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THREAD: 14 of the best resources/topics for anyone who wants to start option selling as a career. 🧵

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

 1. Best Sources of knowledge for a beginner in option selling?

Zerodha Varsity from @Nithin0dha's team & the @tastytrade financial network.

Links:
https://t.co/iYpilaaaoV

https://t.co/iooGW9CrCZ
2. Top YouTube Channel for Options Learning?

Power of Stocks - Subhasish Pani

What you'll learn:
1. How to form a trading plan.
2. How to scale an account with risk-reward in option selling.
3. Technical analysis logics you can use daily.

15 Learnings:
https://t.co/bv2mbiajZv
3. What are the preconditions to start option Selling:

You should know technical Analysis basics like:
- Support/Resistance
- Chart Patterns
- Candle Patterns
- Dow Theory (HH, LL)

This will help you start taking high probability trades.
4. Risk Management is a must for option selling

If you don't learn to manage your risk, making money in trading is going to be an extremely difficult endeavor

Have some rules:
1. Risk no more than 0.25% per trade as a beginner
2. Risk no more than 2% in a day for the first year
You have to decide how much you're willing to lose in a day.

Whatever the amount, divide it by 3. Just risk that amount in 3 trades in a day. Stop trading if you lose 3 times.

This prevents us from overtrading and losing more.
5. Minimum Capital requirement for option selling.

Beginners can learn and practice option selling with 5L capital.

You'll be able to trade 5 lots with this. If you're doing well can take leverage by buying options and selling more quantities.

(Only if you're doing well)
5. Safest way for beginners to start:

Target options that have over 90% probability of going to zero.

As a beginner target only 0.5% per week.

If you've been profitable for 6 months, try for targets like 0.75% to 1% a week.
6. When to follow Directional strategies and when to follow non-directional strategies?

If the market is in a range, can sell options on both sides outside the range and make a profit. (strangle)

If the market has given a breakout or breakdown then avoid non-directional trading
7. How to select the strike price for selling options.

I started selecting strikes initially which were very low premiums. But had a higher probability of going to zero.

In order to become a really good trader, you need to have "profit cushion".
Once you get the profit can sell strikes based on:

- Support/Resistance
- Premium Based Strike Price

Get a sense of when and how to do adjustments.
8. Stock Options or Index options which one is good for a beginner-level person?

I personally found trading in stocks is totally useless. Not worth the effort you put in.

Unlike an index, stocks can move > 10% and beyond in the F&O segment

Not worth the stress they cause
Beginners should concentrate on index option selling.

Find your comfort whether it's Nifty or Bank Nifty. Personally, I have seen the switch from Nifty to Bank Nifty being quite difficult for some traders.

Might as well start practicing Bank Nifty from the get-go.
9. Top 3 mistakes we made trading.

- Not building a portfolio when the market corrects 30%
- Venturing in stock options due to their luring premiums
- Intend to recover all losses from the same stock thereby ending up marrying a stock
10. What % of return one should expect on a weekly or monthly basis?

Beginners would be doing great if they just manage to even break even after their first year.

Most people are wiped out in the initial years.

Later on, one can gradually move from 2-4% per month returns.
11. How to maintain Good Risk Reward in option Selling

This is an area which we want to learn the most and focus upon in the next 2 years.

However, a simple rule to follow, if you're making 4% a month, don't lose more than 2% in any single week.
12. Is knowledge of Option Greeks is really Important?

Big no! We are aware of greeks and have spent time learning them, but they have not helped us in a single trade.

If you know your support & resistance and when to exit, then no need to know Greeks.
13. Website to analyze Option Chain Data

Although we don't give much importance to option data as it doesn't work nowadays.

Opstra & NSE websites are enough, additionally, our friends really like Icharts and trading tick.
14. How to be prepared for every week?

Learn to create a weekly trading plan. Here's a thread on creating one after analyzing @niki_poojary's account.

https://t.co/aVh21muOYi
If you found this useful, please do RT first tweet.

Follow to never miss them.

See past threads here:
@AdityaTodmal & @niki_poojary

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• Intraday Strangles
• Position Sizing
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• Plenty of Examples
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• When to sell
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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


1st Live example of managing a strangle by Mitesh Sir. @Mitesh_Engr

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• Identified a reversal and sold puts

• Puts decayed a lot

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DJ @ITRADE191 multiple chart analysis for INTRADAY TRADING.

1. Core setup
2. Pivot points trades
3. PDH/PDL trades
4. Open interest addictions combined with rejections on charts.
5. Website to confirm bias

Very quick read.

Share if you liked for the benefit of everyone.

•Main setup of @ITRADE191
He used this setup daily for all trades.

1. EMA crossover 10/20
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3. Vwap
4. RSI >


•Volume always greater than


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Curated tweets on How to Sell Straddles

Everything covered in this thread.
1. Management
2. How to initiate
3. When to exit straddles
4. Examples
5. Videos on Straddles

Share if you find this knowledgeable for the benefit of others.

1. Straddles explanation from the boss himself.
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With a return of more than 170% & an average return of 4% on expiry days.

@Ronak_Unadkat converted 2 Cr to 5.5 Cr this year.

We met him in Mumbai & watched him do expiry trading live.

14 things to learn from him for trading FinNifty (for free):

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

(1) Small Account

First of all, let me tell you, he is trading Finnifty in only his small account.

His main expertise is Bank Nifty so he is keeping his main account only for that.

After 1 year of successful Finnifty trading, he will start with his bigger account as well.

(2) What returns to target in Finnifty?

He only trades this index for three days, i.e Friday, Monday and Tuesday.

His goal is to make 1% from here and another 1% through Bank Nifty.

This gives him a 2% week if he plays this well which is his main strength.

(3) Level-Based Trading:

He is a level-based trader, and won't book losses until his level comes.

If the level does not come, he will eat all the premiums & profit.

If the level breaks, whatever loss it shows him, he will book.

(4) How does he find his levels?

He will monitor the highest high and the lowest low of the three days i.e Fri, Mon & Tue.

Those levels he is mostly interested in shorting aggressively.

If no premiums there he will come closer.
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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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1. Staying neutral all the time. Majority of the years i have been a neutral option seller. I now realise that having a little sense of direction would have given me an added advantage with better utilisation of capital & also leverage (till the time it was available).

2. Too much importance on adjustments. Initially like most of the new option sellers, i had this notion that i can perfect my adjustment skills for any market conditions. Ofcourse i was wrong. Market is supreme & we need to respect it at times.

3. Not giving importance to greeks. For initial 6 years i didn't even know the existence of greeks. Since i started using them, option selling has become rather less complicated on the contrary of what most people believe.

4. Having too much confidence on the certainty of theta decay. Enough is said about it already. Theta decay is not an edge.
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First attempt to make a video by @niki_poojary

Covered weekly analysis of Bank Nifty.

Kindly give it a watch.
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🧵*Weekly Bank Nifty Analysis for 7th Oct Expiry* 🧵

To form a view, let's have a look at both:
1. Technicals
2. Data

Also, 3 strategies to deploy for:
1. Aggressive Traders
2. Moderate Risk Traders
3. Low-Risk Traders


1. Technicals

Let's start with technicals. We'll look at -
1. Daily charts.
2. Hourly / 60 min charts.
3. 15 min charts.

Formed an indecisive candle on the daily timeframe right at support. Unless we sustain below 36900 for 15 mins, the probability of a bounce is high.


2. 15 min charts.

Above Friday's High on 15 min charts, if we sustain that level for 15 mins can sell strangles.

If we gap down on Monday, only selling calls would be a good idea as the probability of the market going below 36900 would increase.


3. Hourly / 60 min charts.

On hourly charts, wait for a 1 hour close above 37900 levels to again look for Future buy opportunities.

The structure of Lower high and lower low will change to a higher high here.


Option chain data.

Shows a stiff resistance at 38000 levels. There was an addition in put writing at 37000 levels, expecting them to run for cover if 36900 breaks.

Positions haven't been built a lot so best is to wait for a day or two.
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