The "daily Call" From Option Alpha: Options Trading | Stock Options | Stock Trading | Trading Online

Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again from Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to go through our ultimate quick guide to trading stocks. I think this is actually going to be fairly short because what I want to talk about with regard to stock trading is only just a couple of key bullet points, but if you're new to trading or you’re new to investing, likely, the path that you’re going to take when you start is you’re going to start looking at trading stocks. In fact, this is the most typical or usual path that options traders eventually get down, is they start trading stocks and then they do potentially covered calls and then they just fully commit to options trading or some sort of derivative product trading. But trading stocks is actually pretty simple, pretty easy to do because all you're trying to do is take advantage of different price points. There's no time aspect of it, there's no volatility aspect, there's no Theta decay, there’s no Gamma risk. It's actually very simple