Retail option traders, mostly new traders are told to buy options because the risk is limited.

You cannot lose more than what you paid for the premium - this is the line often told to a new trader

In this episode I will share some scenarios in which a trader can lose a lot more money when buying a put option or a call option

I will also discuss how to avoid this scenario

Hope you'll enjoy this episode. 

In this episode I will review the performance in 2020.

Will start with reviewing the metrics : 

- Return on Capital

- Buying Power Used

- Days in Trade

- Win Rate

- Symbols traded

- Option Strategies

In the end I will also provide qualitative summary of what worked for me in 2020 and the gaps that I need to work on in 2021

Hope you'll enjoy listening to this

With holiday season kicking off with Thanksgiving Week, today's episode is a vacation checklist for options traders. 

This is something that you can use to button up your portfolio before going off the grid to enjoy time with friends and families. This will also make sure you don’t get any surprises when you turn your computer back on after a few days of market activity.

Many new option traders ask me the importance of the Put / Call ratio and how can they use it in making decisions on an option trade. I will address this question in this episode.

Then I will discuss the option trades from previous episode and a new trade from this week.

In this episode I will dig into Market Maker Move (MMM), the number that you sometimes see it on the Thinkorswim platform and then you don't see it. If you wondered what that piece of information is and how you can use it for trading, this episode will clarify it all

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Every week I get to interact with lot of retail investors through webinar. When I enquire about their journey in options, I get to hear multiple reasons of why they have not yet started in options. In this episode I will talk through the top 3 reasons and explain why those reasons are just excuses. 

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This is a well guarded secret in brokerage industry. I have not seen many financial publications talking about it. 

This secret has direct positive impact on our bottom line as retail option traders.

Listen to this episode to know what it is and how can you benefit from it.

Many a times we come across a trade that looks to be "zero risk" on paper. Recently a trade in Nikola motors (NKLA) was talk of the town for this reason. The trade seemed to be zero-risk. I will share the story of how that trade turned to be nightmare for some traders and what can we learn from this

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