It’s the TRADER’S turn now! Our options trading “All Stars” will share their favorite tips, tactics, and strategies for today’s market. As new AI-based trading systems proliferate…and the number and type of options vehicles you can trade grows…staying educated on the latest developments is the key to success. This panel will ensure you do.
Options expirations cycles have been getting compressed. The first listed equity options had quarterly expirations, which then became monthly, weekly, and now daily for certain products. Traders have truly embraced short-term expirations, sometimes called “0DTE,” with about half of total options volume occurring in options with a week or less to expiry
Steve Sosnick, chief strategists at Interactive Brokers, has nearly four decades of market experience, with nearly 25 of them spent as an options market maker. In this course, he’ll explain why traders need to be aware not only of the opportunities in these options, but of the incremental risks that they can present.
Plus, he’ll teach you…
- The history of options expirations and why “triple witching” no longer causes much dread
- Why “0DTE” options can somehow be considered both the cheapest AND the most expensive options one can trade
- The advantages and disadvantages of cash-settled index options
- The potential risk of after-hours assignment in physically settled options, and why this risk can be greater with the newly listed Monday and Wednesday expirations on individual stocks
- Strategies for managing these unique risks and rewards