Curriculum
Multi-leg construction, volatility regimes, expiry behaviour, and surviving your own drawdowns.
Straddles, strangles, condors and butterflies are not names to memorise — they are four legs assembled to express one specific view. Here is how to build the shape you actually want.
14 min readAsking "is volatility high?" is meaningless without a reference. IV rank gives you one — and it turns the buy-or-sell-premium decision from a guess into a reading.
12 min readExpiry is not an intense version of a normal day — it is a different market with its own physics. Gamma, pinning, the decay cliff, and why most traders should be flat before it.
13 min readMost option education stops at entry. But every outcome is decided at the exit — and "adjusting" is where good traders repair positions and bad traders hide from losses.
13 min readTimeframes routinely contradict each other, and that is not a problem to resolve — it is a hierarchy to use. Context from above, timing from below, and the mistake that ruins both.
12 min readCharts stop working under specific, identifiable conditions. Knowing those conditions is worth more than any additional pattern — because it tells you when to stand aside.
12 min readEvery strategy has losing streaks. What separates traders who continue from traders who stop is entirely what they do during them — planned in advance, while nothing is at stake.
12 min readIn a probabilistic game, a good decision can lose and a bad decision can win. Judging yourself by results teaches you the wrong lessons — here is what to judge instead.
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