Links


Here is a collection of links to resources that I find useful.  Please feel free to suggest more to look in the comments.

  1. Option Scanning: How to Find Puts with the Highest Premium, The Hourglass Trader, 2021 [YouTube] - This video introduces how to create basic options scanners for selling put options.
  2. Think Or Swim Desktop - The Think Or Swim Desktop has many more features than the web site.  It is used by the option scanning video above.
  3. Optimal Order For Investing Your Money, Tae Kim - Financial Tortoise [YouTube] - If you have leftover cash, how can you use it?  Tae Kim talks about how to prioritize investments, like 401Ks, 529s, HSAs, etc.  This is just his opinion, but I like how he lays out very common options.
  4. Option Wheel Trading
    1. The HT Option Wheel Part One, The Hourglass Trader, 2021 [YouTube] - Example of how to profit when a cash covered put's underlying drops 15%.
      1. This is a four-part series where HT goes over its HT Wheel strategy using a pessimistic example.  See part 4 for a walkthrough involving manual assignments, position sizing, and covered strangles [YouTube].
  5. Is there a best time to day, day or week, or month of year to make trading decisions?  [Investopedia]
  6. S and P annual returns, [Investopedia]
  7. An analysis of different covered call ETFs including JEPI [YouTube]
  8. A new covered call ETF that is less volatile, more tax efficient, and captures more capital gains than JEPI [YouTube]
  9. MarketWatch U.S. Economic Calendar - https://www.marketwatch.com/economy-politics/calendar
  10. An argument for DIY cash flow versus JEPI [YouTube]
  11. Poor man's covered calls
    1. What to do with covered calls when the underlying prices surge [YouTube]
    2. Video that recommends selling a put when you roll out unprofitably to recover some profit [YouTube]
  12. Example of how to increase the return on SCHD to 20% annualized [YouTube]
  13. Taxes
    1. How Traders Can (Legally) Avoid 50%+ Taxes 💰, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xla4YA5OBAQ
  14. https://windgatewealth.com/two-for-the-money-can-i-contribute-to-two-retirement-plans-if-i-work-two-jobs
  15. Trading during earnings
    1. https://optionalpha.com/blog/the-three-best-option-strategies-for-earnings
  16. General trading strategies
    1. 10 month moving average rule - Best Trading Indicator To Build A Strategy Upon (100 Year Back Test!) (youtube.com)
  17. The Complete Beginner's Guide To Managing Losing Iron Condors (youtube.com) - iron condor / managing losing trades

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