Imran Lakha | Options Insight
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Imran Lakha | Options Insight397,077 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
"If you understand probabilities in this game, then you understand the risk. And by understanding risk, you can take more of it than a typical person might." Jason (Jason Ruschel) on why most traders have the risk equation backwards. Jason runs Three Peaks Trading and trades his own book full time. Before that he spent 5y reading institutional option flow for a living. He learned the VIX during the 2008 crisis from floor traders' blogs, while he was still at college, and says he's never really read an options book. 0:00 Meet Jason Ruschel of Three Peaks Trading 1:58 Going Full Time, and Learning to Control Drawdowns 4:20 Rolling Deltas Before a Winner Turns on You 7:45 What Institutional Option Flow Actually Tells You 11:03 LEAPS, Cash-Secured Puts, and Giving Yourself Time 17:25 Buy the Stock, or Sell the Put? 20:27 VIX Call Spreads and Reading the Term Structure 30:34 The Earnings Trades He Will and Won't Take 34:35 Is Dealer Gamma Real, or Coincidence? 37:47 Automating 0DTE, and When Backtests Stop Working 42:26 The Flyagonal 46:02 Gold, Jackson Hole and the Midterms 50:17 Oil, and the IPO That Might Mark the Top
Imran Lakha | Options Insight41,465 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
I will keep this available for 24 hours (FREE) My Earnings Options Protocol — a 20-minute video that shows you how I trade earnings like a PRO... Inside you’ll learn: - How to read implied moves vs past earnings reactions. - Spot overpriced vol & where it’s likely to reset. - Use skew & open interest to find “sticky” zones. - When to use unbalanced flies, OTM calendars, or iron condors. Want it? Reply “EARNINGS” + retweet, and I’ll DM you the link (must follow so I can message you). ⏳ Available FREE for 24 hours only.
Imran Lakha | Options Insight286,496 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
"We roughly spend 55% of our P&L on slippage" Mark Anderson (Mark Anderson) on where the money in 0DTE actually goes. Mark trades one of the largest 0DTE books I know of. Before this he was doing construction and fixing up rental properties. 0:00 From Construction Sites to Running a 0DTE Fund 2:21 Why 0DTE Isn't the Casino Everyone Thinks It Is 3:55 What His Book Really Is at the Tail 6:27 Why He Buys 80-Vol Options on Purpose 10:37 Is the Risk Premium Broken? 13:34 Where I Disagree With Him 15:02 Why "High VIX" and "Low VIX" Are Meaningless 16:48 The Three Volatility Factors Nobody Separates 19:03 55% of His Profit Goes to Slippage 20:08 Fifteen Strategies, Only One That Works 30:56 There's No Such Thing as an Uncorrelated Strategy 32:16 What He Does on FOMC Day 35:04 Is the Edge Structurally Decaying? 40:41 The Cost No Trader Can Control 44:56 Using Anything as Collateral 48:19 Captain Condor and the Target on Your Back 50:10 Why Market Makers Don't Just Do This 55:22 What Retail Gets Most Wrong 1:01:50 The Truth About GEX
Imran Lakha | Options Insight33,694 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
If you missed the memory-chip rocket, the vol is now paying you to get a second shot… Parabolic memory names pulled back to Fib; sell cash-covered puts if you're happy to be delivered stock lower down. High vol = fat premium, get paid to wait, assigned into the name you wanted before earnings.
Imran Lakha | Options Insight48,654 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
For a precious metals buyer, gold vol popping and the put skew going vertical isn't a warning sign. If anything it's the best setup you'll get. Gold vol is up around the 80th percentile, and the put skew is about as steep as I can remember. The market is paying a fat premium for downside protection in gold. If you're nervous, that looks like a reason to stay away. If you actually want to own gold lower down, it's the opposite. Steep put skew plus high vol means the puts you'd be selling are richly priced. So selling cash-covered puts at a level you'd happily buy gold anyway has rarely looked this attractive.
Imran Lakha | Options Insight41,204 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
This rally is being driven by forced buying. Hedgies were short. CTAs are being forced back in. It’s not people buying because they want to. It’s buying because they’re forced to. If the news flow deteriorates, the same people will have to sell it again. So the question is what happens when the flow stops. You’re not only trading market direction but instead this is more trading positioning. This is not where you want to be short gamma. I see it as: Deal gets done: market keeps ripping. Deal fails: market sells off. Supportive flows are fading. Event risk is rising. Do I want to be running short gamma into the weekend with Monday's straddle priced at less than 1%. Probably not. This is exposure to uncertainty, not a view.
Imran Lakha | Options Insight54,357 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
IBM has smashed through its put wall on the downside and that put wall hasn’t rolled lower. So what that means is the options landscape is not shifting down with the price. That’s important. Normally if there was going to be continuation to the downside you would expect this put wall to roll lower to lower levels because people who have bought puts that have gone in the money are going to monetise them and then roll them down to even lower strikes because they think there’s more downside in the stock. When the stock is getting hit but the options landscape isn’t shifting with it, you have to ask whether the structure is changing even if price hasn’t. So the fact that the put wall was holding is somewhat supportive. That’s not really enough for me though. That’s where most people get this wrong: they focus on the move, not the positioning. If you’re chasing the move instead of understanding the "under-the-hood" vol dynamics, you’re missing a key part of the puzzle. Comment “IBM” and I’ll send the full trade idea.
Imran Lakha | Options Insight56,801 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
Fantastic episode this week on CRYPTO OPTIONS UNPLUGGED with both Raoul Pal and Michaël van de Poppe in the studio with myself and David Brickell. As always, full episode link in Bio. Thanks to our sponsor Deribit for making it happen! Some highlights... Raoul gives his views on "the millennial struggle" and why so many people are being attracted into crypto.
Imran Lakha | Options Insight81,831 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
$NVDA is going to crush earnings. Everyone knows this. That's the problem. None of us are going to be surprised by good numbers. The question isn't whether they beat. It's the second derivative. How much is already priced. How many people already hold the stock. Semis have outperformed software. The stock has been rallying into the print. Ownership is crowded. And option players aren't piling into calls ahead of the report. That part matters. When there's no aggressive call buying into an earnings event on one of the most liquid names in the world, it tells you something about where risk appetite actually sits. Look at the rest of the Mag 7. Most reported well. Market had a knee-jerk higher. Then faded. Same setup here. Mean reversion after the dust settles looks sensible — even if the numbers are quite good. One caveat: If everyone de-risks before the report, the crowded-ownership thesis weakens. Structure over conviction. Always.
Imran Lakha | Options Insight33,017 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
RANT ALERT! Here is a clip from my weekly update to subs talking about why the fixed strike surface moves on SPX clearly indicate the market maker community is back to long gamma positioning on the latest rally in markets. Using common sense and tracking the price action in implied vol are key components to deciphering the true positioning landscape in a market with so many moving parts.
Imran Lakha | Options Insight22,534 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
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