There is no such thing as the perfect strategy or situation or relationship. No matter how great it seems in the beginning, there are things that you learn that can take the luster off that new relationship, that perfect job, that powerhouse trading strategy. That is what we will examine in this episode of the Zero Days to Expiration podcast.

It's our one year anniversary and boy has the service grown, both in number and in what we have learned by trading the 0-DTE with asymmetrical strategies. Asymmetry has loads of benefits besides a long term mathematical positive outcome. This podcast reviews all the positives and negatives of the journey...wait, I must admit, that even the negatives were positives, because they presented invaluable learning experiences.

When you trade with asymmetric risk to reward, in other words when the risk is very small compared to the potential reward, you are trading with a positive outcome. So, even when the odds are against you, you can expect an overall positive outcome. This is one of our primary advantages, where most traders simply have no idea.

There has never been a trading strategy with such low anxiety conditions. All due to the amazing risk to reward trades we enter into. And you can get in and get out very quickly with decent profits, or you could decide to hang around until the end of the day for the big kahuna return. Is it worth it?

When a trader creates an options strategy or any kind of setup, they are thinking what is their ultimate risk to reward, what is the worst case versus the best case. But the reality is that 95% of trades end up somewhere on that spectrum. Isn't that where we should be putting all our efforts?

As a day trader you have lots of options, pun intended. But most of you choose to trade things like forex or futures or even penny stocks. None of them have inherent edges built into them, neither do they have premium and volatility as drivers to leverage price. Options have that, and trading the 0-DTE increases that leverage by orders of magnitude, making it the most effective way to day trade.

Liquidity is the biggest problem these days for the options trader. You enter a trade thinking you have a shot at collecting some rich premium, and then the trade dries up, everyone goes home and takes their ball with them. Using Max Pain we can identify these traps and find places where we can avoid getting skunked.