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The Option Alpha Podcast

48: Options Approval Levels Tips - How to Quickly Work Your Way Up The 4 Different Levels

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show48 Options approval levels are options trading restrictions placed on your brokerage account to prevent or allow you from entering different options strategies. Most new traders, and admittedly some experienced traders, often don’t know which trading level they are in or even that levels exist. Still, you should always reach out to your current broker and check with them directly to be sure. While trading approval levels and names can vary from bro...

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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 make

0:06.3

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

0:11.2

income. Now your host and head trader at option alpha.com, Kirk depluses.

0:17.0

Hey everyone, this is Kirkier again at option alpha.com working every single week to make this the most

0:23.9

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

0:28.4

thing and one thing only and that's helping you make smarter trades. So thanks so much again for tuning in today and we've got a really cool episode today talking about

0:36.4

options trading approval levels and broker approval levels.

0:40.3

It's actually a big topic that we haven't really covered, My bad, but I get a lot of questions about it.

0:45.0

Now we're starting to dig in here a little bit deeper.

0:48.0

And we've got a really cool episode, kind of trying to give you some tips on how to get a higher trading approval level, maybe if you've been denied

0:55.0

before, and just generally understanding what all of these approval levels mean.

1:00.4

So we're going to dig deep into that today in this podcast episode.

1:03.4

As always, after listening to the show, if you have any success or have had success in the past,

1:09.4

please post a comment to the show notes page.

1:11.2

Head on over to option alpha.com

1:13.4

slash show 48 that's just the number 48 option alpha dot com slash show 48 and

1:18.7

share with everyone what you're you know figuring out and learning I think this is a great resource and could be a great

1:24.9

resource for people in the future. So even if you've listened to the show, you're listening

1:29.6

show right now when it comes out or maybe a couple months down the line,

1:32.9

check out that page because I'm sure there's

1:34.4

going to be comments coming in from people who

1:36.7

have maybe used a different tactic than we talk about here

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