You hear all the time, the trend is your friend.

While there's no doubt that trend trading strategies and filtering can help improve overall performance,

we also wanted to challenge the conventional wisdom when it comes to directional option selling strategies.

So we did some back testing and took some basic option selling strategies

and applied a simple long-term trend filter to see if it helped or hurt the performance of the strategy.

And for good measure, we spread the testing across three major asset classes,

testing SPY, TLT, and GLT.

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We've got a really cool episode here where we're talking about trend trading filters.

And if applying a very simple trend filter can improve directional option selling strategies.

So what do we mean by this with directional option selling strategies?

We're talking about selling put spreads and selling call spreads.

Those are directional selling strategies.

You could say they're kind of semi non directional.

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