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 be talking about trading big stock moves with options the right way. This really comes down to what we've seen just in the last couple of months. It could be individual ticker symbols like SLV or GDX or TLT. They’ve had really big moves in the last couple of months. And what people tend to default to do when they expect a big move in a stock is they tend to want to buy options and they think that buying options leads to potentially the biggest payout because they have limited risk and all this upside potential. What they fail to remember is that in all cases long-term, the buying power that options provides prices in the expected move that should happen in the stock. And so, what we see is that when stocks are about to make a big move or have already made a big move, all of that stuff is priced in and long-term, stocks underperform their expectation. Now, this doesn't mean that you couldn’t find y