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The Option Alpha Podcast

25: Interview w/ John Carter: Balancing Trades & Financing Strategies for More Consistent Winners

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast I have the great pleasure of interviewing long-time trader and industry veteran John Carter - founder of SimplerOptions.com. One of the many benefits of doing this podcast has been the opportunity to meet and connect with other traders with whom I admire and have followed for years. John has been on my short list of those to contact for this podcast (with many more coming that you all will enjoy!) What's so great about his story is...

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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

0:06.2

make smarter trades learn how the stock market really works and generate consistent

0:10.8

monthly income. Now your host and head trader at

0:15.0

option alpha.com Kirk depluses.

0:20.0

Hey everyone this is Kirk here again from option alpha

0:22.6

com working every single week to make this the most popular investing

0:26.2

podcast offered in iTunes and online because it's based on one thing and

0:30.6

one thing only and that's helping you make smarter trades.

0:33.5

So thank you so much for tuning in again today.

0:35.8

This is show number 25 and we've got an awesome guest that's going to be joining us for

0:40.1

our interview and that's John Carter.

0:41.7

Someone I definitely look up to and respect. He's been

0:44.0

around a long time and what you'll find during this interview is we go through so many different topics

0:49.7

from his start and how he got started trading in 1998 and how he uses technical

0:55.2

analysis, earnings trades, financing other trades, consistency, trade size,

1:00.3

volatility, there's so much to learn in this interview so make sure you pay

1:05.2

attention it's going to be a little bit longer but one key thing I want you to

1:08.8

pay attention to as we kind of go through this interview with him is that what I really appreciate and

1:14.2

admire about John is that he is very self-aware of what he's doing.

1:18.6

So it's a really hard thing not only in trading but also just in business to be self-aware of what

1:24.6

you're doing and be willing to make adjustments and changes along the way and I

1:28.1

think what you'll find as you listen to this interview is that his basic

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