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The Option Alpha Podcast

129: Do You Recognize These 4 Early Warning Signs Of A Non-Diversified Options Portfolio?

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show129 As options traders focused on income generation, it's important that we consistently work towards maintaining a diversified options portfolio. But are there any "earning warning signs" that we are starting to lose our grip and balance? In today's podcast, I've put together four things you can monitor so you don't wake up tomorrow and realize you've got a non-diversified portfolio that's in need of major repairs. These early warning signals can help y...

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0:00.0

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 option alpha.com, Kirk depluses.

0:17.0

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

0:24.2

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

0:29.1

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

0:32.3

So thank you again so much for tuning into today's show.

0:35.6

In episode 129 here, we are going to help you recognize these four early warning signs of a non diversified options portfolio.

0:45.1

So why are we doing this now?

0:46.7

Well, this is coming on the heels of last week's show, which is 128,

0:50.8

where we talked about the importance of spreading out your trade entry,

0:54.5

increasing your frequency, reducing your risk per trade, so that you're always as

0:58.9

neutral as possible. And so once we start to get into a place where that's the focus of what

1:05.2

we should be doing and trading now we have to start asking ourselves well how do I

1:08.8

know if I'm not diversified or if I'm not neutral enough in my positions.

1:14.2

I think there's a couple early warning signs or things that you can kind of watch out

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for and that's what I want to go through here today.

1:20.4

So again, all this will be available and you can recap it on the show notes page at

1:24.0

option off.com slash show 129 we also do have a couple really good courses again

1:29.2

They're totally free training courses on portfolio beta weighting and adjusting positions and

1:34.4

neutralizing risk and hedging things all of that is available at option alpha

1:38.8

com when you log in so the first thing the first early warning sign that I would say is if you do have large swings in your P&L on a daily basis,

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