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This topic is includes some of the more useful links to my articles and the forum posts. Please feel free to suggest new links. Seeking Alpha Articles Seeking Alpha Articles by category Exploiting Earnings Associated Rising Volatility How To Rent Your Options For Free Why I Dislike Holding Strangles Through Earnings Lessons From Earnings Plays Could This Strategy Be The Holy Grail Of Investing Forum posts How To Use the Forum Determining a good entry price for pre earnings straddles SteadyOptions strategies and Allocation Guidelines The importance of position sizing Tools to analyze the earnings trades Vega vs gamma Best Practices/Tools The process of placing the earnings plays Balancing your portfolio Straddle strangle or reverse iron condor Be aware of the risks Brokers and Commissions How we trade Iron Condors How we trade Calendar Spreads How we trade butterfly spreads How we trade straddles and strangles How we trade pre-earnings calendars How we Trade Calendars Around Earnings How we Trade Reverse Iron Condor Around Earnings How we trade VIX When we Roll Straddles Trading and getting fills with IB Recommended reading PayPal Billing My Seven Stages of being an SO Member

I'm going to move the brokers related posts to Brokers and commissions. Let me repeat what mentioned countless number of times: ticket fee will have devastating impact on your account, especially for small accounts. Lets do a quick math. We do at least 10 trades per month in our model portfolio. Since many of them are double calendars, and some straddles with adjustments, we can assume 40 trades per month. That's $400, or $5,000 per year, thrown directly to garbage. For 10k portfolio, that's 4% per month or 48% per year. If you switch to IB and save that money, you can spend a small portion of those savings and buy options software like ONE that leaves TOS far back.