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The Option Alpha Podcast

31: What Michael Jordan Can Teach Us About Options Trading

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

You know the name, and the legacy. But what you don't know about Michael Jordan and his impressive career might actually help you become a more successful options trader. I know what you're thinking already. Kirk, how on earth does basketball relate to trading options? You see on the outside they don't but once you dig down a little deeper you'll find that the best basketball players have very similar qualities to the best traders. I've been on a mission studying what true "success" looks lik...

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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.

0:18.0

Hey everyone this is Kirk here again from option alpha.com

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working every single week to make this the most

0:24.0

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

0:28.9

thing and one thing only and that's helping you make smarter trade. So thanks so much for tuning in today.

0:34.0

We've got a really cool episode for you and you probably thought when you either saw this or

0:37.9

got a link to this podcast episode, you're like, Kirk, what the heck does basketball and Michael

0:42.4

Jordan have to do with option

0:43.8

strating but I promise you by the end of this episode you'll see that there's a

0:48.1

very distinct correlation between successful people and even athletes like Michael Jordan and basketball and what we can do as option traders to be more successful long term.

0:58.6

So we'll get into that here in a little bit, but I first want to tell you that today's bonus download if you are listening to the podcast is our fast track guide.

1:05.7

So I often get questions like where do I start?

1:08.1

What do I go over?

1:09.1

And so what we created is this fast track guide that you can download completely free and it basically gives you

1:15.4

eight weeks of step by step tutorials and videos and case studies and articles and podcast that you can

1:22.0

listen to to help quickly get you on board with

1:25.2

trading and get you to the next level.

1:27.0

So you can download that freebie by going to option alpha.com slash fast track.

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That's all one word option alpha.com slash fast track that's all one word option alpha

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