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The Option Alpha Podcast

140: Why Some Option Trades "Explode" In Your Face & What To Do About It

Aug 20, 2018
29:12

Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show140

Have you ever gotten the feeling that some of your trades just end up exploding in your face and turn into "massive" losing positions? They just never seem to go the way you thought it would and always demand or steal your attention right? Well, there's likely a couple reasons why this happens and it gets back down to some of the most basic principles of options trading. In today's podcast, I'll walk through the psychology behind many of these "bad trades" and help offer a strategy to help manage them.

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