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There are some great trading blogs out there these days and the number of bloggers seems to be rapidly expanding. There are a few bloggers who I read on a regular basis. These guys are the crème de le crème of option bloggers who provide great market analysis, trade ideas and educational posts. I wanted to put together this list of the Top 10 Option Trading Bloggers as a resource for other traders to use. Some of these you may have heard of, some may be new to you. I’ve created the list based on a variety of factors including how helpful I find their blogs and their overall popularity. Check them out and let me know if you think I’ve missed anyone. Most of these guys are on Twitter and I’ve set up a list where you can follow them.
1 – Option Pit – Mark Sebastien.
Option Pit is run by Mark Sebastian, a former market maker on both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. Option Pit is a fantastic resource for option traders and blog topics focus a lot on implied volatility, so you can understand why I like it. One of the great things about Option Pit is there is new content pretty much every day and it is ALL high quality stuff. Mark is also a regular on CNBC. I visit this site every day.
2 – Options Hawk – Joe Kunkle.
Options Hawk is another options trading site that has a large focus on trading implied volatility. Joe Kunkle is the man behind the Options Hawk brand and while he doesn’t post on his blog as regularly as some others in this list, when he does post it is all super informative stuff with lots of actionable trade ideas. He is very responsive if you have questions, but don’t take that as a license to bombard him with questions.
3 – Sheridan Option Mentoring – Dan Sheridan.
Dan Sheridan is the Godfather of options education and has been in the business longer than pretty much everyone. Really knows his stuff and provides great free content on his blog. There are also lots of his videos on the CBOE website, if you have time to check those out, you won’t regret it.
4 – The Lazy Trader – Lazy Trader.
The Lazy Trader is a super nice guy. His blog is filled with trading related tips on subjects like psychology, money management and risk management. He also posts his trades on the site and gives an update on how they are performing each weekend. He focuses mostly on credit spreads and iron condors but also has lots of information on other strategies. I did a guest post for the Lazy Trader once which you can check out here.
5 – Option Alpha – Kirk Du Plessis.
Kirk from Option Alpha is the go to guy for beginners wanting to learn options trading. His blog archive and resource section are extensive and filled with interesting tidbits. He trades purely credit spreads, iron condors and naked puts and calls.
6 – Steady Options – Kim Klaiman.
Steady Options, run by Kim Klaiman with contributions from Mark Wolfinger is a great site to visit every week or so. Great articles on must read topics.
7 – Investing With Options – Steven Place.
Another good website to visit on a weekly basis. Investing With Options founder Steven Place is a great teacher about to bring complex topics into an easy to understand format. Blog posts are informative and are great for intermediate traders or beginners looking to expand on their current knowledge base.
8 – VIX and More – Bill Luby.
While technically not a pure options trading blog, VIX and More is the number one resource on all things volatility. Any option trader worth his salt needs to have a solid understanding of volatility . I’ve learned a great deal from the posts I’ve read so far and can’t wait to dive into the rest of them!
9 – The Blue Collar Investor – Alan Ellman.
Alan Ellman from The Blue Collar Investor is probably the foremost expert on covered calls. He’s authored 5 books that have great reviews on Amazon. Allan is very popular with risk averse investors who are looking at options as a way to generate a steady, low risk income. No crazy high-flying trades here, just solid advice for long term investors.
10 – Sassy Options – Rachel Shasha.
Rachel from Sassy options provides excellent market commentary and trading ideas, definitely worth a read each week.
So those are my Top 10 Option Trading Blogs, I’m sure this will create quite a bit of controversy similar to my Top 25 Traders on Twitter post. Feel free to let me know in the comments section if you think I missed anyone.
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A couple of other good ones are:
But unfortunately I already went over my limit of 10. 🙁
Let me add this one.
It is my daily most every single day just to read his thoughts on the current market conditions. It is only that one article a day, but the guy is really good at summarizing all that is going on around the world and he always calls it like he feels it is, either Bullish, Bearish or Neutral, without sugar coding or hedging his language. Very smart trader and brave blogger.
That is a good one, thanks Lazy Trader. I didn’t realize he posted every day.
Awesome, thanks for those!
No worries Alan, hope it helps you.
Very insightful. When writing content we need to think about what others will like to read. Nice to see a new option trading tipping site thats up to date, keep the tips coming :). I have subscribed via , so ill be back.
Great, glad to hear it!
Excellent list, thank you.
Would like to suggest my blog for your review as well – OptionTiger.
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Remember not to force your hand and if the day starts off bad, shut down the trading for the day. It is when you keep on trying that you loose. Accept that the market is not right for that day.
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I keep going to these websites, blogs and services and I get get anyone to explain how credit spread trading can be profitable given highly negatively skewed risk reward of most trades (especially at higher probability strikes) without pristine trade selection and highly astute adjustments.
Great list. Though I can’t check everyone but will check options hawk and option pit as you listed it on top.
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Posted By Andrew Giovinazzi Mon, 12/18/2017 - 6:10pm.
At this point there seems to be a lot of ink devoted to Bitcoin. The 1000% gain this year, the catastrophic drop it might have and last but not least the Bitcoin futures traded on the CBOE and CME. The last point is really what I want to discuss because we most likely would not have had a financial crisis in 2008 if the OTC derivative market in Sub Prime mortgages was exchange cleared. Somewhere along the line margin requirement would have gone way, way up which would have started to cool things.
Right now if someone wants a Bitcoin they can mine it, buy it on the many secondary exchanges or buy a future. The 1 st one requires computing power and the other two just need cash. A lot of cash at the just under $19,000 last. The trouble will come when and if the product gets highly margined. The Financial Crisis had a lot of banks leveraging a balance sheet to buy AAA rated securities that were somewhat less than that. The not knowing what anything was worse which made a bad situation worse back then. We have not seen the next iteration of Bitcoin leverage but don’t underestimate the creativity of Wall Street if they can make a buck or two. Should we short swaps on funds that invest in XBT? Let the games begin.
Right now the mostly cash nature of Bitcoin is not a problem, systemically, but if we start to see leveraged products coming, things could get a little wild. The listing of futures has put a slight damper on the volatility of BTC, but only slight. I would expect to see options on futures in Q2 2018. 100% realized vol on a $19,000 should be exciting enough.
Disclosure: sadly no BTC.
Morning Vol Report 12.18.2017 Mkt thinks Tax Reform is done.
Posted By Andrew Giovinazzi Mon, 12/18/2017 - 9:19am.
Option Pit Idea of the Week: DIS.
Posted By Mark Sebastian Fri, 12/15/2017 - 11:08am.
Morning Vol Report 12.15.2017 Off to the Races.
Posted By Andrew Giovinazzi Fri, 12/15/2017 - 9:44am.
Option Pit Vol Report 12-14-17.
Posted By Mark Sebastian Thu, 12/14/2017 - 10:14am.
Morning Vol Report 12.13.2017 All eyes on the Fed.
Posted By Andrew Giovinazzi Wed, 12/13/2017 - 9:25am.
Fed still matters.
Posted By Andrew Giovinazzi Tue, 12/12/2017 - 3:55pm.
The Fed should give us more clarity on rates and their balance sheet tomorrow as Janet Yellen winds down her successful Fed tenure. On balance she did a good job walking the USA out of multiple rounds of liquidity jumps with rates somehow low and stocks at all-time highs. A neat trick for sure and it is hard to imagine anyone doing better with most economic cylinders firing away right now.
Yet find ourselves with the distracting close of VIX up and SPX up. It is hard for VIX to get much lower than the 9.34 close of yesterday so a little bounce was inevitable. Right now relatively speaking the VIX futures look a tad expensive to cash and the only reason I can think of is the rate rise is still keeping traders slightly on edge. Will Yellen push the asset unwind into a higher gear than the market expected? I guess we will have to wait.
It has been a while since we have had fuller future premium in the VIX since most of this cycle has produced cheaper VIX futures due to seasonality. A slight run up in VIX into the Fed announcement is very possible but any real trading on a move most likely will be after the announcement. Will they crush the VIX again after so many crushes in the past?
Long cheaper VXX calls or puts in this week’s cycle could work but the premium risk is high. Any vol trend into the close tomorrow should hold up through the week.
Disclosure VIX and SPX positions in Karman Line Capital, LLC.
Morning Vol Report 12.12.2017 DIS and FOXA dance, VIX future premo is fat.
Posted By Andrew Giovinazzi Tue, 12/12/2017 - 9:18am.
A 9.29 VIX and vol should be cheap everywhere.
Posted By Andrew Giovinazzi Mon, 12/11/2017 - 3:49pm.
9.29 VIX and it feels like we are putting the holiday in to the SPX IV already. 9 VIX does put me into a bit of a buying mode so I started going through my list of names that should be at lower IVs over the next 90 days. And low and behold I did not find what I thought I would find.
TWTR IV got cheap again in the near term so I bought some. I would prefer to go to the Mar cycle but I want it cheaper. The bigger surprise was a name like INTC. I thought for sure it would be at the bottom of the range but it is trading at a level closer to where it had been after the election. INTC rallied into the higher IV last year. I think it might do it again.
There is some Bank and Tech IV higher in the mid-range cycles. We have had a run up AND the jump in IV could be that both sides of a move are in play. I think IV tends to rally when a big up move or down move gets more evident and that is where the market finds itself. The rally no one saw coming is not over yet.
I like the longer term calls in INTC but they are not as cheap as I would want them so need to finance. An INTC strangle and short vol pair could work. We will cover this as a subject in Part 4 of VIX made Easy which starts on Thursday.
Disclosure: Postions in TWTR, INTC, VIX, SPX.
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Submitted by Andrew Giovinazzi on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 6:10pm.
At this point there seems to be a lot of ink devoted to Bitcoin. The 1000% gain this year, the catastrophic drop it might have and last but not least the Bitcoin futures traded on the CBOE and CME. The last point is really what I want to discuss because we most likely would not have had a financial crisis in 2008 if the OTC derivative market in Sub Prime mortgages was exchange cleared. Somewhere along the line margin requirement would have gone way, way up which would have started to cool things.
Morning Vol Report 12.18.2017 Mkt thinks Tax Reform is done.
Submitted by Andrew Giovinazzi on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 9:19am.
Option Pit Idea of the Week: DIS.
Submitted by Mark Sebastian on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 11:08am.
Morning Vol Report 12.15.2017 Off to the Races.
Submitted by Andrew Giovinazzi on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 9:44am.
Option Pit Vol Report 12-14-17.
Submitted by Mark Sebastian on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 10:14am.
Morning Vol Report 12.13.2017 All eyes on the Fed.
Submitted by Andrew Giovinazzi on Wed, 12/13/2017 - 9:25am.
Fed still matters.
Submitted by Andrew Giovinazzi on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 3:55pm.
Morning Vol Report 12.12.2017 DIS and FOXA dance, VIX future premo is fat.
Submitted by Andrew Giovinazzi on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 9:18am.
A 9.29 VIX and vol should be cheap everywhere.
Submitted by Andrew Giovinazzi on Mon, 12/11/2017 - 3:49pm.
9.29 VIX and it feels like we are putting the holiday in to the SPX IV already. 9 VIX does put me into a bit of a buying mode so I started going through my list of names that should be at lower IVs over the next 90 days. And low and behold I did not find what I thought I would find.
Option Pit Vol Report 12-11-17.
Submitted by Mark Sebastian on Mon, 12/11/2017 - 9:11am.

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