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What if your portfolio looks diversified — but isn’t? This episode explores the concept of the “Pearl Harbor "portfolio, where hidden concen...
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At Option Alpha we are devoted to empowering traders with simple, powerful tools supported by world-class research and education. For far too long the options industry has been fragmented, l...

What if your portfolio looks diversified — but isn’t? This episode explores the concept of the “Pearl Harbor "portfolio, where hidden concen...

Trading doesn’t have to consume your life to be effective. In this episode, long-time Option Alpha member Jack Krupey shares how a backgroun...

Short-term trading moves fast—but without a long-term mindset, it often leads to burnout, overtrading, and inconsistency. This episode explo...

Going live with real money brings realities that paper trading simply cannot replicate. In this episode, Kirk walks through the five essenti...

In this interview, Kirk sits down with Kevin, a long-time Option Alpha member who began trading in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisi...

Markets rarely behave as predicted by mathematical models, and extreme events occur far more frequently than traditional models anticipate....

0DTE options are transforming the way traders approach opportunity and risk. This episode breaks down why these contracts are so powerful (a...

In this episode of the Option Alpha podcast, Kirk sits down with his business partner and fellow founder, Jack Slocum, to share the full sto...

As an options trader, how closely should you be watching gamma and gamma exposure (GEX)? This episode will help you better understand gamma,...

Gamma is one of the most misunderstood yet powerful forces driving options markets. In this episode, Kirk sits down with Lex from Tradier to...

Welcome to the Top Traders interview series, where we hear from Option Alpha community members who have delivered strong results over a mean...

In this comeback episode, I’ll catch you up on the biggest updates inside Option Alpha, the major shifts in today’s options market (hello, 0...

We're joined by Adam Cohn, Vice President and Head of Trading Operations at TradeStation, an award-winning trading platform known for i...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show232 Navigating options expiration is a critical skill for traders, especially with the rise of daily...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show231 This week we explore the latest and most pressing challenges emerging for investors who have emb...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show230 This week I explore a deep and philosophical viewpoint into the world of automated trading and i...

AI is the hot new buzzword these days, sparked by the release of ChatGPT a few months ago. Since then, it seems everyone has used OpenAI’s s...

How long does it take a stock to get back to even after a large daily move down? And does the magnitude impact how long it takes the positio...

Stocks have been described as a rubber band, and we often assume they will snap back and revert when prices become overextended. So, we want...

"The trend is your friend." It’s a popular saying amongst traders, and we hear it all the time. But is there validity in the statement? We b...

This week we take a look at the performance of the Monthly Iron Condors ($3k Portfolio) bot template. You might recall that we previously di...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show224 Option spreads are a simple and flexible, yet powerful strategy for traders. And while spread st...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show223 What if you could build an automated strategy that navigates all market conditions? And while we...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show222 Option strike prices are an absolutely critical concept to master if you're going to seriou...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show221 Starting to trade a covered call strategy is a popular "bridge" for traditional stock traders or...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show220 In today's show, I'll walk through four clever, dare I say "wicked-smart", ways to lev...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show219 Calculating break even prices for different option strategies isn't as complicated and over...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show218 In life there are three things that are certain; death, taxes, and bear markets. For many new op...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show217 Hey everyone this is Kirk here again from optionalpha.com, working every single week to make thi...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show216 Hey everyone this is Kirk here again from optionalpha.com, working every single week to make thi...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show215 On this week's episode, we'll present a collection of questions custom tailored for di...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show214 New traders with small accounts are constantly on the hunt for option strategies that help them...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show213 Last year during the beta launch of the autotrading platform, I decided to take some time off fr...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show212 Allocating capital used to be a cumbersome and time-consuming process. Breaking out your calcula...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show211 The iron butterfly strategy is a popular neutral options strategy. Plus, with their high probabi...

Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show210 Sometimes we don't know what we don't know. As a trader, we might have been conditione...

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...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show208 The decades long evolution and growth in easily accessible brokerage platforms have created a se...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show207 Earlier this year we officially rolled out a massive free resource for traders with our launch o...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show206 On this week's episode, I wanted to try something new and explore just a single bot templat...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show205 Often the terms hedging and diversifying are used interchangeably by traders. You might hear som...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show204 Ever wish you could intelligently use automated technology that tracked and or trailed option tr...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show203 Futures trading is on the rise and continues to grow in popularity. The trouble has been however...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show202 Decision recipes use easy to read natural language to help you setup detailed instructions for y...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show201 This week on the podcast we finally release our much anticipated interview with Jason Goepfert o...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show200 Well today we celebrate the 200th episode of the Option Alpha Podcast. First of all, I would lik...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show199 As automated trading starts going mainstream for retail traders, we wanted to ensure that expect...

Show notes: https://optionalpha.com/show198 After a couple of months on pause for the podcast, while we focused on the beta launch of our au...

Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show197 There's a lot of research to support the usage of trend indicators as simple risk reduction...

Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show196 Trading short naked puts (i.e. put selling or put writing) can be an effective and profitable opt...