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Art of Monthly Income Trading — April 23, 2012

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:07 PM PDT

Dan taught a class on the “Art of Monthly Income Trading” yesterday, April 23, 2012.

Watch the video here and download the PowerPoint Slides

RUT Iron Condor

Options Safari: CL Diagonal and WFM Directional Butterfly

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 01:24 PM PDT

Dan’s two shows for CBOE TV Options Safari this week are:

CL Diagonal…or a covered call without stock

WFM Whole Foods directional butterfly

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CL Diagonal, or Covered Call without Stock

WFM Directional Butterfly

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Video Replay is Ready for You...

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Dan had a webinar yesterday on the Art of Monthly Income Trading.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Join Dan Sheridan TOMORROW at 1:00 PM Central...

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Join Dan for a FREE webinar TOMORROW at 1:00 PM Central (Chicago) Time:

Art of Monthly Income Trading


These are the details for joining the live class:
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Art of Monthly Income Trading

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Monday, April 23, 2012 1:00 pm Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00)

Event number: 660 801 373

If the link above does not work, you can manually join this class by following these instructions:
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2. Find the meeting "Art of Monthly Income Trading"
3. Click the "Join" button
4. Fill in your name, email address
5. Submit the form
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We hope you can attend this FREE event.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

ThinkOrSwim Chat Today and Free webinar next Monday...

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Dan is going to be on the ThinkOrSwim chat at 3:15 PM Central (Chicago) Time TODAY!

Dan is teaching a FREE webinar next Monday, April 23rd at 1:00 PM Central talking about "The Art of Monthly Income."   Please register for Next Monday's webinar at



Enjoy today's TOS live chat at 3:15 PM Central and we hope to see you next Monday, April 23rd at 1:00 PM Central (Chicago) Time.


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Options Safari: RUT Iron Condor and MSFT Guerrilla Calendar

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 01:47 PM PDT

Dan’s two shows for CBOE TV Options Safari this week are:

RUT Iron Condor

MSFT Guerrilla Calendar Spread

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RUT Iron Condor

RUT Iron Condor

MSFT Guerrilla Calendar

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Two Hot Dogs, Italian Beef and a Side of Options....

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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Options Safari: GOOG Earnings Iron Condor & APPL Bearish Butterfly

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 08:40 AM PDT

Dan’s two shows for CBOE TV Options Safari this week are:

MCD Bullish Diagonal Spread

FXE FXE Bearish Diagonal Tom suggested

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MCD risk chart

MCD Bullish Diagonal Spread

FXE risk chart

FXE Bearish Diagonal

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Option Synthetics Quiz Answers

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:54 AM PDT

Quiz Answer

Quiz Answer

How did you do taking the quiz on Option Synthetics? In case you want a refresher, here’s an article I wrote about them that is a good summary: What everybody ought to know about Option Synthetics. We can use an easy equation to remember the synthetic relationships:

C = U + P

The relationships can be summarized in this short table:

1. Long Call = Long Stock + Long Put (C = U + P)
2. Short Call = Short Stock + Short Put (-C = -U – P)
3. Long Put = Long Call + Short Stock (P = C – U)
4. Short Put = Short Call + Long Stock (-P = -C + U)
5. Long Stock = Long Call + Short Put (U = C – P)
6. Short Stock = Short Call + Long Put (-U = -C + P)

Armed with this information, let’s go through the quiz:

1. How would you create a synthetic SHORT CALL?
That’s #2 on our summary: Short Stock + Short Put

2. How would you create synthetic LONG STOCK?
That’s #5 on our summary: Long Call + Short Put

3. How would you create a synthetic LONG PUT?
That’s #3 on our summary: Long Call + Short Stock

4. How would you hedge an out-of-the-money SHORT CALL with a synthetic position?
To completely hedge the position, use a synthetic LONG CALL at the same strike as your SHORT CALL.
Buy LONG STOCK and a LONG PUT at the same strike as your SHORT CALL.
You now have zero risk and are perfectly hedged.

5. If your underlying is near your upside expiration on a butterfly trade, how would you reduce your delta risk with a synthetic position?
If you are near the upside expiration of a butterfly, you have negative Deltas.
New need to crease your deltas. Positive delta synthetics are #1, #4 and #5 on our summary list above. Any of them should give you more positive delta. If you need a fine adjustment, use #1 or #4 as #5 (Long Stock) is +100 deltas, which might be too much, depending on your butterfly size.

6. How can you completely neutralize a 100/110 call credit spread with puts?
Create a box spread. The 100/110 call credit spread is +1 100C and -1 110C. If you add -1 100P and +1 110P you would have synthetic Long stock at 100 and synthetic Short stock at 110. This position has zero risk.

7. You are long a futures contract at $100. The contract is now at $125. How can you lock in the $25 profit without selling the futures contract over the weekend with a synthetic option position?
To lock in the $25 profit, you just need to add a synthetic short future with futures options:
-1 125C and +1 125P should give you a synthetic short future contract, which will neutralize your long future.

I hope you enjoyed the quiz. It’s good to know these relationships and practice from time-to-time with a quiz like this!