63: Track Option Strategy Performance With These 27 Indexes From The CBOE

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

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

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🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show63 A little over a year ago now the CBOE released its first round of options-based strategy performance benchmark indexes. Since, they’ve slowly increased the number of trackable option strategies on their website. Each strategy index is "designed to highlight the long-term utility of options as risk management and yield enhancing investment tools” and really helps bring some context to options trading for the little guys like you and me. In today’s show...

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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 Kirk here again at option alpha.com working every single week to make this the most popular investing podcast offered online because it's based on one thing and one thing only and that's helping you make smarter trades.
0:32.5	So again, thank you so much for tuning in today and we've got a cool episode today talking a little
0:37.7	bit more about these 27 different strategy indexes that have been released out of the CBOE and this is
0:45.1	actually something I've been wanting to talk about for a long time just waiting for the
0:48.5	right time to kind of bring this up and the right like show and and process and
0:52.0	everything but I think what the CBOE is doing here is
0:54.7	definitely something that's kind of like leading this new like wave of
0:59.0	options trading which is really putting some numbers and some back testing to work and trying to
1:04.7	figure out like what actually works right what strategies work how does the
1:09.2	performance stack up and so they've done a really good job in laying out these different benchmark
1:16.3	indexes for all these different strategies and we'll link up to everything in the
1:19.8	show notes page along with some content and some charts and stuff like that as far as
1:23.4	performance that we're going to go over here in the show. Again everything is going to
1:26.7	be an option alpha.com slash show 63 again that's just the number 63 option alpha
1:31.5	com slash show 63 now before we get into today number 63.
1:33.7	Now before we get into today's show because I don't want to go over all 27 of these benchmark
1:38.3	indexes that would take a long time but there are a couple that I would like to go over and kind of a select fashion and cover these in particular because I think they're interesting for a couple different reasons and kind of prove some points that maybe will be helpful to you in your trading.
1:53.0	But before I do go over that, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that at the time that this
1:58.0	podcast goes live, which is basically like the last week of September,
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