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We are all familiar with the volume histogram at the bottom of the chart.

But that only tells you the volume of transactions at a certain time.

What is more important is to know the volume of transactions at a certain price.

This is known as the volume profile that many institutional traders use.

Many retail traders don’t have access to this volume...


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If you’ve watched my video on the best delta for selling puts, you already know the naked put framework.

But put credit spreads introduce a variable that doesn’t exist with naked puts – spread width.

Get that wrong and you’re either taking on too much risk for too little reward, or your probability of profit isn’t as good as it looks on paper.

In this vid...


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The Sharpe Ratio is a common metric used in quant finance to gauge how good a strategy or portfolio is doing.

In simple terms, the Sharpe Ratio measures the risk-adjusted returns.

The higher the Sharpe ratio, the better.

In more complicated terms, the Sharpe Ratio is the portfolio return minus the risk-free return divided by the standard deviation of the ...


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The bull put credit spread is one of the most popular bullish option strategies.

It is a vertical spread because both options share the same expiration date, and it is often one of the first multi-leg strategies that every options trader should learn.

A...


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Every options trader faces losing trades.

It’s not a question of if, it’s when.

What separates consistently profitable traders from everyone else isn’t avoiding losses; it’s knowing exactly what to do when a trade moves against you.

In this video, you’ll learn the complete adjustment framework for three core strategies – cash secured puts, credit ...


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