Tasty Options Strategies For 2025

Money Tree Investing

Money Tree Investing Podcast

Stockmarket, Valuestocks, Investing, Finance, Passiveincome, Wealth, Business, Personalfinance

4.6 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

JJ Kinahan, CEO of TastyTrade shares some tasty option strategies for 2025. JJ shares his journey from floor trader at the CBOE to CEO of TastyTrade under IG North America. He discusses the evolution of the brokerage industry—from the days of shouting in trading pits to today’s retail-driven, commission-free environment—and how access to education has empowered individual investors. JJ emphasizes the importance of starting small, defining risk, and learning gradually when trading. We also talk why certain option types are miscategorized as “risky,” the influence of retail investors since the meme stock era, and how futures trading offers hedging and round-the-clock opportunities.

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JJ Kinahan discusses his journey from being a floor trader on the CBOE to leading roles at ThinkorSwim and TD Ameritrade, and now serving as CEO of TastyTrade under IG North America.
The real differentiator for traders now is education, not access, and that platforms like TastyTrade prioritize teaching users how markets actually work.
The conversation highlights how TastyTrade continues that mission by combining content, community, and trading functionality in one ecosystem.
JJ stresses the importance of understanding “defined risk” in options trading—knowing exactly how much you can lose before entering a trade.
Calendar spreads can help traders take advantage of time decay and volatility differences between expiration cycles.
JJ notes that the “meme stock” era of 2020–2021 changed market dynamics by bringing millions of new retail participants into the market.
JJ warns that while accessibility is great, it can lead to overconfidence, so risk control and continuous learning are critical.
JJ shares insights on how professional traders manage emotions and avoid letting losses dictate decision-making.
Traders who survive long-term tend to manage downside risk far better than they chase upside potential.
The conversation explores how automation and data analytics have reshaped trading, but that human intuition still matters in volatile environments.
Building good habits—like journaling trades, reviewing setups, and setting stop levels—is key to developing consistency.
He encourages investors to find strategies that fit their personality, risk tolerance, and time commitment rather than copying others.
JJ leaves listeners with a simple message: focus on learning, define your risk, and don’t let one trade define your trading journey.

Today's Panelists:

Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
Douglas Heagren | Mergent College Advisors

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life.
0:11.0	Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners. Welcome to this week show. My name's Kirk Chisholm. I'll be your host.
0:15.6	And today I'm joined with JJ Kinhan. How you doing to JJ? I'm great. Kirk, how are you doing,
0:20.4	it's exciting to have you on.
0:22.5	A lot to talk about today. So for those of you don't know you, tell us a bit about your background.
0:27.9	Certainly. So I started as a trader in the pitch, jumping up and down and yelling and screaming in a
0:32.9	funny colored coat 40 years ago now, 1985 at the CE, did that for 21 years, then went to a firm
0:39.8	called Thinkerswim. You know, back in 2006, ran all the education. We were bought by
0:45.7	TD Ameritrade. At TD Ameritrade, I held every position you could pretty much hold in the trading
0:51.5	world in terms of running platforms, running an advisory
0:54.7	service, you know, running the education. We started the network. And then in 2022, Schwab had purchased
1:03.7	TD Ameritrade. And in 2022, I went over to Tasty Trade as the CEO for IG North America was the parent company out of the UK,
1:12.6	and I ran North America for them, which included Tasty Trade, Tasty Lives, Tasty Crypto.
1:17.6	I remember when I found out about Thinkerswim, it was right before Td acquired them, and I was
1:23.2	doing a little research, and I heard about this company company and everything they're doing was great,
1:27.9	great education, just well run, just they really understood option traders. So I opened up
1:33.2	account there, started using it. Three months later, they got acquired by TD, which is both good
1:38.1	and bad because TD actually was smart. They integrated the technology. They knew what they had.
1:42.9	I actually talked to some of the people over there. There was a small thing they were doing at Toss, which I thought was really, really cool, which is if there's five cents left in an option, you could close it out with no commission. I was like, that's great. It's the right thing to do. A lot of people want to, but they don't want to pay the money because the commission. I thought it was great. I actually begged TD to keep it, and then they did, which is kind of cool.
2:04.2	I'll take credit, even though it probably wasn't me.
2:06.1	It's something we learned as floor traders.
2:07.7	I know you talk about it in your podcast every week in different ways, and that's about risk.
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