You may think of our trading strategy setups for entering or exiting trades. But they may be used for making option spreads adjustments to the individual legs, which can then increase overall profits, when compared to holding the spread intact until expiration.
Trading Method Strategies And Adjustments To Options Spreads
November 16, 2013 by Barry Lutz
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Tagged with option credit spreads, option debit spreads, option spread legging, options entry timing, trade entry timing
Tagged with option credit spreads, option debit spreads, option spread legging, options entry timing, trade entry timing
Options Spreads Timing Setups For Entries And Exits
October 12, 2013 by Barry Lutz

When you leg into or out of an option spread, you do your trade 1 strike at at time instead of as a spread. Timing this ‘properly’ can give a number of trading profit benefits – including making more money on the spread than its maximum at expiration, and doing credit spreads that can’t lose money.
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Tagged with option credit spreads, option debit spreads, option spread legging, options entry timing, trade entry timing
Tagged with option credit spreads, option debit spreads, option spread legging, options entry timing, trade entry timing
Options Spreads And Legging Into Individual Options
October 11, 2013 by Barry Lutz

This video discusses legging into and out of option spreads, and reviews a timing problem with a spread legged exit. A 4.00 spread price hit the trader’s trailing price of 3.00 on a gap [and I am all for that decision], but instead of exiting the spread at one time, they tried to leg out and only ended up with 1.80.
Filed under: Options Spreads Adjustments
Tagged with option credit spreads, option debit spreads, option spread legging, options entry timing, trade entry timing
Tagged with option credit spreads, option debit spreads, option spread legging, options entry timing, trade entry timing