorswim. This can be handy to make your own tools to speed up and simplify your option trading. Here is the video on YouTube, followed by a copy of my finished spreadsheet for reference. As mentioned,…

  • Options Delta – A Brief Introduction

    First, as always, I am not a financial advisor. I am just sharing my journey trading options. I hope you find it helpful. Always consult with a financial advisor about your situation and goals before adding any trading strategy to your personal plan. I’m assuming you are familiar with put credit spreads, or you can…

  • Beginner Options Strategy (Part 3)

    \Welcome to Part 3, where we’ll talk about broader guidelines and suggestions for tweaking the strategy to your needs.  Just to recap – in part 1 I gave a quick intro to the put credit spread structure.  Then in part 2 I shared a rules based approach to entering weekly credit spreads on SPY.  In…

  • Beginner Options Strategy (Part 2)

    Hey friends, welcome to part 2 of my simple strategy.  If you are new to options selling or you are not familiar with put credit spreads be sure to read my part 1 or watch the video for a basic introduction to them.  With that, let’s look at the strategy. But before I begin, as…

  • Beginner Options Strategy (Part 1)

    Hi friends.  Sorry I haven’t posted, I’ve been very busy adjusting to nomad life but I am really back now. I hope you are having a great day, I am in amazing Boracay in the Philippines and it is… raining.  But a rainy day in Boracay is still a great day. I thought I would…

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