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70: How To Manage Trades During Options Expiration Week - Close Or Roll?

70: How To Manage Trades During Options Expiration Week - Close Or Roll?

FromThe Option Alpha Podcast


70: How To Manage Trades During Options Expiration Week - Close Or Roll?

FromThe Option Alpha Podcast

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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Nov 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show70 We’ve reached yet another options expiration week, which can sometimes cause many traders to freak out as they worry about positions that are still lingering in their portfolio. And with the deadline for expiration quickly approaching it's no wonder why many people are incorrectly managing trades with the fears of assignment knocking on their doorstep. Either rushing to close position that shouldn't be closed or waiting too long to act and putting them at risk of a massive "gamma move" in the underlying option's price.   Typically by the time we reach expiration week we've closed positions that hit our profit target and adjusted positions that have gone against us. But as we near the third Friday of every month, we have to come face to face with the realization that some trades just haven't worked out as we might have hoped. In today's episode, I want to help you create a checklist for deciding which positions to close or roll during options expiration week. In particular, I want to walk you through my thought process on which trades I focus on closing first and how I ultimately decide if a position should be rolled to the next expiration month.
Released:
Nov 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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