Category: Tutorials
The Wheel Options Strategy: Your Comprehensive Guide to Steady Income Generation
Options traders, from beginners to seasoned veterans, seek a methodical approach that delivers consistent income while managing risk. This is where the Wheel Strategy, which involves selling puts against stocks, truly shines.
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What is Expected Value and 3 ways to use it
In the realm of trading strategies, Expected Value (EV) is a statistical measure that seeks to predict the potential profitability of a particular strategy, given certain market conditions. By...
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Trading Leap options - Part 1
Options have inherited strengths compared with vanilla stock positions, and it's important to play to those strengths and try to minimize exposure to the weaknesses. This is the first part of a...
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Volatility Skew Rank - Part 1
This will be the first in a series of articles that dive into the advanced applications of implied volatility. You can read the first series of articles about IV in the implied volatility category...
Using the Stock Valuation Excel Template - Step-by-Step guide
With the addition of the Excel integration to the Samurai platform, we can now create advanced tools in Excel and increase our edge while trading. For example, we have shown in our Blog and Video...
Trading Options on Over-Extended Stocks - Webinar Recording 💻
During the Synergy Traders #39 event, we presented how you could profit from trading over-extended stocks with options. We showed example trades, backtests and showed how you could use Samurai to...
Stock Valuation Model (+Automatic excel import of stock data)
What is Stock Valuation?
Stock valuation is the process of estimating the intrinsic value of a stock.
The stock valuation model is a simple model that helps you determine a company's intrinsic...
How to Import Options Data to Excel and Google Sheets (Including Templates)
Most traders have spreadsheets they enter data in. This helps them analyze data and improve their workflow. However, importing data to the spreadsheet is a chore, and it wastes time. This problem...
Excel template: Good covered calls trades on Dividend Aristocrats
We've recently launched our new Excel and Google Sheet integration with Option Samurai. It allows you to import options data directly from our options scanner to Excel and Google Sheets. This...
Tip: Use Scans as Part of Your Investment Process
This article will be a short technical how-to article to help you create scans for your investing process. We use it personally to quickly access our scans in our daily routines, save time, and...