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The Option Alpha Podcast

241: Top Trader Interviews - Kevin

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this interview, Kirk sits down with Kevin, a long-time Option Alpha member who began trading in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Kevin shares how he turned his small beginnings into a consistent, structured approach that scales with his portfolio. Kevin details how he spent years learning before placing his first options trade and how those early experiences shaped his disciplined, rules-based philosophy. He explains how he uses position sizing, trend, and DTE selection to creat...

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, this Kirk here again at Option Alpha. So welcome back to another podcast. Today we've got a really awesome guest. Kevin who's coming in here, who's been a long-time member of the Option Alpha community.

0:21.5

He was originally coming in.

0:23.4

Actually, I learned after we were finished recording this, but he was originally on the wait list

0:27.9

when we originally launched the Auto Trading Platform.

0:30.7

So he's been around a long time.

0:31.8

He's seen a lot of developments in the Option Alpha platform, which is really cool.

0:35.2

But I think what you're going to love about his interview

0:38.8

today and hearing his story is just how he started really small with his strategy and started to

0:45.4

grow the strategy and expand it out, but still keeping a lot of the rules and systematic things

0:51.9

that I think you need to be successful as a trader in place.

0:56.4

And so you'll hear him talk a lot about the fundamentals of securities that he's trading

1:02.1

and the rules and the guidelines that he uses for getting into trades or getting out of

1:08.4

trades or position sizing trades.

1:10.7

You'll also hear about the

1:11.7

time that he took to just learn a lot about the options trading market and the industry and

1:16.7

trading before jumping in with live trading. So I think what you'll find is a really, really great

1:22.3

interview, a very humble guy who is very clear and succinct and knows what he's doing, spends the time to go back

1:30.0

and re-review things and plan ahead for the next week.

1:33.2

It's really a great example of how you can kind of mimic or guide some of your own potential

1:37.8

trading moving forward.

1:39.5

And I hope you take a lot out of this interview.

1:41.6

So let's jump right in here with Kevin.

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