Can You Make Money Option Trading Level 1 ?

PARA $12 Call 17 Apr $0.27 x $0.29 BTO $0.28

HTGC $22 Call 17 Apr $0.25 x $0.30 BTO $0.30

Added to the htgc position with a shorter time call, it looks to have more upside potential near term.
 

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ASC $12 1/2 Call 18 Jul $0.35 x $0.50 BTO $0.50
 

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VITL $25 Put 21 Mar $0.10 x $0.20 BTO $0.15 (2)
 

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LYG $4 Call 17 Apr $0.05 x $0.10 BTO $0.09 (3)
 

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VITL $25 Put 21 Mar $0.15 x $0.30 STC $0.23 (2)
 

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Most recent trades. Closed the KGC at $0.91, but took an opposite direction short term. Time to look more closely at how to choose better in current conditions. Too many trades failed to produce a profit.
 

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AEVA had 5 gaps from $2.50 to $7.50 in 10 trading days. Volume profile shows lots of overhead until high $8. Is this last gap an exhaustion?
AEVA $5 Put 16 May $0.15 x $0.20 BTO $0.16
 

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To answer your original question, yes you can make money buying to open.

I had a journal doing similar; although mainly options on index futures instead of equities.


In my experience you'll do better significantly better trading spreads though.
 
Sid, Thank You! I truly appreciate the comment and the insight especially from your thread. I will look up your thread and read it. I had hoped that others would comment and help refine this as a means for people to supplement their incomes. In level 1, I think it might be possible to initiate a straddle around a news release, but that requires watching intraday.

I am currently looking at 1 day per week of active trading and using 0 DTEs. I'm looking at the SPY. Of course the SPY daily is currently in an expansion phase. My thoughts, when it exits this expansion is it going to retest highs or down to 514?
 
I think you might benefit from stepping back, then focussing on what you're trying to achieve and then how you do so.

Your first post mentioned 60-90DtE. But then you don't mention how the trades in subsequent posts went.
RULES:

All options that I purchase will have 2 to 3 months of life, 1 level out of the money, and cost no more than $1 + or -. One option contract at a time. Focus on the KISS principle and don't deviate. The more complicated I make it, the more times I am wrong, thus KISS.

You later say:

Recently in a T2W journal by Brett Bot, he disclosed that new 52 week lows on good companies typically bounce 10%, and I have started to test this with an option in SWBI. here's that trade BTO:

Plenty of opportunities to deploy that now, but you haven't shown if your testing showed positive P&L at what Sharpe.

But a few months later you're exploring 0DtE.

Perhaps decide where your edge is by backtesting with as much historic data as you can get hold of, and then deploy trades to monetise it.
 
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