Market Minutes
How Laura thinks about the market, delivered to your inbox in real-time as markets move.
Market Minutes is Laura's educational breakdown of what is happening in the market and why it matters. Each issue covers the key levels, the setups she is watching, and the concepts behind the moves. This is not a trade alert service. This is how a 28-year options trader reads the market, explained in a way that makes you a better trader whether you follow her strategies or not.
MM37 - Freeing up Cash in a Retirement Account
This is a very important Market Minute today. And you have never heard me speak about this in any of these prior. Let me set the scene. You own 4 T...
MM36 - Tale of 2 Short Calls
Today I want to walk you through something I get asked about all the time. Why would I keep one short call position open but buy back another one t...
MM35 - Closing out a Short Call Early
I want to go over something I am hearing a lot right now in the community. “I sold a covered call and I am frozen”. I do not know what to do. I do ...
MM34 - Why New Option Traders Lose Money
In the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to speak with a lot of new traders in the Options Goddess community, and I hear the same thing ove...
MM33 - The Babe Ruth Trade
Not financial advice. I rarely feel compelled to jump on camera for a short-term options trade… but this one I simply can’t stay quiet about. This ...
MM32 - Diagonal Spread Exercise
So I have had this question a lot in the community, and here is the situation. A lot of you started selling calls when we were in a sideways tradin...
MM31 - A Tale of 2 MSLs
So this question keeps coming up in the community, and it is a really good one. If I am going to buy a modified synthetic long on Tesla, why would ...
MM30 - Strangle Lesson
I want to take a moment to answer some questions about selling strangles, straddles, and calls in our current market. Up until a few weeks ago, eve...
MM29 - SATS Comparison
I want to talk about SATS again today. This is the ARB play that InvestAnswers came up with, and it is brilliant. Win or lose, this is a brilliant ...
MM28: Why Convert from MSL to SL
I have had a lot of questions in the community asking why, when Tesla was selling off and we got down to $335, would I sell out any of the long put...
MM27 - What Happens to Your Synthetic Long at Expiration
So I have had a couple of very specific questions about what happens to a synthetic long at expiration. This is one of those topics that sounds sim...
MM26 - What happens to your PMCC at Expiration?
This is probably the number one question I get asked in the Options Goddess community, and I have been getting it over and over again. So let's tal...