157: The Untold Story Of The 3 Little Pigs That Traded Options

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

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🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show157

A couple of weeks ago I was reading the story of the three little pigs to my daughters. And for some reason, I couldn't help but think about the untold story of the three little pigs who traded options? Yes, it's true, many people don't know this but the three little pigs were actually given a large chunk of money from their mother and each decided to trade wildly different options portfolios when they set out on their own. In today's podcast, I'll walk through each of the different portfolios they used and how volatility and variance can impact long-term performance and why it's important that we know the story of the three little pigs that traded options.

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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.
0:17.0	Everyone this Kirk here again from option alpha.com
0:22.0	working every single week to make this
0:23.9	the most popular investing podcast offered online because it's based on one
0:28.2	thing and one thing only and that's helping you guys make smarter trades. So again, thank you so much for tuning into today's show. On today's show I have quite possibly one of my most favorite show titles that I've come up with and it's the untold story of the three little pigs that traded options.
0:44.4	Yes, we're going to go all the way back to your days as a child or even if you're a
0:48.9	pain right now you've undoubtedly read this story to your kids but I want to walk
0:52.3	through these three different kind of scenarios and we're just going to use a little little pigs as little like guinea pigs basically in the sense of you know little models for our discussion here today.
1:02.3	The one thing I will mention is that the
1:04.4	discussion today is going to be a little bit difficult if you're not looking at these
1:08.1	charts. So I'm going to walk through some of these numbers but I have a screenshot of these different portfolios that we're going to be using here today as the basis for our discussion on the website on the show notes page. You just want to head on over to option offer.com slash show one
1:23.8	57 again that's the number one 57 option off dot com slash show one
1:28.4	seven if you haven't yet go ahead just hit pause on the podcast player wherever you're listening to it
1:33.7	head on over there take a look at these so we can walk through these together because
1:37.3	it's really really important that you actually visually see what I'm about to
1:42.1	talk about because unless you see it happening and you can see all these numbers in front of you,
1:46.4	you're going to think to yourself, this is totally crazy or I don't get it or you know, you just get lost in the numbers.
1:52.0	So again, go on over to the website to the show notes page,
1:55.2	pull this up, download it, just look at it as you're listening to this podcast. I think it would help out tremendously.
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