Risk Management

Learn how proper position sizing reduces risk, maximizes returns, and helps traders survive market volatility for long-term success.

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The Retail Options Trader's Risk Playbook

A practical risk framework for retail options traders: sizing, IVR/EM, delta targets, DTE windows, exits, hedging, and a 60-second pre-trade checklist.

Options 101: How Much Should You Risk on Your First Options Trade?

Learn how to size your first options trade the right way. Discover proven risk-management methods professional traders use to survive and thrive.

Risk Management & Position Sizing for Options Traders

Discover how professional options traders manage risk with max loss rules, drawdown control, and portfolio-level sizing for lasting success.

Andrew Crowder

🧠 Mental Capital: How the Greatest Traders Overcome Losses

The best traders in history aren’t defined by winning streaks, they’re defined by how they survive losses. Learn the mental frameworks, risk rules, and psychological resilience that protect both capital and confidence.

Options 101: What Is a Protective Put?

The insurance policy every stock investor should understand. Learn what a protective put is, how it caps downside while keeping upside open, and why it’s one of the most important risk management tools in options trading.

Andrew Crowder

The Hidden Risk Options Traders Rarely See: Surviving the Sequence

Most options traders fail not because they lack an edge, but because they can’t survive losing streaks. Discover how sequence risk works, why it ruins traders, and how to protect yourself.

📚 Educational Corner: Managing a Losing Cash-Secured Put (CSP): A Professional Trader’s Guide

Learn how to manage a losing cash-secured put (CSP) like a professional trader. Explore rolling, assignment strategies, risk controls, and when to walk away. A step-by-step guide for smarter options income.

Eight Practical Ways to Hedge Your Poor Man’s Covered Calls

Andrew Crowder

The Hidden Correlations: Why Your Options Portfolio Isn’t as Diversified as You Think

Why More Tickers Don’t Equal Less Risk, and the Framework Professionals Use to Truly Diversify

Andrew Crowder

📚 Educational Corner: The Hedge Fund Manager's Guide to Portfolio Protection

How Professionals Use Options to Protect Portfolios from the Unexpected

🧠 Mental Capital: The Seven Pitfalls That Derail Options Traders (And the Habits That Prevent Them)

The Habits That Separate Survivors from Casualties in Options

The Autumn Gauntlet: Why August, September (...and October?) Challenge Markets Most

And How Smart Options Strategies Can Shield Your Portfolio When Euphoria Meets Reality