Should You Exercise an Option? Why Options Are Rarely Exercised Most comments that I get on my YouTube channel are about exercising an option or being assigned on a short option that was in-the-money.The goal with this blog post is to completely familiarise you with why options are rarely exercised and because of that, why […] The post Should You Exercise an Option? Why Options Are Rarely Exercised appeared first on projectoption ..read more

How to Trade Options on a Trading Platform (With tastyworks Example)(Note: This is the third part of our ultimate beginners guide to options trading. If you haven't read the first part and the second part yet, I'd highly recommend you to do so.) So in the last two posts, we discussed a ton of theory […] The post How to Trade Options on a Trading Platform (With tastyworks Example) appeared first on projectoption ..read more

Option Price Components + Shorting Options(Note: This is the second part of our ultimate beginners guide to options trading. If you haven't read the first part yet, I'd highly recommend you to do so. Because without that, this part will not make sense) In the first part of our beginners guide to option trading, we […] The post Option Price Components + Shorting Options (A Quick Guide) appeared first on projectoption ..read more

What is Options Trading? The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Options As someone who teaches options trading, the questions I get to hear the most are - “What is options trading?” and “how can I get started as a beginner?” Today, I'll answer both.Options trading might seem a very difficult thing to learn, as there are […] The post What is Options Trading? The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Options appeared first on projectoption ..read more

What is VXX (VXXB) & How Does it Work? UPDATE May 2nd, 2019: After the maturity of VXX, Barclays launched VXXB, which is essentially the same exact product that the original VXX was. In May 2019, Barclays renamed the new VXXB back to the original ticker symbol, VXX. On January 29th, 2009, Barclays launched VXX, an exchange-traded […] The post What is VXX & How Does it Work? (Volatility Trading) appeared first on projectoption ..read more

Iron Condor Options Strategy (Tutorial + Trade Examples) What is the Iron Condor Options Strategy?The Iron Condor consists of the combination of two popular vertical spread strategies: the bull put spread and bear call spread. Specifically, this is the setup for selling an iron condor, which is the most popular way to trade the strategy. Iron […] The post Iron Condor Options Strategy (Tutorial & Trade Examples) appeared first on projectoption ..read more