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The Option Alpha Podcast

132: Can't Trade Unlimited Risk Option Strategies? [Here's 4 Great Alternative Trades]

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show132 Some traders wrongly assume that if they can't trade unlimited risk option strategies, such as straddles and strangles, that they should just avoid trading altogether. Today however, I want to present four great alternative trades to some of the more common unlimited risk options strategies and help you learn how to convert these trades into their synthetic counterparts. The goal of all conversions is to turn a trade from unlimited risk to defined ri...

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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 is Kirkier again from option alpha.com

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working every single week to make this the most popular

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

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

0:33.4

So again, thanks so much for tuning in today.

0:35.2

On today's show, we are going to be talking about

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how you can convert some of these undefined risk

0:42.3

or unlimited risk trades into option strategies that you can use in your IRA account or if you're trading a small account and you need some alternatives that are a little bit better at controlling risk and managing

0:54.4

a position that's what we're going to go over here today.

0:56.7

So again show number 132 all of the show notes can always be found at option alpha.com

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slash show 132 again that's just number 132 option alpha at Option Alpha.com. Show 132.

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Again, that's just number 132.

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Option Alpha.com slash show 132.

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So today we're going to be going over four different alternative traits.

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And the reason that we're going over four

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is because there's really only four types of strategies

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that end up creating what's called an unlimited risk

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type of option strategy.

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