How can stock investors use options? You've come to the right place. You can find more in The Options Playbook, which is always available on OptionsPlaybook.com, in on the Amazon Kindle edition.

Specifically:

• A review of the AAPL collar from two weeks ago
• What about capital gains?
• Remember we had a small credit
• Where are we now?
• What about additional risk?
• What's an alternative? Using an example with FB
• Using a FB option as a surrogate for stock
• Setting up the trade
• Selecting expiration and strike
• Remember, one option for every 100 shares of stock

Do you have a question that you want answered on a future episode? Send them to Brian at [email protected], or to the Options Insider at [email protected].

Options news you can use for Thursday, November 29.

Options news you can use for Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Options news you can use for Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Trading Block: Earnings!

• Tuesday – Salesforce
• Wednesday – box
• Thursday - TD, GameStop, HP
• Clothing Retailers: Burlington, Chico's, J Jill, Guess, Express, Abercrombie & Fitch

Also, Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to its lowest level since October 2017 on Monday, as losses are seen across the broader crypto market.

Odd Block: Tesla put summary, opening call sale in (ADI), opening put love in (CRC), and Jan call sale in (PAA)

Strategy Block: Tosaw discusses what a risk reversal is and how to use it.

Mail Block: listener questions and comments

• Question from Khabib - What do you think is the best use for unusual activity? Is it the best for trading or for an indicator?

Around the Block/This Week in the Markets

• Nov 27: Consumer Confidence
• Nov 28: GDP

Options news you can use for Monday, November 26, 2018

In this episode, Mark is joined by Eric Metz, CIO of SpiderRock Advisors. They discuss:

• What is SpiderRock?
• What types of overlays do they trade?
• Automating SMAs for advisors
• How do they prefer to pay for puts?
• Have the recent volatility levels impacted the AUM?
• What is the near-term volatility outlook?
• What do customers want these days?
• What dis the adoption rate of options for advisors?
• And more....

Volatility Review: A look back at the week from a volatility perspective.

Black Monday. Happy 30th Birthday to Volatility Skew!

The numbers:

• VIX - 93.33
• CBOE Skew Index - 146
• VXN - 14.64

Russell's Weekly Rundown:

• VIX ADV - 876k
• VIX call/put - 4.1
• VXX - 34.39
• XIV - 105.87

Volatility Voicemail: Options question of the week

Earnings Season is here! Which name do you plan to trade most actively this cycle?

• 27% - Tesla - $TSLA
• 34% - Amazon - $AMZN
• 23% - Apple - $AAPL
• 16% - Alphabet - $GOOGL

Listener questions and comments:

Comment form MoneyEngine X3.5 - Buying CVS calls.

• Crystal Ball: Wild and reckless prognostication

Last week:

• Mark L. - 9.55
• Mark S. - 10.25
• Ghost of Russell - 28
• Kevin - 10

This week:

• Mark L. - 9.65
• Mark S. - 10.16
• Russell - 9.87

In this episode, Mark is joined by Bernie Schwartz, the Trading Technologies Options Product Manager.

They discuss:

• Options functionality at TT
• TT's enhanced strategy creation capabilities
• How easy is it to execute delta-neutral trade?
• What's TT's secret sauce?
• The TradeStation partnership
• Any other partnerships?
• Cryptocurrency options
• New listings
• Crypto selloff and impact on interest
• And more...

In this episode, Mark is joined by Mark Woolfenden, Managing Director at Euromoney Tradedata.

They discuss:

• What is Euromoney Tradedata?
• What is MIFID 2?
• Doing the heavy lifting with regulators
• Dealing with the evolution of Dodd-Frank
• What about Brexit?
• What else is happening at Euromoney Tradedata?
• Has an API offering opened more doors?
• And more