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The Option Alpha Podcast

235: Top Trader Interviews - FK

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Top Traders interview series, where we hear from Option Alpha community members who have delivered strong results over a meaningful number of trades. In this kickoff episode, FK breaks down his disciplined, probability-driven options trading strategies. We'll explore FK’s approach to selling premium with defined risk, sizing positions conservatively, and running a dual-track portfolio that balances longer-term spreads (marathons) with 0DTE trading (sprints) for consistent...

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, this Kirk here again at Option Alpha, and thank you so much for jumping back in here

0:04.9

on the podcast. We've got a special set of shows coming up that we're going to be doing.

0:11.1

I don't know if I'm going to be releasing them all in a row or going to sprinkle them out as we

0:15.9

go here on the podcast. But either way, what I've been doing is I've been recording interviews with some

0:22.3

of our top traders in the community. So what we did is we went back through and we looked at the

0:26.7

traders who had some of the best performance last year inside of the Option Alpha platform.

0:34.5

And it wasn't that they always had to have, for example, the top profit. Because if we had

0:41.1

somebody who had the top profit, but they only traded, let's say, one trade, then that's not really

0:47.1

somebody that we wanted to talk to. Maybe they got lucky on a trade. So we did a little bit of

0:52.0

combination analysis on the number of trades that they had

0:55.8

and their P&L, of course, was a big factor. And so these are interviews that I've been recording

1:01.4

with some of our top traders in the community. What I've loved about doing these recordings

1:06.8

because I've done a number of them so far is how open people are with sharing their strategies,

1:11.6

how humble they are. It's really been an amazing experience. I've personally learned a lot from it,

1:16.6

and I hope you do as well.

1:22.6

Today we're going to actually kick off this series on Top Traders with our first interview.

1:32.5

This is FK, who chose to remain anonymous, but he said I could use his initials of his name.

1:38.2

He's an option of a member, has been for a little bit now, and trading inside of there with bots.

1:43.6

And I think what you're going to hear in this interview with FK is just how much he focuses

1:49.3

on staying humble, staying low-key, removing arrogance, and emotions from his trading.

1:55.3

And he has a quantifiable plan for how he's attacking the market.

2:00.4

And I think that's a really big differentiator. I know I talk

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