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

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

income. Now your host and head trader at option alpha.com, Kirk depluses.

Hey everyone, this Kirkier again at option offer

com working every single day to make this the most popular

investing podcast offered online and in iTunes because it's based on one thing

and one thing only and that's helping you guys make smarter trades.

So again thank you guys so much for tuning in today.

Today on this show we want to talk about how we can help answer the question what contract

month and option strike price should I buy or sell and

this is a huge question in fact if you're listening this you probably have this question

yourself and you're thinking yourself well Kirk okay great there should be one

single like consistent framework to say this is the contracts you should always do and these

are the strike prices you should always do but the simple answer to that is no, unfortunately, there is not

one unicorn option strategy out there.

And so actually I'm going to take a step back and say this, I am begging the entire option

alpha community. In fact, the entire option alpha community in fact the entire options trading community

to stop looking for the unicorn strategy there is no one single always the same consistent framework that works across all time periods

and all implied volatility levels it does not exist why is everyone continuing to look for this

the biggest takeaway that we had from when we

did our profit matrix research, which you can go back to show I believe 100 where

we talked about that a little bit more, was that there is no consistent strategy that works in all time periods and all strike prices

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