Option Strategy cheatsheet

On the 1/3/2017 Best Practices discussed some cheatsheets for strategy entry and exit. PDF file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/tastytradepubli...

Futures Cheat Sheet

Courtesy of  Katie from TastyTrade she put together this great futures cheat sheet with the tick size, margin requirements, deltas, and trad...

Short gamma and short option affects on futures

Yesterday the market had a quick and fast drop in the ES futures, but you be reversed partly due to triple witching options expiration week....

Uncorrelated trading

Diversify portfolio using uncorrelated underlyings. In this case, if we are selling strangles with 30 delta, putting on uncorrelated strangl...

Tastytrade top dogs for small accounts

Episode 2: https://s3.amazonaws.com/tastytradepublicmedia/show/154/episode/25324/slide_decks/en/16_01_27_For_small_accounts_2_of_6_(Top_Do...

Consecutive losses

Consecutive losses https://www.tastytrade.com/tt/shows/tasty-bites/episodes/consecutive-losses-04-26-2016 Slides  Summary: The table in...

Strangles with Protection

For smaller accounts and to prevent the fat tail risk of a greater than 2 standard deviation move, one can call a strangle with about a 20 d...

Synthetically replicating 50 shares of stock with stocks

Options Jive 2-3-2016 Replicating 50 shares of stock using options ( Slides ) Odd-lot positions (less than 100 shares) can be created by u...

When to take profits and losses

Tasty trade Options Jive on 2-5-2016 did some research ( Slides ) on when to take profits and losses by giving a quick rule of thumb whethe...

Exiting straddles

Slides From TastyTrade 6/9 Market Measures My takeaways are that Here are the notes from Tastytrade  Source: Tastytra...

Volatility revisited

Tastytrades's Best Practices on the 5/11/2015 show has a great show on many of the commonly asked questions about Implied Volatility. ...

Sell in May? Monthly returns may surprise you...

Tasty trade had a great segment that looks into the adage "Sell in May and go away". The results may surprise you. Bottom line: ...

Standard Deviation & Option probability and its application toselling Option Premium

Standard Deviation and application for selling Option Premium On the 10/24 episode of What Elsa Ya Got , Tastytrade had a discussion of st...

Credit collected as percentage of stock price

On the 9/9 Market Measure show Tasty Trade showed a study that you for 1 SD strangle you would the credit be be great than 1.93% of the stoc...