How I Would Start Trading $5,000 in Options

Teaching a person starting with options starts with buying ONE contract and determining the best greeks, risk management, stops, technical analysis. NOTHING ELSE. No strangles, No Iron Condor, No nothing.

FXI/EW/GDX/SLV all up

Karen the Supertrader: Collected premium but never bought insurance. Rolled naked, lived in 50/50 limbo — fragile when the black swan hit.
• Taleb: Wrote books on convexity but built fragility into his own barbell (winner-take-all mindset). Complexity without covenant.
• Me: I run a no-lose fortress — core shares + rent (covered calls) + armor (protective puts) + sail (deep OTM calls). Simple, ethical, convex on both tails. I don’t gamble, I covenant.

I been trading for a while idk how a new trader would understand what they are saying lol

This is something im seeing in real time. Downside is that depending on your trading platform you won't be able to trade naked strategies

Good épisode !

TT has done more for the retail options trader than all other entities combined. 100%. I can never repay TT, they are the pinnacle.

TASTY, all i am asking is a better mobile UI

Amazing video, A friend of mine referred me to a financial adviser sometime ago and we got talking about investment and money. I started investing with $120k and in the first 2 months , my portfolio was reading $274,800. Crazy right!, I decided to reinvest my profit and gets more interesting. For over a year we have been working together making consistent profit just bought my second home 2 weeks ago and care for my family.

Talk a bout click bait headline. Didn't answer the question on how you would start trading 5k in options. All we got was bunch of statistics.

I reached $90k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and insights you've shared with me over the past few months. I began this journey in November 2024 Financial education is essential for over 70% of the population, as only a few are truly literate in this area. Thanks so much Declan Ming.

I did very well buying an FXI leaps last year. I made 100% last year and just rolled it out another year a few weeks ago, and I'm up 50% already on the new call. I'm trying to learn to be a better options seller because I seem to do much better as a buyer.

Anyone knows where are those videos he mentions in the beginning that he did with daughter and Tony did with his son?

Supposed to be a simple question and yet after watching it end to end, the question still stands. Sosnoff please, LESS lecturing and more strategy, like 80% of the stuff you said went over ALL new traders head. Also, any short videos with Sosnoff is hardly ever clear, concise or strategic.

So all in on 0DTE FDs got it

Wow...im so lost. I need to watch more videos. If i read the definitions for each greek, i understand it. But to remember that definition and apply it to the stock the way its being expressed is difficult for me. Its like trying to do algebra without being able to remember the rules to each variable. 😢

I cant sell strangles with a small acount even on those stocks

Will they ever do options contracts that are less than 100 shares?

I didn't understand most of that. 😢

5 years ago I tried to understand options and it made my head hurt 5 years later it all resonates so much easier.

Great study - Probably one of the best videos I've seen. Well done Tom & Tony

0DTE options will deprive many young, gullible, naive investors from being able to retire early if at all......SMH

Mann, I really wanted to follow this and thought it would be beginner friendly but as soon as you went into iron corridor and skew and pop, I got lost. Do you have any beginners playlist for options? I’m starting from scratch and the total noob thank you. 😂

Tough to trade undefined risk in smaller accounts given you typically need to have the highest approval level to do so. And with a small account your broker is almost never going to give you that approval.

Of all the trading strategies, selling strangles is probably the worst. Constant adjustments needed to stay delta neutral, and a big gap up or down will inflict tremendous pain. Great if you own the brokerage though.

Strange/awkward break at 2:45.

If you don't like undefined risk I always recommend doing the wheel on stocks such as T and PFE. You can do this with a 5000 account. Why I recommend these in particular they are somewhat stable long term American companies in different sectors and they both offer a great dividend which is free money ! Cheers.

you get 25-40% more credit on undefined risk, but god forbid there is a black swan event youre gonna be pretty safe with risk defined, whereas with undefined you might get completely wiped out

Why not just do straight Stock Trades. Why use Options instead. Seems like it be more riskier to use Options? But with buy a stock and say it does go down. You can hold it. Till it goes back up with out any penalty. And if that stock has Divs. you are still making money.

This guy is such a clown. Typical narcissistic fool. This guy doesn't even make money trading. He just talks about it like some all knowing jerk.

I trade a small account and I'm up +/- 40%YTD. Using Put credit spreads- IC- some times Strangles. Using mechanics to manage loosing or winning trades will keep you in the game long enouch. Is not about how much you make per trade is about being consistent in your mechanics. Thanks Tasty Team for some great contents.

Started with 5k in nov 2019... buying SPY and QQQ PUTS for 3 months, turned it into 94k within 6 months due to MY STRATEGY for the upcoming Covid and, of course, i can prove it as Ive been doing this all through Tasty! Happy 2025 people

New traders need to accept two things.

1) 10 years is coming.
2) Patience.

Is it growth or is it inflation? In real terms has the ecomomy really doubled? Is a bursting of an inflationary bubble on the horizon, esp. since Capitol Hill just changed to red in the last elections?

I've found that a simple support and resistance model targeting pullback moves has been extremely profitable and consistent. I am averaging an over 80% win rate on all of my trades, with virtually no drawdown in the past couple of years with this one strategy. Should a trader in my position be looking to add more strategies to my playbook, like the iron condor? Or should I stick with the one strategy that has been working for me the past couple of years? Adding more options strategies to my playbook SEEMS like the right way to go, but is it? That's what I'm struggling with the more I watch your videos. Any advice?

Hope all option traders understand that just because probability of winning is in your favor doesn’t mean you have positive expected value selling it. The payout ratio on these are never even mentioned.

This is what you do. Buy a TSLA call option with a $422 strike price and January 10, 2025, expiration date for $4656. You're welcome!