How Much Money Can I Make Trading Options?

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Comments

1. Love the video! Just to make sure I get my math right. At 20:15 the annual return is displayed at 11.71%. When I pull out my calculator, 0.12% x 365 x 25% equals to 10.95%. Not a huge difference, what I'm really worried is if I did not understand the math :) Would be great if you can elaborate and thank you for a great tutorial!
2. You say that you ask people, do you want high profit or high roi...Shouldn't you instead be asking them what is your brokerage fee for each trade? since really roi is what matters overall, you could figure out which would be a higher profit by comparing spread vs naked by including commissions, to get comparable roi's.
3. WOW!!! Thanks so much Kirk, this video is amazing!!! Thanks for all the tips and strategies :) I have a question, which platform are you using or how can I find a free options chains with Probability ITM ? Mine doesn't have that tool and I can't find any on the web. Can you please share a link? Cheers!!!
4. Quite nice. This is better than the mentors that I paid money for.
5. Fantastic staff !
6. You say "margin" quite a few times. Margin to me is a loan from my broker so I can purchase a position. Being it is a loan, it comes with interest. If it's margin that you withdraw from your account, I think I would understand your explanations better.  Very good video. Thank you
7. Just awesome
8. Kirk I love the videos but can you explain how if your shooting for 70% success and if you are risking $162 for a max profit of $40, can you tell me how that would be profitable if I run this same trade 10 times and win 7 times my profit would about $280(7x$40) but if I lose the other 3 it would be negative $486(3x$162), or are we taking into account a stop loss before we hit the max risk?
9. Hello Kirk! I'm new to trading options just learning as much as I can before I get my feet wet! What platform or where do I go to see the big chart where you can search at the top left and it shows the put on the right and call on left shows the strike prices etc.
10. Is the price table that you show at 16:00 generated in Thinkorswim?
    
    Thanks
11. Ok, what is the difference in Implied Volatility, and Volatility, do you ever use stochastics as an indicator !
12. Hello: Excellent Video, Question, what control IV, the market as a whole or the sector the stock is in ? Why is one stock at 46 IV and the other is at 70 IV, what controls this ?
    
    Thanks,
13. if i invest $5000 and my return will be 10% per year that is $500 per year.??? is it worth?
14. Just wondering how you get to pay only 1.25 dollars per trade.
15. How are you quantifying your risk on each trade? How do I know what a 2% position is for example?
    
    Thanks
16. Hello Kirk, I have a question on why you are taking the selling positions of the options.. what difference does it make? At first I thought it was because of the probability is higher but looking down the chart on the screen the probability is high. Maybe I am missing something..
17. whats the reasoning behind only trading 25% of your account? If you have an 80% chance to win wouldn't you make more money trading all of it? or is that remaining 75% what you have to put up for risk?
18. i have enjoy this video and i have learned quit a lot
19. Hi, really good video, so if ther is a 100k account, and you invested 25%.. which is 25k.. is 25k is going to be used in margin in single trade? or 25k is the target premium you want to collect in 1 year? thank youu....
20. All i can say is WOW. You have truly cut the bull and just talked sense into me. I have been educating myself by watching videos and reading materials in this for past a year now. But this video alone is worth money. Thank You!!!!!!