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There are some great trading blogs out there these days and the number of bloggers seems to be rapidly expanding. There are a few bloggers who I read on a regular basis. These guys are the crème de le crème of option bloggers who provide great market analysis, trade ideas and educational posts. I wanted to put together this list of the Top 10 Option Trading Bloggers as a resource for other traders to use. Some of these you may have heard of, some may be new to you. I’ve created the list based on a variety of factors including how helpful I find their blogs and their overall popularity. Check them out and let me know if you think I’ve missed anyone. Most of these guys are on Twitter and I’ve set up a list where you can follow them.
1 – Option Pit – Mark Sebastien.
Option Pit is run by Mark Sebastian, a former market maker on both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. Option Pit is a fantastic resource for option traders and blog topics focus a lot on implied volatility, so you can understand why I like it. One of the great things about Option Pit is there is new content pretty much every day and it is ALL high quality stuff. Mark is also a regular on CNBC. I visit this site every day.
2 – Options Hawk – Joe Kunkle.
Options Hawk is another options trading site that has a large focus on trading implied volatility. Joe Kunkle is the man behind the Options Hawk brand and while he doesn’t post on his blog as regularly as some others in this list, when he does post it is all super informative stuff with lots of actionable trade ideas. He is very responsive if you have questions, but don’t take that as a license to bombard him with questions.
3 – Sheridan Option Mentoring – Dan Sheridan.
Dan Sheridan is the Godfather of options education and has been in the business longer than pretty much everyone. Really knows his stuff and provides great free content on his blog. There are also lots of his videos on the CBOE website, if you have time to check those out, you won’t regret it.
4 – The Lazy Trader – Lazy Trader.
The Lazy Trader is a super nice guy. His blog is filled with trading related tips on subjects like psychology, money management and risk management. He also posts his trades on the site and gives an update on how they are performing each weekend. He focuses mostly on credit spreads and iron condors but also has lots of information on other strategies. I did a guest post for the Lazy Trader once which you can check out here.
5 – Option Alpha – Kirk Du Plessis.
Kirk from Option Alpha is the go to guy for beginners wanting to learn options trading. His blog archive and resource section are extensive and filled with interesting tidbits. He trades purely credit spreads, iron condors and naked puts and calls.
6 – Steady Options – Kim Klaiman.
Steady Options, run by Kim Klaiman with contributions from Mark Wolfinger is a great site to visit every week or so. Great articles on must read topics.
7 – Investing With Options – Steven Place.
Another good website to visit on a weekly basis. Investing With Options founder Steven Place is a great teacher about to bring complex topics into an easy to understand format. Blog posts are informative and are great for intermediate traders or beginners looking to expand on their current knowledge base.
8 – VIX and More – Bill Luby.
While technically not a pure options trading blog, VIX and More is the number one resource on all things volatility. Any option trader worth his salt needs to have a solid understanding of volatility . I’ve learned a great deal from the posts I’ve read so far and can’t wait to dive into the rest of them!
9 – The Blue Collar Investor – Alan Ellman.
Alan Ellman from The Blue Collar Investor is probably the foremost expert on covered calls. He’s authored 5 books that have great reviews on Amazon. Allan is very popular with risk averse investors who are looking at options as a way to generate a steady, low risk income. No crazy high-flying trades here, just solid advice for long term investors.
10 – Sassy Options – Rachel Shasha.
Rachel from Sassy options provides excellent market commentary and trading ideas, definitely worth a read each week.
So those are my Top 10 Option Trading Blogs, I’m sure this will create quite a bit of controversy similar to my Top 25 Traders on Twitter post. Feel free to let me know in the comments section if you think I missed anyone.
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A couple of other good ones are:
But unfortunately I already went over my limit of 10. 🙁
Let me add this one.
It is my daily most every single day just to read his thoughts on the current market conditions. It is only that one article a day, but the guy is really good at summarizing all that is going on around the world and he always calls it like he feels it is, either Bullish, Bearish or Neutral, without sugar coding or hedging his language. Very smart trader and brave blogger.
That is a good one, thanks Lazy Trader. I didn’t realize he posted every day.
Awesome, thanks for those!
No worries Alan, hope it helps you.
Very insightful. When writing content we need to think about what others will like to read. Nice to see a new option trading tipping site thats up to date, keep the tips coming :). I have subscribed via , so ill be back.
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Excellent list, thank you.
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I keep going to these websites, blogs and services and I get get anyone to explain how credit spread trading can be profitable given highly negatively skewed risk reward of most trades (especially at higher probability strikes) without pristine trade selection and highly astute adjustments.
Great list. Though I can’t check everyone but will check options hawk and option pit as you listed it on top.
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In this case, do take into account the reasonable percent return required to recover to breakeven when you experience a certain percent of losses (drawdown), as discussed in the previous post.
Then, set money management rules based on your risk tolerance (expressed in terms of percentage of the total account/capital).
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Option 1: Maximum of 2% risk (of the remaining account balance) in each trade.
Option 2: Maximum of 5% risk (of the remaining account balance) in each trade.
In contrast, using Option 2 (max 5% risk for each trade), your account will even exceed that level only after 6 losing trades in a row.
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If the traders/investors always take high risk in their trades, they are more likely to experience disastrous drawdown. Therefore, the way to avoid it is by limiting the size of what you are prepared to lose / risk in any single trade to a certain percentage of your total trading capital/portfolio (i. e. proper position sizing).
A draw down is measured in terms of a percentage between a recent peak to a recent trough of the account/portfolio.
If all your trades were profitable, you will never experience a drawdown. The calculation of draw down would begin only with a losing trade, and continue so long as the account hits new lows.
So, if you lose 10%, you cannot gain back to breakeven by getting 10% return in the next trade, but it would be more than 10%.
Suppose your initial capital is $1000. If you lose 10% ($100), the remaining capital will be $900. If in the next trade you make 10%, your capital will only reach $990, still losing $10 (or 1% loss from the initial capital). In order to recover to breakeven, you will need to make $100/$900 = 11.1% in your next trade.
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For instance, when you lose 20%, you would need to make 25% return on the remaining capital to get back to breakeven. However, if you lose 40%, you have to gain 66.7% to breakeven.
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So long as you have the money / capital to trade, you would still have a chance to recover your losses. However, if your capital is gone, you would have no chance at all to recover, as you have no more money for trading.
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