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215: The 15 Trading Psychology Questions to Ask Yourself If You Don't Have a Trading Coach Apr 12, 2022

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Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show215
On this week's episode, we'll present a collection of questions custom tailored for digging deep into your psychology and mindset around trading. These are questions you should ask yourself, ones that trading coach might ask you, on a recurring schedule to help uncover and keep a pulse on the potentially harmful subconscious "self-talk" that tends to consume you. Look, trading options is already hard enough and it's certainly not in your best interest be your own worst enemy when it comes to your mindset. We cannot predict or control the markets, though we all try on some level, but we absolutely can learn to focus and control our minds if we give it the attention it deserves. To help frame our trading psychology session together we'll walk through 15 questions you should ask yourself right now.

214: Build A Fully Automated Options Portfolio with $3,000 in 1-Click Mar 16, 2022

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Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show214
New traders with small accounts are constantly on the hunt for option strategies that help them get started but intelligently allocate their money without blowing up. And so back on Show 159 of the podcast we outlined a framework for building an options portfolio with just $3,000 which become of our most popular episodes. But when we recorded it, almost 2 years ago, we didn't have automated trading which means you still had to take everything we discussed and manually implement and execute the trading strategy yourself. Well, the days of manually trading are history. We've entered a new era with autotrading technology and on today's show we'll blow your mind as we introduce a new bot template you can clone in 1-click that was specifically built for traders with a small portfolio around $3,000.

213: What I Learned From NOT Trading Last Year Mar 01, 2022

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Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show213
Last year during the beta launch of the autotrading platform, I decided to take some time off from trading so that my full and undivided attention was appropriately on supporting groups of beta users during the launch of the autotrading platform. Plus, my live accounts were the proverbial "guinea pigs" for lots of critical testing and bug hunting that could only be found when connecting bots to live markets. But this "reflection time" was not only welcomed because of the time it freed up in my daily routine, it also was enlightening to sit back and observe for an extended period of time. And now that I'm back to trading (with bots of course), I thought it might be helpful to share some of the the things that stuck out most during my time not trading. As they say, self-reflection is scary but necessary for growth.

212: How Smart Traders Allocate Capital Efficiently Inside Their Bots Feb 22, 2022

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Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show212
Allocating capital used to be a cumbersome and time-consuming process. Breaking out your calculator or excel spreadsheet to manually run risk calculations and position sizing percentages before opening new trades. That's all of course if you actually remember to check your position sizing before each new position. Now, with automated trading, smart traders are creating highly efficient capital allocation systems that correctly adjust position sizing on the fly without ever forgetting or skipping this critical step. In this week's show, we'll spotlight unique and automated ways to allocation capital inside your bots and unpack some thought-provoking questions you should consider when building your trading strategy.

211: Iron Butterfly Strategy - 8 Tips Before Your Next Trade Feb 07, 2022

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Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show211
The iron butterfly strategy is a popular neutral options strategy. Plus, with their high probability and risk-defined characteristics, traders of any experience level can use in their portfolios. On this week's show we'll invest some time together and help you understand as many of the "ins and outs" of trading iron butterflies as we can possibly fit into an episode. We hope this becomes your new "go-to" resource for learning how to trade iron butterflies and helps answer important questions around entering and managing them in your automated portfolio.

210: 12 Complex Things That Are Simple To Automate w/ Bots Jan 31, 2022

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Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show210
Sometimes we don't know what we don't know. As a trader, we might have been conditioned after years of using legacy platforms to just "suck it up" and grid our way through complex and tedious tasks on a daily basis. But with automated trading, you can finally offload the things you do now (or should be doing) as a trader for bots and automations. In today's show, we'll highlight at least 12 complex things that are simple to automate with bots. If you're serious about trading this year then it's time to get serious about being efficient with your time by leveraging these new automation tools.

209: The Doors Are Open to Autotrading & The Next Chapter of Option Alpha Jan 18, 2022

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We are excited to announce that the Option Alpha platform doors are open to the trading public!

This episode explains how you can get access to our new platform and what to expect when you begin autotrading. We’ll also do a deep dive on why we built the platform, what it is, what it is not, and what’s next for Option Alpha.
How to Get Access

Join the Waitlist and request an invitation.
You will gain access to a FREE 30-day trial with no limitations and no commitments.
You can move up the list by referring your friends and family. The more you refer, the faster you’ll move up the list.
If you don't want to wait, you can get immediate access by upgrading to an annual subscription. PS - We’re giving away a 50% discount during our launch promo!
You can also skip the line by using the promo code shared in this episode.

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show209

208: The Importance of Deep Work for Traders Sep 13, 2021

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Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show208
The decades long evolution and growth in easily accessible brokerage platforms have created a self-reinforcing cycle of low attention span investors that are also now pulling even the deepest and most steadfast investors down the rabbit hole. Plus, the rise and popularity of meme stock investing certainly has pulled investor attention spans away from traditional analysis and reprogramed us constantly look for the next big move. On today's show we'll explore why the speed and magnitude of stock movements causes us to fall victim to classic investor biases precisely when we need to elevate ourselves above the noise and argue that “deep work” is more important than ever for traders.

207: The Option Alpha "Handbook" Aug 16, 2021

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Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show207
Earlier this year we officially rolled out a massive free resource for traders with our launch of The Option Alpha Handbook. No more wasting time searching endlessly across dozens of unreliable sources cluttered with ads to get answers to all your burning questions about strategies, markets, options, and so much more. We built this just for you and our goal is to make it the ultimate reference guide for traders seeking clear, non-subjective answers to thousands of investing questions. Consider this your new "go-to" digital encyclopedia for everything trading you've been looking for but never found until now.

206: Trendy Short Put Spread [Bot Talk] Aug 11, 2021

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Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show206
On this week's episode, I wanted to try something new and explore just a single bot template in detail together - a full and complete deep dive into the origin, strategy, automations, and decisions for one bot template. For this maiden voyage I chose the Trendy Short Put Spread bot which I believe is a great starting point for the potential series of "Bot Talks" in the future. Inside the show, we'll talk about everything from the backtesting we did leading up to outlining the automations to the tweaks and modifications we've made along the way as we've watched it perform through multiple expiration periods.

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