The Option Genius Podcast: Options Trading For Income and Growth

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book! Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.   -- Life insurance. Its something we all should have. And there are different types. 2 main groups… Term where you pay an amount very month and for a certain amount of time, if you die the insurer will pay off your family. So here you are basically betting against the insurance company that you are going to die. Wait… you pay money to create a contract…the contract has an expiration date…and if you don’t die before the deadline…the contract expires and the insurer keeps all the money….what does that sound like? That is exactly like selling an option. Except the insurance company is the option seller and you are the buyer. Hmmm  but I digress. And then there is cash value insurance. Whole, variable, universal. Etc. So back in 2005 things were looking up for me. Just got married, my first real job, wife was a nurse, and so I was looking for an investment…(wasn’t trading at that time) I stumbled upon life insurance and dug deep reading multiple volumes on the topic. And found that it has some awesome benefits. The money in the account grows tax free. You can withdraw the money tax free (as a loan) Creditors /lawsuits cannot touch it (OJ Simpson) The death benefit when you die is tax free Download the podcast for more details....   Links: OptionGenius.com/Map -- LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.  

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book! Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- Hey there, Genius Nation. I want to ask you a question. What are some of the best times of your life? Can you think of any? I guess it really depends on how old you are, right? If you're younger, maybe the best time that you can remember was when you got your driver's license and you went out for your first drive, right? Or maybe when you graduated high school, maybe when you graduated college. If you're a little bit older, you probably remember the best day of your life was probably when you got married or you had a kid. If you're a little bit older, maybe the day that you actually retired or started your own business or something like that. How did that make you feel? We have those memories, we had these awesome experiences. Why are they awesome? Because the feelings that we had, when that happened, when that occurred and that's what we remember, that's the power of the feeling. How amazing was that feeling? Pretty good right? Pretty high, it's like you were on drugs right? I remember when I got married, that's the happiest day I've ever had. I was just super high. The world could have been crashing down burning, but I was so happy, nothing would bother me. Nothing could have touched me. I mean literally you're high on drugs kind of thing. Have you ever felt that way about money before? Because I know with money, if you don't have it, it's stressful. If you have it, it can be stressful, you know? The more you have, the more security you got to take, and the more you got to worry about investments and you worry about this and keeping it and getting not ripped off and it can be a very stressful thing, but have you ever had an amazing, awesome, awesome, awesome feeling about money? Most people don't. That's what this episode is about, because I want to tell you about the most amazing feeling that you can have when it comes to money. For that, I need to tell you a story... -- LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.  

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book! Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- Okay so in this episode, I'm going to be doing things a little bit different because this is going to be a video and an audio podcast because I do have some graphics to share. Now, if you are listening to the audio and you want to watch the video, you can do that at www.optiongenius.com/continuum. So I want to start with a couple of questions. Number one, how long have you been trading options? And number two, in one word, how would you describe your proficiency of trading options. So in other words, what level trader are you? Kind of gets confusing, right? Sometimes. Because you don't know exactly. I ask this because it's super important to know where you are before you can make any progress. You have to know where you are so you can make the necessary correct improvements and even know what needs to be improved in the first place. Because in most areas of life, this is what's called a benchmark, right? So, if you know where you are now and you know they'll you want to get to, then it becomes pretty easy to get there. You can make a plan and you can just follow step by step by step and get there. No big deal. You just work on the skills that you need at the next level. But in trading, nobody ever talks about this, you know? There's no set criteria, there's no levels, there's no advancement. You know, even in college, you go to college you say, "Oh yeah, you're in college. Oh yeah, what year are you?" "Oh I'm a freshman, I'm a junior, I'm a senior." You know where you are, you know what you have to do to get to the next level and you know how many levels there are so, you know when you're gonna finish. In trading, we don't have this so, you hear terms like, "Oh, I'm new to options." Okay, what does that mean exactly, you know? Did you just start trading yesterday? Have you been trading for three months but you're not very good, or you're not confident in it? Who knows? Or, "Hey, I'm an advanced trader." What does that mean? Are you making money? Do you know 15 different strategies and 12 different adjustments for each one? Does that make you an advanced trader, you know? Or maybe you've just been doing it and losing money for the last 20 years trading options. Maybe that makes you an advanced trader. Or maybe you've been to 15 different seminars and you know all the lingo but you've never done trade in your life. Does that make you an advanced trader? Nobody knows, right? Because at Option Genius, we get emails about this all the time. We get people who want to know what course or membership that they should join and some of them, not all of them, but some of them try to make it easy on us by giving us a little background on themselves. But it's almost never enough. No we are not licensed financial people so we cannot give personal advice, right? But if a product is wrong, one of our products is wrong for you, we'll tell you, "Hey, you know, this is not for you based on what you told us." The problem is that we don't know these people well enough and we've never had a way to characterize them. For example, an email might come to us, might be something like this, says, "Hi, I've been trading options for three years and I really like your weekly trading system site." For example. "I'm retired and I have $20,000 to work with. Would this be the best product for me?" And to be honest, really, I have no idea. The email says he's been trading for three years but trading what? What strategy? Was he profitable? Was he not? Does he really understand it or not? Why does he want to jump into weekly options? Has he been doing monthly options, he been doing leaps? I don't know. You know? I mean we can go back and forth, emailing back and forth just to try to figure it out. So, I think you can see my conundrum, okay? No I mean, is someone who is only a covered call trader, is he a basic options trader? And someone who knows, for example, ratio spreads, are they an advanced trader? Well what if the covered call guy makes a lot more money than the ratio trader? Now who's the more advanced trader, you know? It's kind of confusing. So, I decided to sit down and end all this confusion. So I have come up with what I call the, "Option Continuum," basically, it's a scale, which you can easily tell what level you are at in your trading. And once you know your level, you can decide what level you want to move to and then you start working on those specific skills to improve. Now, everybody does not need to know every strategy to do well, okay? That's up to you. You could get to the top of the continuum, the end of the continuum and only know one strategy and just one way to trading. It is possible. Or you could say, "You know, I need to know five different strategies in case one doesn't work or the market changes or whatnot and I need to know five strategies and be good at them in order for me to get to the top." That's fine, you know? But I don't think that you need to know every single strategy. Nor do you need to understand say 20 different technical indicators, you don't. So the continuum will help you in many ways including, this is a big one, not jumping at the next shiny object that comes your way. And I think you know what you're talking about because I know how it is, I get them too. The daily emails touting the newest, the coolest, the most profitable trading strategy that's gonna make me millions, right? I get pitched ten of those a day if not more. But once you know what level you are at, you will be able to determine what you need next and eliminate all the other noise so that you stop jumping from one course to the next, from one guru to the next. Because that ride never stops, it's like a merry-go-round. Once you get on the merry-go-round, they keep pitching you more stuff and more stuff and more stuff. And if you're done with one guru's stuff, that guru will pitch you stuff from someone else and it just continues in a circle, on and on and on, you never get off that ride. -- LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.  

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book! Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- How do we overcome our fears of making a decision and sticking with it and having faith in it and certainty. The truth is whenever you look at the human dynamic of decision making we're going to base our decision on getting our needs met. Every single one of us, if we look at what you're choosing to wearing today, where you live, what career you have. How you're in relationship with certain people and not in relationship with other people at this point in your life. What grocery store you shop at. What foods you eat. What TV shows you watch, all of them are being decided based on our human needs matrix. I'm gonna quickly give you the six human needs and from that I wanna tell you the one that, what you know and maybe you remember as the five C's and how those lay on top. So the six human needs, certainty, uncertainty, significance, love and connection, growth, and contribution. Now, those six human needs are dictating every single one of our decisions. For somebody who's fearing a decision what I know for certain is that they are stuck in certainty. I want to know that whenever I'm going to invest this time, this money, this attention towards something, that I'm gonna get a payback. And so, if we've got an expectation that's already creating a stuck vibration inside of our ability to make a decision because we're basing what we're gonna do now on something that hasn't even happened yet and we're wanting it to work out. I can completely understand whenever we want to invest our money, we want to have some understanding of a measurement that we're not gonna make poor decisions, bad decisions. We're gonna do it whenever we think our money's gonna be invested wisely and make more money. I know. I do it too. However, we can't predict the future, especially in America. So what do we do? We base things on as much information as we can possible predict right now, but not too much. If we go on too much, it's gonna create instability and panic, anxiety inside of us. So, take the two or three markers that you trust. Two or three markers that you're looking at and say I can see that. That's going to work and as along as I have this level of certainty I can make this amount of decision and move forward. Measure often, especially when it comes to money in the marketplace. You do this with your students and with the people that follow your program. Measure often. We've gotta measure. Don't just invest and then hope. I said don't be high on hopium. If somebody's high on hopium they're gonna set themselves up for failure. We've gotta participate. We've gotta show up. We've gotta do what we're being taught and apply those things because if we don't at the end of the day we're gonna regret. We're gonna, I know I should have done that. I was supposed to do that. Damn it I didn't do that. So if we have regret, remorse, fear, depression anything like that, it's just gonna compound on top of each other. Listen to the episode to get more guidance and step by step help...   References: Tina Marie's website: www.TinaMarie.com Podcast: UnleashYourExtraordinary.com Abolish! - Friday March 23rd -- LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.    

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book! Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- Michael's story is one that we can all relate to because Michael has done what we all dream about which is basically to take the family and the kids, put them in an RV and travel the world. And basically Mike has ... he's been involved with dividends for a while, and so he had his website up which I was following him on his website, and then when he decided to travel all of the North America and South America, I reached out to him, I said, "Hey when you get to Houston or if you get to Houston, look me up, and we'll get together and we meet." So I was able to meet Mike and the family, they stayed with us and it's a wonderful story, so I wanted to bring Mike on. In this episode Mike shares how he was able to take the family all around North and South America - what where his favorite spots, his tips for travelers, how they handled school and a lot more. Many traders tell me that their #1 dream is to travel. Mike made it happen. He did not wait until "retirement" or until the kids are "a little older to remember everything". He did it now. And now is the best time. So check out how he did it. Resources mentioned: Dividend Stocks Rock https://www.dividendstocksrock.com/optiongenius --  LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.  

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book! Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- After 50 years of doing it "the way, you are supposed to do it" Mike's financial planner told him he did not have enough money to retire on time. And there was nothing he could do about it. So Mike took things into his own hands, and decided to trade in his spare time. In the past three years Mike has been successful enough to not only retire on time, but retire EARLY if he chooses to. Or, pretty soon, he will be making enough from his trading to equal his salary as a college professor, and so he will be able to trade in retirement and not have to touch any of his retirement accounts. As he says... "But basically as far as an outlook on the future from doing this trading, if my future performance continues to match the past results which, of course, there’s no guarantee of that there should be no question.  I should not only be able to last as long as they predict I’m going to live, but I should be able to replace my entire working income by the time I retirement. I shouldn’t even have to touch any of the IRA the 401, the social security, whatever.  Obviously when I get eligible Social Security I’m not going to turn it down.  But nonetheless, what I’m saying is that, you know, if the performance continues then within a few years I should be able to easily and more replace my entire income." Listen to the whole episode to hear exactly how Mike turned the tables and the trading strategy he used to change his destiny. -- LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.  

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book! Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- Question, big question for you, so what age do you want to retire? You probably have an answer in mind, right? What is it, like 50, 60, 65, today, tomorrow, you know? Well, what is it? When do you wanna do it? Because for most people, the age just keeps creeping higher and higher and it's scary really. Everything, you have these articles coming out always, people are now retiring, people don't have money when they retire. Back in the day you worked 20 years, you get a pension, you get a gold watch and you're done. Woo-hoo. Then if you want to, you can go back and get another job because you're still not that old or you could just leave up your retirement, live off your savings or whatever, social security. You have a good retirement. Back in the golden days when the old people actually got to not have to work at McDonald's. But then today the age is just going higher and higher. First it was work 20 years, get a pension. Then it was 55 was a good age to retire, then it was 60, then 62. Now the typical American retires at age 63 and it just keeps getting longer and longer. A few years from now they'll be like, "Well, you've got to wait till 65, 66, 67." Yes, I know we're living a little bit longer, but that doesn't mean that we should use those extra years that we're getting to be working, because those extra years that we're getting, we might be getting them, it doesn't mean we're going to be in the best of health. So the time that we're spending is going to be in poor health as retirement age. That tells me just the way people think about retirement is completely off to me. The fact that they look at work as so horrible and then retirement is so amazing. Recently I had a deadline that I wanted to get a calendar for, the kind of calendar, not a calendar but it would be like a countdown. So it was like a one year to this particular goal that I wanted, and I wanted something on my desk where every year it would tell me okay, you've got 365 days left. Then you would tear off the page and it would be like you've got 364 days left. I wanted a countdown calendar like that. Really couldn't find anything online, but they do have these retirement calendars, so if you have a year left to retirement, that's the one I got. It was a year left to retirement so it's this big thick calendar, sheets, 365 sheets. Then in big black letters it tells you retirement days left and it gives you the big number. I just used it for the number, but on the bottom it has all these quotes I guess to keep you motivated or just to be funny. It has all these funny things like, "Fifty days left till freedom." "Seventy days left till your time is your own." Here's a funny one, "The heck with adulthood. Time to start acting like a kid again." You know? That's what people think about. The way it's worded is like work is so horrible and evil and retirement is going to be so grand and wonderful. Well, not if you can't afford it like most people can't, you know? It's not going to be all that. I just read this article by this financial adviser Suze Orman who says that you should not even, you shouldn't even retire at 63 when the average person retires. You should wait much longer than that. You've probably seen Suze Orman. She's got, I mean she's older. I don't know how old she is, but she's got this colored hair, dyed I guess it's blond with blackish roots or something like that. She does a great job getting on TV and she has dozens of books out there, kits, courses and other products about financial planning. Every once in a while she'll do a special on PBS talking about how to retire and whatnot. She has this show, you might have seen it, it's late night, people call her and ask her if they can afford certain purchases. There will the guy that's like, "Hey you know, I've got $10,000 in the bank, but I want to go buy a boat and I'm 60-years-old." No. She'll be yelling at him like, "No, you can't do that. You have to take that money and put it in a mutual fund," stuff like that. There was the one time where this lady called and she was asking if she could afford to buy a $300 purse. Suze Orman is asking her all these questions. Turns out that this lady has $12,000 of credit card debt that she hasn't paid off in years. She still wants to spend $300 on a purse. Yeah, so those are the math wizards that Suze helps, you know? What age do you think Suze wants you to retire? Listen to the episode to find out.   What to Learn How To Sell Options? Get Our Free Course at - www.optiongenius.com --  LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.  

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book!   Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- Dale Hefner is a 81 year old retired business owner in Amarillo Texas. He has fun spending time with his wife, going into town, and trading options. Listen in as he shares how he turned a $4,000 account into $21,000 - a $17,000 gain in just 12 months!   Allen:  So, 2011 that was the Option Genius that you signed up with? Dale:  Yes.  I was originally started and I started doing spreads following you on the Rut, SPX, ETF’s, and during the Iron Condors and the spread.  Didn’t do as many Iron Condors as you were doing, but I did do some.  And then I went to doing the spreads and I had good luck of spreads, but I had many, many spreads back then and still do and I had been exposed to the oil field industry some years back and I started looking at that and then all the sudden out of the clear blue you, you announced that you were going to start Blank Check Traders and I was elated when you did. I thought, well, this-this is going to be right down my alley and you haven’t let me down or any of your students from the way I can read on the Facebook page. Allen: Yeah, well we try not to [laughing].  So, do you do this, you’re still working or your full time trading or how long, how many, how long does it take? Dale: I’m more or less, well, I guess you could call it full-time, I have nothing other than that to do that pays. Allen:  [laughing]. Dale:  And, I probably make three to four trades a month.  I think last year I made a total of 30-31 trades and after I took my losses off of some of the trades I made I think I made it about $17,000.   Allen:  But like… So, Dale, but how long… how long does it take you to do the trading in time wise? Dale:  Well, I don’t I try not to stay in a trade over 20 days if I can. Allen:  Okay.  No, but I’m talking like in a minute.  Does it take you two hours a day? Four hours a day? Dale:  Oh. No.  My gosh no.  Uh, you know I’ll get up, I’m an early riser, I get up at 5:30/6:00 o’clock, I have my coffee, then when the market opens I’ve already got my screen up.  My think or swim platform up, maybe read up on fundamentals, things of that nature then, uh, then I start watching the market and if it looks pretty non volatile I may go into town, spend some time there, I may go over to my old business office and spend some time there and then that afternoon I might check it and see if I need to make an adjustment or get out. Dale:  I’d say if I spent a total of an hour a day that-that would be, uh, probably extravagant. Allen:  Okay.  Alright.  And I do have a personal question for you because I know that we get a lot of folks who are retired or looking to retire soon and I often get this comment from a lot of people that, you know, “Hey Allen I’m in my 60’s” or “Allen, I’m, you know, I’m close to 70 and I just don’t have, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to learn something new.  It’s going to be complicated, I’ve never done this type of trading before.” What-what would you say to that. Dale: Well, you just almost to the verbatim said some things that some of my friends and associates that I know ask me.  They said how are you doing retiring what you are doing with yourself.  And I get around to tell them that, you know, that I met you on the internet a long time ago back in ’11 and that I’m selling options and that intrigues them and then I get to tell in them about it, then you can see some of them get impressed about it and some of them get very skeptical and you said it well, I don’t know if I can learn it and I just tell them, frankly, what is there to learn, really? I said, hell, you can spend a few hundred bucks and I can put you on to a young man that if you follow his advice and follow his webinars and you can follow hiss trades along with it, you know, if you want to go with ETF’s or Indexes or whatever, but I said I’ll just… I’ve made it my goal to learn the commodities market.  I love it and that’s why I’ve told you in the past in past conversations that I feel like I’ve met my that I’ve found my niche.  I’m 78 years old, I don’t have to make a lot of money, but it sure is nice to have a 25, 30m $45,000 or more coming in.   Dale:  And for people… and for people that get bored during the day I think it would be, you know, there’s times that I come here and look and if it’s snowing outside or bad weather outside, this is a contradiction maybe, but if I got my screen up I’ll come in and check it once every hour. Just for something to do, it gives me something to do. Allen:  [laughing] Yep. Well, I mean if you’re making that much and the time you’re spending on it, you know, per hour you’re doing pretty well, so, you know… Dale:  I’ll put it this way, had I known that it was like this and that I could, find someone like you that could explain it in terms that I understood, without making it, uh, you know, sound like it was, you know like some people they bring the Greeks into it and all that.  Well, I’ve studied the Greeks and-and rightfully so, you need to know something about the Greeks if you’re going to play options, but, I just… I think it’s the greatest thing that ever happened.  I wish it happened to me 20 years ago. Allen:  [laughing]. Dale:  I’d of probably retired had it of happened and I had the fortune of-of-of meeting you, the good fortune of meeting you 20 years ago I’d probably retire 10 years since. -- LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... 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People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book!   Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- I realized that we have done many episodes already where we talk about why you should be selling options, but never gave an explanation. Option sellers trade in a market neutral way. So you don’t need to market to go up or down. You can trade it when it doesn’t even move. Also, option sellers have probability on their side. So we do trades that have for example a 70%, 80%, or even 90% probability of working out in our favor. These calculations are done using sophisticated statistics and mathematical formulas that won the Nobel Prize. In addition, to be even safer, we use other risk management techniques like stop losses, and spreads which limit our losses. And the example given was the insurance company. So just like the insurance company collects premiums so do option sellers. In fact, the insurance company analogy is a great one. Because as well talked about in 8, the real reason options were created were as a way to lose money. They were created as a hedge. As insurance. So the option seller acts as the insurance company be selling options to farmers, manufactures, and investors who are looking to protect their positions. That’s one way to describe the option seller. The second is as a casino or more accurately as the house. The house takes bets from gamblers and has the odds in its favor. Over the long run, the house always wins. For us, the gamblers are called speculators. These are the option buyers who are betting against the odds hoping for a big payday. Kinda like lottery ticket buyers. The option seller is the house, and takes the other side of the bet. Once in a while, the option seller loses, but over time, the house always wins. It’s just math. And with the odds in my favor, I don’t care which way the market goes. I don’t have to predict. If I want to do a bullish trade, I can, but I don’t have to be right to make money. This removes so much of the stress. When you have a 70, 80, even 90% chance of winning on a trade, you don’t have to be the best trader in the world to make money. You see, when you buy a stock it has to go up for you to make money. And if it does not, then your money is just sitting there not earning anything. Unless it’s a dividend stock and you get some measly return like 2%. And if it goes down then you lose. You have to be right about the direction. It is the same with buying options, except it is exponentially harder Not only do you have to be right about the direction, but you have to know by when the move will take place, and how much the stock will move. If you are wrong on any of those three elements, you lose. Here’s the magic: When selling options, you get to play a range. The stock does what it does and as long as it stays in the range you want, you win. Let’s use golf as an example. To make money with stocks you have to get the ball into the hole in 3 strokes. To make money by buying options you have to hit a hole in one. To make money by selling options you just have to hit the ball onto the course. One additional point I want to make is that emotionally, winning more often does wonders for your self-esteem and confidence. And as a trader, having confidence in your trades and yourself is a key factor to success. Because with selling options, what we are doing is hitting base hits. Over and over. Not trying to hit home runs. Because you know what happens to the guy who tries for home runs – he strikes out most of the time. And in investing, a strike out means losing money which is not a good thing. The episodes continues with examples of. Listen to the whole thing to get the complete picture. What to Learn How To Sell Options? Get Our Free Course at - www.optiongenius.com -- LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.  

People literally ask me this one question ALL THE TIME… “Allen, how did come up with such a lucrative, safe, and easy way to trade?” I explain it all in my new book Passive Trading, get your free book here  https://www.passivetrading.com/free-book! Option Genius was built with you...the individual trader, the breadwinner, the dreamer, the rock your family depends on ...in mind. Because we know what it takes to become a successful and profitable trader. And that’s exactly what we help you do best. Get your $1 trial of Simon Says Options, our most conservative and profitable trading service here https://simonsaysoptions.com/stockslist-ss-trial-offer.  -- Around the end of every year and beginning of the next, the world is flooded with folks giving their predictions about what will occur in the coming year. Some of these actually come true. But most are just for fun. These fortune tellers think that something might happen and because of that something else might occur. Mostly these folks are just looking for some free publicity. Which is why I hate predictions. Don’t give me a guess. Give me some real information that I can use to make an educated guess So what I like to do instead of to look at trends. Long term trends. I am a more Macroeconomic guy than micro if you know what that means. And one of the folks I look up to is Jim Rogers. This guy started the Quamtum Fund with George Soros and made billions. His whole philosophy is to see where the money is sitting in the corner and go pick it up. No need to fight for it or work too hard. Sounds pretty good to me. So then how do we use this info Well you look at what has been happening in the world, compare it to history and see what you see. Stop looking at the minutia, the day to day news and look at the big picture. These are the Top 5 Trends that will shape 2018.   Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Jim Rogers Bitcoin Episodes: Episode 006 – Bitcoin Scams You Need To Be Aware Of Episode 007 – How To Invest In Bitcoin Contact help@optiongenius.com for your questions     Download the Free Option Trader's Treasure Map: http://optiongenius.com/map Join Our Free Facebook Group called The Option Trader's Alliance: https://web.facebook.com/groups/465974750429703/ -- LOVE ALLEN SAMA - OPTION GENIUS AND WANT TO LEARN MORE TRADING TIPS  AND TRICKS? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS... SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST FREE 9 LESSON COURSE: https://optiongenius.com/ WATCH THIS FREE TRAINING: https://passivetrading.com JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://optiongenius.com/alliance Like our show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps.