Options strategies, automated trading insights, and market education.
What Is Tradematic? Tradematic is an automated trading platform that executes iron condor options strategies in connected broker accounts. The platform is not…
Bernardo Rocha
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Introduction Options premium is the price paid by the buyer to the seller for the rights conveyed by the options contract. It represents the full cost of the…
Introduction Maximum loss in options trading is the most you can lose on a single position if everything goes wrong. For defined-risk strategies like iron…
Introduction The benefits of automated options trading are concrete, not abstract. Automation doesn't make a bad strategy profitable — but it removes the…
Introduction A put option is a contract that gives the buyer the right — but not the obligation — to sell an underlying asset at a specific price (the strike…
Introduction Tradier is a US-based brokerage that supports options trading with API access — which makes it one of the brokers compatible with automated…
Introduction Iron condor profit and loss is fully defined at the moment you enter the trade. The maximum gain is the net credit received. The maximum loss is…
Introduction Stop losses for options trades work differently from stock stop losses. You don't set a stop based on the underlying asset's price — you set it…
Introduction A call option is a contract that gives the buyer the right — but not the obligation — to purchase an underlying asset at a specified price (the…
Introduction Copy trading is the practice of automatically replicating another person's trades in your own account. When the trader you're copying opens or…
Introduction Iron condors make money through time decay — the natural erosion of options premium as expiration approaches. When you sell an iron condor, you…
Introduction An options contract is a legally binding agreement that gives the buyer the right — but not the obligation — to buy or sell an underlying asset at…
Introduction Equity protection — sometimes called an equity protector — is a risk control mechanism in automated trading that pauses or stops new position…