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The Option Alpha Podcast

117: Let's Talk About "Deltas" For Options Trading

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

Education, Options Trading, Trading, Investing, Stock Market, Business, Finance

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show117 One of the most popular and widely used options greek is Delta. And while I believe that you can't necessarily learn about option pricing and option greeks in a vacuum as they all work together to represent potential price action for changing market conditions, having a solid understanding of how Delta works is important both in entering new positions and managing your basket of trades in a portfolio. Today's show dives a little deeper into the lead ...

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You're listening to the Option Alpha Podcast from Option Alpha.com where we show you how to make

0:06.3

smarter trades learn how the stock market really works and generate consistent monthly

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income. Now your host and head trader at

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option alpha.com Kirk depluses.

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Hey everyone this Kirk here again from option alpha. com working every single week to make this the most popular investing

0:26.2

podcast offered online because it's based on one thing and one thing only

0:30.3

and that's helping you guys make smarter trades.

0:32.3

So thanks so much for tuning into today's show.

0:34.8

On today's show, we are going to talk Delta

0:38.0

for options trading.

0:39.6

And really, this kind of spurred out of a question

0:42.2

that came from our membership community where someone

0:44.7

basically just asked, they said, look, you know, I want to, you know, hear a little bit more talk about, you know, Delta.

0:49.4

It seems to be one of the Greeks that we use a little bit more and although we did a

0:53.4

podcast I don't have the number right in front of me right now but although we did a

0:56.7

podcast before on all of the different option Greeks which you can go back and

1:00.4

listen to today we're going to focus on again delta because it does seem to be the one

1:05.2

that that really is is a huge component of how we trade options. It's used in many different

1:11.2

facets and I think having a solid understanding

1:14.1

of how Delta works would really help out

1:16.5

as far as your ability to assess both your portfolio

1:19.8

and maybe which option contracts

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