Oct

The Only Way To Learn How To Trade Options

The Only Way To Learn To Trade Options There are so many nuances to trade options that it’s really best to learn from others who trade. Sure, you can pick up a few pointers here and there from Youtube or from the popular printed books, but will you really learn how to trade that way? […]

Oct

Options Backtesting via SJ Troo™

Now You Can Back-test Options Earnings Plays Instantly Most option traders know what it means to manually back-test theories as well as adjustment ideas. We’ve all worked in back-testing software that would absorb days and nights to pull in just a few pieces of important data. We’d get tired of the tediousness of it all […]

Oct

The SJ Options Trading System

Recent Discoveries : Super Low-Risk Insurance At SJ Options we’ve developed a new options trading system which is frankly, in just a couple of words “simply amazing!” What we’ve done is discovered a way you can trade with super low-risk insurance. In a normal situation, insurance strategies lose money each month and eat up your […]

Oct

Options Mentoring

Options Mentoring I had an interesting conversation with an option trader today who is still searching for the secret to making consistent returns with option trading. He said many things that I absolutely agreed with. Iron Condors Are Very Directional One thing that got my attention was when he said “Non-directional option trading doesn’t mean […]

Oct

Broken Wing Butterflies – Recent Regulation Change

Recent Regulation Changes with Broken Wing Butterflies Broken Wing Butterflies have been around for quite some time but it’s never gained much popularity. It’s not such an abstract concept really. It’s simply a butterfly spread constructed of two verticals which are different widths. You can also construct a very similar trade by using the same […]

Oct

Worried How Your Credit Spread Will Fare if the Market Reverses?

Credit spreads have a high mathematical likelihood of achieving profitability; however… So why don’t I consider them one of my favorite types of trades? Because they also have a high risk of loss, and that means stress. Credit spreads are highly directional and that by itself implants the kind of risk into the trade that […]

Oct

The True Risk with Popular Option Strategies

Popular Option Strategies The biggest difference in trading low-risk option strategies compared to the popular income strategies is that the time to recover from a debacle is very different. For example, over the recent “computer glitch,” those who were trading iron condors as income spreads lost about 50 to 70% over that two-week period. If […]

Oct

The Unbalanced Condor

Bringing the Unbalanced Condor to the Forefront Today I want to talk about a strategy that not many option traders know about which is called an Unbalanced Condor. This strategy has been around for a while I am sure, but for some reason, it’s not very popular. Personally, I have been studying options for over […]

Oct

High Probability Credit Spreads – Is it a Mirage?

A Credit Spread: Is The Popular Option Trade Really a Mirage? The Truth About High Probability Credit Spreads with Options OTM Credit spreads are one of the most popular instruments used in Option Trading. The question is why. The answer is simple. The OTM credit spread is the easiest spread to understand for beginning option […]

Oct

Commodities vs Financials

San Jose Options, Inc. is one of the leading innovators in the options teaching industry. Lately, we have been doing case studies on Commodity trades and the Financials to understand the similarities and differences between the different products when used with option spreads. The results of the studies over the market crash of 2011 were been quite […]

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