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The Option Alpha Podcast

156: The 4 Market Situations You Should Avoid Aggressively Trading

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show156

Many of our members understand the best times to trade options (i.e. higher IV setups when option premiums are expensive), but should we avoid trading during other market situations? Today's podcast walks through the four general market situations I avoid aggressively trading in and explain why each type requires that you either sit on the sidelines or dramatically scale back your position size.

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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

0:11.2

income. Now your host and head trader at

0:15.0

option alpha.com Kirk depluses.

0:19.0

Hey everyone this Kirk here again from option alpha

0:21.0

com working every single week to make this the most popular

0:24.2

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

0:29.3

you guys make smarter trades. So again, thank you so much for tuning in today on today's show. We are

0:34.1

going to go through the four major market situations you should avoid

0:38.2

aggressively trading and I literally stress the word aggressively here

0:42.2

because that is the key word.

0:44.3

It's not necessarily that you shouldn't avoid trading altogether, but that in many cases you should

0:49.6

avoid being overly aggressive with either your positions or your position sizing.

0:55.3

So I'm absolutely a fan of trading and being very active.

0:59.1

I think it's one of the qualities that ultimately will make market direction more meaningless

1:03.8

for you over time the more often you trade the more that each individual day

1:08.0

becomes less and less important so the key here is if you're going to start trading and you're going to be aggressive about your

1:15.2

trading that you're doing, you probably want to start to avoid some of these market scenarios

1:20.8

or at least scale back dramatically in how you trade during these types of

1:26.1

environments. So again we're going to go through all four of these here today as

1:29.4

always if you want to catch the written version or the transcript of this you can head on

1:33.7

over to option alpha.com slash show one 56 that's just the number one 56 option

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