Directional Scans for Options Strategies
Duration: 63.57

Jim Bittman shares the intuition behind and advantages of two conservative, non-leveraged Options strategies, geared toward the conservative investor. He explains a top-down approach to finding stocks that are suitable for Covered Call and Cash Secured Put strategies. Material includes an explanation of scanning techniques used to find charts of interest as well as a primer on basic Options strategies and pricing behavior. If you are new to trading Options or are looking for a conservative growth investment strategy, this video will give you the tools you need to get started.
What You'll Learn:
- Why even for options traders, it’s important to start with the stock chart first
- Intuition behind and advantages of two basic conservative, non-leveraged Options strategies: Selling Covered Calls and Cash Secured Puts
- How to mine the market for possible stocks of interest, with a focus on leading Sectors and stocks within those Sectors
- To translate basic stock price patterns into Options trade setups
- How to scan for some of Jim’s favorite Covered Call chart setups
- How Options pricing behavior is different than Stock price behavior
- To analyze possible Options trades with Profit and Loss tables and charts