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Options Strategies

The broader meaning of a strategy is analogous to planning a battle, or in peaceful terms, planning chess moves to win a game, even if your opponent is the finest master in chess. The fact is that often the weakest link in the trading process is the trader himself or herself. The successful trader needs to have the outlook drilldown perfected: start with the global economic situation, then the financial instruments sector and last the analysis of financial instruments.

Analyzing financial instruments, technically, implied volatility, for a financial instrument the question is this: what are the influential indicators, and when will they will publish it? In stocks, you should look for earnings date and critical announcements. To avoid mistakes, the trader should follow the plan, including all routines to the end, and after the trade is completed, start analyzing its benefits and defects, make conclusions, and if needed, fix the plan.

Even if you are just buying a call or a put option, you should carefully plan and execute. In the following strategies, we will cover almost all aspects you should take under consideration before, during, and after the trade has executed. Although planning carefully your moves, you should execute your plan just as a software system would execute its routines with no bugs.
For those who are not familiar with software systems, for programming routines to execute tasks the programmer should consider all variables and concerns executing it. For example, there are conditioning routines such as ‘if this variable happens, then … do this… or… do that…’

Plan Your Trades and Know the Terminology
In the same manner, a trader should carefully plan and execute trades, and only this way he or she will control what happens with the portfolio and how well he or she will succeed. Personally, in the process of developing trading systems, I developed a thorough comprehension of planning and executing trades. I understood how important was to grasp all aspects of a trade. I perceived the implications that I must accomplish all the terms needed to enter a trade. Terms such as earnings date, liquidity, volatility, price range, days to expiration, strikes, several technical formations and statistical calculations. Earnings date could be crucial for any trade when you are on the wrong side of the bet, unless your intentions are for a sharp move.

‘Days to expiration’ is also a crucial term of your strategy timetable how much time you need to execute your plan, considering ‘theta’ variant? As you already know theta readings are higher as an option’s life is shortened. Which strike is best to execute your plan? Is it out, at, or in the money, considering the gamma variant (as you already know, the gamma reading gets higher as it gets closer to the ‘at the money’ and lower as it passes it to the ‘in the money’ gamma reading.)

Gauging Volatility
How to enter a trade? When it is better to enter a trade is it in the morning when usually volatility is high? Volatility is high because of a large amount of orders usually coming from the unprofessional crowds that want to get in or out of the market. On midday, when trades are usually less volatile? Volatility drops because most of crowd's orders have been absorbed by the market professionals and bid ask spreads are narrowing as well. Alternatively, close to the end of the day or even better timing, the end of the week, where options prices are traded very close to their fair value, market makers usually do not hold directional positions to the next trading day. They usually intend to stay neutral.

Handling the trade is by having a preplan that will cover all possible contingencies, such as, what time of day should you react? As explained, the crowd's orders are sent to the market at a start of the day or even more significantly, after a weekend; if market prices go in your strategy's direction, then it is okay, but what will happen if prices go against your direction? The time of the day is very important; statistically, market professionals go against the crowd’s orders most of the time and if not so, midday is more appropriate time to see the real price direction.

What action is needed at this point? This is the point where your level of professionalism takes off. Now it is time to move up or down a strike or expiration date and check a suitable partial or a whole component.

What point is a stop-loss? Deciding to exit a trade on a stop-loss point is one of the toughest jobs a trader faces. It is understandable and human to find it hard to admit a loss and get out of the game; but without the skill to get out of a trade on pre-signal, it is a waste of time and do not even bother entering a trade. Finally, if you decided to exit a trade, the process of exiting is also crucial the time in the day, and which component first? Moreover, how do you to place orders correctly?

All that we will comment on each strategy, allowing you to plan your own strategy in addition to benefiting from our trading experience and findings. Although, I must advise you to focus on no more than three strategies and try to master just those strategies; this will empower you to exploit the maximum out of the market.