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Option Trade Alerts Service
At Stock Market Guides, we offer an options picking service where an alert is sent for each new pick we make. We use historical statistics to help you buy low and sell high in the stock market using options. Our options service only features option trading opportunities that have a quantitative back-tested edge. We don’t shoot from the hip with trade ideas here. We rely exclusively on the data. This ensures that if you get an option trade alert, it’s because there is a trade opportunity that has a track record of success in backtests.
Option Trade Alerts
Each option trade alert indicates the full scope of the trade idea: the option ticker symbol, when to buy it, and when to sell it. You can see that our option trade alerts reflect a specific trading strategy and time frame. They also show how that strategy has performed historically according to backtests, both in terms of wins, losses, and return on investment. We want to offer the best option alerts possible, so they need to be easy to follow, have a track record of success, and be transparent.
Performance of Option Trade Alerts
We’re well qualified to be doing statistical research on the historical performance of options. We have years of experience doing stock market research and use a rigorous statistical process for testing each option trading strategy we feature. Here is the performance of our option trading service in backtests:
Option Picks:
Please note that this performance information is not based on live trades, but on backtests, which have important limitations. Trading options in the stock market involves risk, even when trade setups have a strong history of profitability. You can dial your risk down or up by adjusting your position sizing or the number of trades you take. The more risk that’s taken, the higher the potential for drawdowns. You can also start out by paper trading stocks to get a feel for the trades before putting real money at risk.
Features of Our Option Trade Alerts Service
Anyone who signs up for our Option Picking Service gets access to all these features:
Option Picks Powered by Our One-of-a-Kind Scanner
Our proprietary option trading scanner is the power plant behind each of our stock picks. It's the technology that identifies option trading opportunities in real time and calculates their historical performance. Our scanner uses this information to isolate the trades that have the very best historical track record of success, and it sends those out as option picks to our customers each week.
For Active Option Traders
Up to:
Option Picks per Week
Our option picking service is designed for people who are looking to hold positions for 1 week to 1 month. These picks are for active option traders. Our picks are only for buying call options. We send out up to ten option picks per week. Some weeks there might be less, depending on market conditions. Our scanner will never send alerts unless it sees an opportunity with a strong backtested edge. If you're looking to trade stocks instead, you can consider our service for stock swing trade alerts.
Support from Option Trading Experts
We have option trading experts who offer commentary on a regular basis regarding both our option picks and the general state of the market. Their commentary gets sent out to the group in an email newsletter. These experts are readily available for any questions you might have along the way.
Preferred Trade Durations:
Eric is a Senior Consultant for Stock Market Guides and has years of experience doing both stock market research and active trading. He’s a Stanford graduate with a knack for numbers. Statistical research is one of his specialties. He’s backtested thousands of trading strategies in an effort to find out which ones truly perform the best. One of his standout trading achievements is growing his trading account more than 60% in a single month from doing option trades. He also once had a month where his win-loss record with stock trades was 32 wins and 3 losses. He enjoys practicing mindfulness to stay grounded when trading. He has a family with three kids.
Preferred Trade Durations:
Andy has been doing stock market research for several years. He creates algorithms that look for tendencies in the ways that prices move in the market. His research helped him gain a deep understanding of the types of trading strategies that have typically done well over the long haul. Andy is a math whiz who loves working with numbers. He has a wife and two kids.
Option Picks Based on Technical Analysis
For our Option Picks service, our picks are based primarily on technical analysis, which means they're ideal for swing trading. This means that our trade ideas are based on these types of criteria for the underlying stock:
If you're looking for trade ideas based instead on fundamental analysis like revenues and earnings, you can consider our service for long term stock picks instead. All of the trading strategies we use for our swing trade alerts are algorithmic.
Option Alerts That Are Easy to Follow
We send trade alert notifications when we make option picks. They are sent in real time by either text or email, depending on your preference. Trade alerts are sent during normal market hours (typically right after the market opens). Our trade alerts show you a specific trade idea that indicates exactly when to buy the option and when to sell the option. You can be alerted when the trade ends, too. We tell you the exact option for the alert, including the ticker symbol, strike price, and expiration date. We also show you a history of how that options trading strategy has performed in backtests for that ticker. Then you simply decide whether to buy or not.
Weekly Options Trading Service
We offer a weekly options trading service. This means that the options we feature in our trade alerts are normally ones with “weekly” expiration dates. It's also a weekly options service in the sense that you can follow option picks that are designed to be held for a week. This image shows an example of how the list of open trade alerts look. These are trade ideas for active option traders who are regularly taking on new positions.
Options Strategies We Feature
The options alerts we send are for simple call option purchases. Based on the research we’ve done here at Stock Market Guides, deep in-the-money options might offer the best opportunity to capitalize on the backtested edges we’ve found. Our goal is to give you the best odds of making a profit, so that’s why we feature those types of option strategies exclusively. Also, we don’t send alerts for buying put options. Of all the research we’ve done, we’ve never found a long-term mechanical edge to buying puts. So you won’t find us sending alerts for exotic options strategies like iron condors or broken-wing butterflies. Our research doesn’t support it, and that might be a good thing for many people because it keeps our option trade alerts very simple.
Learn Option Trading
If you don’t know exactly what an option is or don’t know how to trade an option, you can check out our free options guide for beginners. Once you sign up for the service, you’ll also find tutorials that teach our options trading strategies in detail so that you can learn to trade them on your own if you want. They teach not only the trade setup from the chart itself, but they also teach how to pick a strike price and expiration date that capitalize on the backtested edge. Our goal is to make sure that no matter what your expertise level is, you will have the tools to be able to successfully follow our option trade alerts. And if questions come up along the way, you can contact us any time and we’ll be ready to help.
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Customer Testimonials
I am new to options trading and I've only been trading the last two months and I've been profitable both months with the help of the Stock Market Guides. I still work a "Regular" job so I don't have time to research. The alerts from Stock Market Guides are fantastic in my book.
Sam from Texas
My average ROI per option contract last month was 16.4% (negative %% included). Average turnaround per option was 5 days. The service you provide appears to be exactly as advertised.
Dennis from Florida
I bought and sold 4 suggested options and all were winners. I only bought small portions but am happy with the profits.
Don from Kentucky
Things went very well the first week with the options service. I had 5 successful trades.
Gary from Texas
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