barn32
05-23-2015, 01:03 PM
I finally got around to watching some live episodes of TastyTrade, and I believe I can sum up that program in two words...implied volatility.
That seems to be all they talk about.
Basically, the majority of their trades are based around selling premium. Straddles, strangles, verticals, condors, etc. And when they sell premium they're looking for high volatility stocks and derivatives. All well and good, but doesn't high volatility mean higher risk? And they do seem to do an awful lot of rolling, which implies to me that they got into some bad trades to begin with.
They also do a lot of in depth geeky math type segments that are almost impossible to understand, at least for me anyway.
I'm not saying there isn't something to be learned here... There is. I also do these types of trades. But I also do low volatility trades, weekly options, and other things as well.
I might be reading this wrong, but I think this is the general gist of things on TastyTrade.
That seems to be all they talk about.
Basically, the majority of their trades are based around selling premium. Straddles, strangles, verticals, condors, etc. And when they sell premium they're looking for high volatility stocks and derivatives. All well and good, but doesn't high volatility mean higher risk? And they do seem to do an awful lot of rolling, which implies to me that they got into some bad trades to begin with.
They also do a lot of in depth geeky math type segments that are almost impossible to understand, at least for me anyway.
I'm not saying there isn't something to be learned here... There is. I also do these types of trades. But I also do low volatility trades, weekly options, and other things as well.
I might be reading this wrong, but I think this is the general gist of things on TastyTrade.