what is the safest strategy in option trading to earn a 4% profit monthly?

Agenda

Let’s keep it simple, in market there are people who want quick buck and some who would need monthly stable income.

A lot of my friends ask me as to what is the safest strategy in option trading to earn a 4% profit monthly?

I ask them normally what they mean by safest strategy

a) the strategy has a high win probability

b) the strategy is not open to unlimited loss

Now let’s go into details of strategy planning.

It can be called “Max pain iron butterfly plus iron condor strategy” Or simply ” Max iron” ( my own name) in simple terms.

  1. Now we know only option sellers make money consistently and buyers only few big wins. That
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Debit Spreads vs Credit Spread ? Which is best and when ?

Main topics covered today will be

Advantages of debit spread vs credit spread
Advantages of credit spread vs debit spread
Why prefer debit vs credit spread
To know credit vs debit spread-which is better
Who uses credit vs debit spreads
Summary of key points to remember in credit vs debit spread
Debit Spreads vs Credit Spread ? Which is best and when ?
When you are trying to get a answer for whether to go for Debit Spread vs Credit Spread in vertical spreads. What factors should you consider when deciding whether to trade debit or credit spreads, and when should you utilise either one?

 

What are the different types of vertical spread options?

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Why do options buyers fail? Why naked buying is so hard?

Why do options buyers fail? Why naked buying is so hard?

 

Main villain for option buying / buyers is theta/time decay. It is much higher on weekly options compared to monthly Options. Even on weekly options it’s higher towards weekend/ Thursday comes closer that is expiry.

 

How to overcome the hurdles for naked Option buying?

Option strategies are best for reducing the affect of theta / time decay. Here you buy one option at a strike price and sell another at another strike price. Here greeks cancel each other.

So effectively it is defined by fixed profit vs fixed loss mostly by vertical spreads available. There are some strategies with unlimited profits or losses but they are used … Read the rest

Adx di indicator for catching the momentum

Adx directional index indicator for catching the momentum

So most trading platforms actually have two different versions of the ADX indicator, which is where many people get confused when adding it to their charts. The first version of this indicator only has only one line on it, which is the ADX line itself. This version of the indicator can usually be found by simply clicking on “add indicator” and then searching for ADX.

The second version of this indicator has 3 lines, which are the ADX line, the Positive Directional Indicator (which can be abbreviated to +DI), and the Negative Directional Indicator (which can be abbreviated to -DI). Now to get this version of the indicator on your charts, you … Read the rest

What is Options Max pain Strategy? How does it work?

What is Options Max pain Strategy?

What is Option Max Pain?

It is always seen that 90%+ options expire out of the money. Since most options buyers lose money in options trading, the price of the underlying stock somehow must be adjusted / manipulated to close in a way that benefits option writers at the time of options expiry. This is basis for Option max pain point where the loss incurred by options buyers is also termed as “Options Pain”.

How does Options Max Pain work?

On option expiration day, the underlying stock price often moves toward a point that brings maximum loss to option buyers. This is how the Option Max Pain work.

Options Traders can utilize this concept … Read the rest

Open Interest vs Trading Volume in Options trading- Very important

Open Interest

If a buyer and seller come together and initiate a new position of one contract, then open interest will increase by one contract. Should a buyer and seller both exit a one contract position on a trade, then open interest decreases by one contract. However, if a buyer or seller passes off their current position to a new buyer or seller, then open interest remains unchanged.

Open interest is just the contracts that are created(buy of 1 lot and sell of 1 lot will give 1 Open interest) are created. If an options contract exists, it must have had a buyer and also for every buyer, there must be a seller since you cannot buy something that is … Read the rest

BankNifty weightage cpr strategy

BankNifty weightage cpr strategy

The NIFTY Bank Index includes the most liquid and significant banking firms in India. It serves as a benchmark for investors and market intermediaries, capturing the capital market performance of Indian banks. The Index includes a maximum of 12 companies that are publicly traded on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE).
The free float market capitalization approach is used to calculate the NIFTY Bank or BankNifty Index.

As on December 31, 2021 Constituents and Weightage

         Company’s Name                               Weight(%) 

  1. HDFC Bank Ltd.                                           27.80
  2. ICICI Bank Ltd.                                           22.62
  3. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.                         11.61
  4. Axis Bank Ltd.                                              11.52
  5. State Bank of India                                      11.45
  6. IndusInd Bank Ltd.                                      5.91

Above six stocks are the main CONSTIUENTS of banknifty Total weightage … Read the rest

Options Greeks and its impact on options

What are Options Greeks? how to use them for your favor?

The majority of the time, Options Greeks are turned down owing to their complex mathematical calculations and inability to comprehend them. 
Instead of attempting to calculate the values of such Options Greeks, let us attempt to define them and at the very least determine their utility in our daily option trading.
It would be impossible to compute each and every Option Greek of our position unless one were mathematician. 
There is, however, simple solution because there are various systems available today that assist us with Options Greeks of our overall options positions.

 

Why should you consider Options Greeks? 

Because they provide insight into the various options 
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OTM Option vertical spread – defined risk and stable profit

What is happening in the markets?

Normally, after a large trend has passed, there is a period of pullback or just plain old consolidation.

What happening in market nowadays is that Nifty has cooled off from 18,400 in recent months.

However, the last few weeks have been unusual in that the Nifty has been moving in large fluctuations, attempting to recover and get back on track before giving up.

Consolidations, particularly choppy ones like the ones we’ve been seeing for the past three weeks, can produce misleading signals. Vertical spreads, on the other hand, could come in handy with Out of The Money (OTM) options.

On a daily basis, the movements have also been relatively large. However, if we look … Read the rest

Checklist for Option trading for Nifty BankNifty

Checklist for Option trading for Nifty BankNifty

1.Check Sensibull for Option chain data for major Resistance and Support

Below you can see more big red bars compared to green bars. The red bars on Call side(left side) are various resistances formed. From sellers perspective Calls selling has more OI which means Sellers are betting than index is not going up tomorrow beyond these resistances which are 17100,17200,17300 and 17500. They are also strong on markets not falling beyond 16500 support.

https://web.sensibull.com/option-chain/?expiry=2021-12-30&tradingsymbol=NIFTY

Checklist for Option trading for Nifty BankNifty 6

 

 

2. Check for Option chain data on NSE Site for PCR Ratio

https://www.nseindia.com/option-chain

Check PCR Ratio in Nifty option chain on weekly expiry

Checklist for Option trading for Nifty BankNifty 5

 

Checklist for Option trading for Nifty BankNifty 4

In above pcr ratio is 12,79,526/14,70,186= 0.87 which is below 1 slightly which … Read the rest