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MASTER THREAD on Short Strangles.

Curated the best tweets from the best traders who are exceptional at managing strangles.

• Positional Strangles
• Intraday Strangles
• Position Sizing
• How to do Adjustments
• Plenty of Examples
• When to avoid
• Exit Criteria

 How to sell Strangles in weekly expiry as explained by boss himself. @Mitesh_Engr

• When to sell
• How to do Adjustments
• Exit Criteria

https://t.co/GDfT49AldT
Beautiful explanation on positional option selling by @Mitesh_Engr
Sir on how to sell low premium strangles yourself without paying anyone. This is a free mini course in itself.

https://t.co/QzenFVTAsy
1st Live example of managing a strangle by Mitesh Sir. @Mitesh_Engr

• Sold Strangles 20% cap used
• Added 20% cap more when in profit
• Booked profitable leg and rolled up
• Kept rolling up profitable leg
• Booked loss in calls
• Sold only puts

https://t.co/NVGsIbSwmD
2nd example by @Mitesh_Engr Sir on converting a directional trade into strangles. Option Sellers can use this for consistent profit.

• Identified a reversal and sold puts

• Puts decayed a lot

• When achieved 2% profit through puts then sold calls

https://t.co/80egDSOz1O
What to do when premiums are low? By @Mitesh_Engr

• Avoid Strangle Selling
• Wait patiently for rejection candle
• Bet heavy with a small stop loss
• Great Risk/Reward

I saw him do this live on one expiry I distinctly remember, he made good profit.

https://t.co/e1qTcAvvwi
Ideal position sizing to play strangles aggressively by @Mitesh_Engr

Observe the quantity he is selling on a 20 lakh account,15 lots on 20 lakhs.

• Sold straddles aggressively
• Exited with 1% profit in a day
• Sold bullish strangles to extract more

https://t.co/kgIqEUP8ML
What @_GauravVashisth looks for before selling strangles.

• Check 1 hour charts
• If in consolidation sells strangles
• If there's a breakout of a level sells directionally

https://t.co/VVID7zHXau

https://t.co/TZnoYSzUGi
According to @_GauravVashisth strangles shouldn't be sold when

• Market closes at day high/low
• Probability of a big move is higher
• Probability of a severe gap up/gap down is higher

You can check my thread out on @_GauravVashisth logics here 👇

https://t.co/H8mvy1ajdo
This is a very nice thread by @Pathik_Trader Sir where he says Strangles are better than Straddles. Also covers:

• Ideal Position Sizing
• How to diversify
• How to not be affected by a black swan

https://t.co/RYE9w9QxRF
How @Pathik_Trader Sir keeps a stop loss in strangles?

• Premium recieved + 10% is SL.
• No need of adjustments

https://t.co/ZtntnE2FJE
Multiple Examples of how @Pathik_Trader managed his strangles in multiple stocks.

• Sold Naked Puts
• When market reversed sold calls
• Rolled down calls to extract more
• Markets again reversed
• Shifted calls further otm
• Rolled up Puts

https://t.co/gjTBn1kfQV
Best tweets of @sourabhsiso19 I researched on strangles. Go through all these links shared below. 👇

https://t.co/RTMei6gu5E

https://t.co/jWPzHs7CXd

https://t.co/cLpkhuIIrw
Intraday Bank Nifty Strangle Strategy by @jigspatel1988

• Sell highest OI calls and puts
• Have a combined SL
• Your stop loss is VWAP
• Keep trailing

https://t.co/KB7DwdQiiZ
Researched thoroughly for the best tweets out there by all these amazing traders.

Put these efforts of sharing by them to good use and start practicing yourselves.

With practice you'll be amazing at this too. 😃✌️

Will keep adding more tweets to this topic.

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A THREAD on . . . .

How @ITRADE191 selects strikes to trade in and how he follows risk management.

Short thread explained via pictures with the help of @niki_poojary.

1. At the start of the week

i.e. on Friday and Monday, DJ Sir prefers to sell OTM options of 50 rs premium in Nifty.

- ATM options won't decay a lot at the beginning
- With this premium reward is good
- Since these strikes are 4-5 strikes away they are relatively safer


2. On Tue/Wed/Fri

He prefers to trade in ATM or near OTM options.

- ATM options have the highest theta decay
- Since there are only 2-3 days to expiry options sellers by default have a higher probability of winning
- Huge reward if market stays flat


3. Directional/Trending days

- Capture huge profit via ATM option selling
- Futures only where he has good conviction
- Even if doesn't trend much decay will be huge
- Only on days Tuesday to Thursday


4. Which series to trade options in?

- INTRADAY trades option selling is ONLY in weekly expiry
- Option buying for hedging is done MAJORLY in next week/monthly expiry
- This way we have time to adjust
- Theta decay slower than weekly
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Aditya Todmal
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A THREAD:

7 FREE OPTION TRADING COURSES FOR BEGINNERS.

Been getting lot of dm's from people telling me they want to learn option trading and need some recommendations.

Here I'm listing the resources every beginner should go through to shorten their learning curve.

(1/10)

1st Course - TASTYTRADE

This channel on YouTube is a goldmine for people wanting to learn about options both basics and advanced. By far the best and the most popular channel out there amongst option traders.

2nd Course - OPTION ALPHA

This channel is also pretty well known amongst option traders and they have laid out the path to generate consistent income trading options.

3rd Course - PROJECT OPTION

Lengthy videos explaining the benefit of trading options and has gone through

4th Course - TASTYTRADE

Another crash course on options by tastytrade. Different strategies have been compared while some focus on trade management is also
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Aditya Todmal
Aditya Todmal
@AdityaTodmal
TradingView isn't just charts

It's much more powerful than you think

9 things TradingView can do, you'll wish you knew yesterday: 🧵

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

1/ Free Multi Timeframe Analysis

Step 1. Download Vivaldi Browser

Step 2. Login to trading view

Step 3. Open bank nifty chart in 4 separate windows

Step 4. Click on the first tab and shift + click by mouse on the last tab.

Step 5. Select "Tile all 4 tabs"


What happens is you get 4 charts joint on one screen.

Refer to the attached picture.

The best part about this is this is absolutely free to do.

Also, do note:

I do not have the paid version of trading view.


2/ Free Multiple Watchlists

Go through this informative thread where @sarosijghosh teaches you how to create multiple free watchlists in the free


3/ Free Segregation into different headers/sectors

You can create multiple sections sector-wise for free.

1. Long tap on any index/stock and click on "Add section above."
2. Secgregate the stocks/indices based on where they belong.

Kinda like how I did in the picture below.
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Aditya Todmal
Aditya Todmal
@AdityaTodmal
One of the best tools for Options Traders is @iChartsIndia

9 things Icharts can do, you'll wish you knew yesterday:

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

🧵

By the end of this thread, you'll learn 7 features with uses:

1. Option Chain (Advanced) features
2. Total PE - CE OI
3. Options Intraday OI Breakup
4. Cumulative OI change
5. Backtesting historical Data
6. Data in different intervals
7. Straddle/Strangle Charts

Let's go ↓

1. Option Chain (Advanced):

Uses:

• Understand the options chain better
• Know the correct market direction and
• Sell the right options with a higher probability of success.

Open Option Chain on Icharts and then click on:

• Trend
• Buildup
• Vwap

Like this:


2. Total PE - CE OI

Most popular and powerful feature, even used by experts like @nitinmurarkasmc heavily.

Observe the intraday Change in OI difference and align your trades with where writing is happening.

Can check it only for nearer strikes, or all strikes.

Here's how:


3. Option OI stats

Shows you Total OI and Change in OI in bar chart format.

Can segregate from Near Atm strikes to all strikes.

Historical Data of past expiries is also available to make backtesting easier.
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Aditya Todmal
Aditya Todmal
@AdityaTodmal
Short Straddle is the highest payoff strategy in Option Selling.

However, it comes with huge risks as well.

You become good at managing Straddles with adjustments.

Here's a step-by-step breakdown on them:

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

🧵

1/ Longer-term short straddle:

If you're a fan of very big ranges for your trades, you'll get the biggest one in long-term options.

Long Term can be 3 months, 6 months, or a year away as well.

The only drawback with longer-term straddles is the slippage.

Example:


In the above example, in the March expiry, we have collected 1500 points in the 18000 Nifty Straddle.

This is actually low risk compared to the monthly or weekly Straddles.

Beginners:

Can try their hands at long-term options.

You'll get sufficient time to adjust and learn.

2/ Weekly expiries will have a very short range:

Higher risk.

Frequent adjustments.

Below is an example of a weekly Straddle in Bank Nifty.

Premium Collected: 700 points

Bank Nifty at times, moves more than this in a day.


Due to these small ranges, people prefer to do weekly Iron Fly instead of Straddles.

This takes care of the undefined risk in a small range in Straddles.

Also requires very slow and easier adjustments.
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If you use it right, Iron Fly is the most solid risk-defined strategy in trading.

But most people don't know how to adjust the strategy when it goes wrong.

Here are 7 adjustments you can do to lower risk and increase profitability: 🧵

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

0/ Who is this for?

This will greatly benefit people who freeze when it comes to managing their trades and keep booking losses.

Some trade with too much fear as well when things go wrong.

Knowing these adjustments will give you the confidence to try to manage your trades.

Most of them are to lower risk on the side the market is going in.

Some adjustments even increase the profit potential and probabilities of the trade being in profit on expiry.

Let's begin by having a look at the adjustments.

Here is the adjustment number 1 below.

1/ Don't do anything till your breakeven arrives

One reason these strategies go wrong far too quickly is due to adjusting them too frequently.

You can escape most adjustments if you simply wait for the market to arrive at your breakeven.

This will work well in monthly options.

2/ Remove Risk from Untested Side

If you've taken an iron fly and the market has gone up you can shift your put buy upwards and lock the downside risk to potentially zero.

This way you've secured one side and just need to manage the bleeding side.
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Sarang Sood
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@SarangSood
A THREAD

Topic: HOW TO TRADE IN RISING PREMIUMS SCENARIO

Option sellers specially Straddle sellers feel that rising premiums give them excellent opportunity to make easy money. So what they are seeing is the theta aspect of options & ignoring the delta/gamma/vega forces.

1/

With rising premiums come high delta moves. There is a reason why premiums are all increasing up in the first place. High uncertainty & fear is what's controlling the markets during such times. So a volatile 200 point move in nifty is always on the cards.

2/

Adjusting during such delta moves involves high slippages. Such costs go in our system & are irrecoverable. So if the ATM straddle is around 400 & after 200 point downmove, the next straddle is at 450 & the loss is not just 50points but compounded much more.

3/

Also there are chances that there is no decay throughout the day. So a straddle seller has to take that heavy risk of carrying it forward & chances of gap openings are high during such times. If converted into Ironfly, then the cost of the wings is too expensive.

4/

Thus cutting down the initial credit significantly.

There will also be very few instances when premiums don't fall till expiry day. So with each delta move the cost of holding a straddle gets accumulated & pressure keeps mounting for the stubborn option sellers.

5/
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As committed here goes the 2nd "Inside Candle" strategy:-

Queries can be posted on comments, video will take some time to come.

Want market influence to circulate it to reach max audiences.

@DillikiBiili @AnilSinghvi_ @anilbalaji11 @bankniftydoctor @brahmesh https://t.co/SmCZMMkBzV


Inside Candle Trading statergy

*15mints min time frame & more
*whenever you see 2nd(baby)candle
is forming inside of 1st(mother)candle
draw high and low of 1st(mother)candle and
take entry which side 3rd candle breaks
*stop loss - 1.someone can put sl at baby candle low

2.someone can put sl at mother candle low(both works)
*entry - 3rd candle breaking mother candle
*target - 1x2x3x of your risk

#candles could be any colour
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Nikita Poojary
Nikita Poojary
@niki_poojary
Undisputed champion 🏆 in option selling and undoubtedly India's best trader @Mitesh_Engr Sir

Lessons on how to trade in such difficult times from the Indian Options Conclave 3.0 by Jainam Broking Ltd

Time for a🧵

Collaborated with @AdityaTodmal

How to trade in options during high volatility i.e. India vix>22-23 ?

In the current scenario, option sellers who are deploying strangles are unable to make money

E.g.: If a trader is selling a strangle of Rs. 100 each leg then during a fast momentum on either side, one leg becomes 80 & the other one Rs. 200
So overall, the strangle seller is at a loss

Strangles & Straddles are easy to manage in low vix

During high vix, find reversals

Mitesh Sir follows 3min TF in Bank nifty futures chart

Specimen:


In a down trending market people are tempted to sell CE & avoid selling PE's, however it would be disastrous to hold those CE's till expiry

Trailing is the answer during high VIX, as the momentum is faster on both sides

Check past few days charts on 3min TF for more clarity
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Aditya Todmal
Aditya Todmal
@AdityaTodmal
Technical Analysis and 3 Strategies to deploy for Aggressive, Moderate, and Conservative Traders.

🧵Weekly Bank Nifty Analysis for 6th Jan Expiry:


To form a view, let's have a look at:

1. Multi-timeframe Technical Analysis
2. Option Chain Data

Also, 3 strategies to deploy for:
1. Aggressive Traders (1.85%)
2. Moderate Risk Traders (1.2%)
3. Low-Risk Traders (0.75%)


1. Technicals

Let's start with technicals. We'll look at:

• Weekly charts
• Daily charts.
• Hourly / 60 min charts.
• 15 min charts.


1. Weekly-

• The past 2 weeks indicate that buyers have entered and are trying to lift the market up.

• 34000 was a strong support earlier too, this should hold for this week at least.


2. Daily:

• If we open flat or gap up on Monday I am expecting this to play out.
(See picture)

• If gap down happens, then the traders who are long would be in a slight panic and we need to observe the price action again after a couple of days for a broader view.
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