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Options Strategies: A Complete Guide to Trading Options

This page is the starting point for every options strategy guide on StockBotty. Before diving int...

Wheel Strategy: Structure, Cycle, and When to Use It

The wheel strategy is a repeating cycle of selling cash-secured puts and covered calls on a stock...

Iron Condor Strategy: Structure, Payoff, and When to Use It

An iron condor is a four-legged, defined-risk options strategy that profits when a stock trades s...

Call Debit Spread and Call Credit Spread: Structure, Payoff, and When to Use Each

A call debit spread and a call credit spread both use two call strikes in the same expiration...

Put Debit Spread and Put Credit Spread: Structure, Payoff, and When to Use Each

A put debit spread and a put credit spread both use two put strikes in the same expiration...

Long Call and Short Call: Structure, Payoff, and When to Use Each

Every call option has two sides: someone buys it, someone sells it. The buyer holds a long call...

Long Put and Short Put: Structure, Payoff, and When to Use Each

Every put option has two sides: someone buys it, someone sells it. The buyer holds a long put...

Broken Wing Butterfly Strategy: Call and Put Versions Explained

A broken wing butterfly is a butterfly spread with one wing stretched wider than the other. That ...

Ratio Spread Strategy: Call and Put Ratio Spreads Explained

A ratio spread buys one option and sells two (or more) further out-of-the-money options of the sa...

Calendar Spread Strategy: Structure, Payoff, and When to Use It

A calendar spread sells a near-term option and buys a longer-dated option at the same strike. Unl...

Protective Put Strategy: Structure, Payoff, and When to Use It

A protective put buys a put option against shares you already own - one contract per 100 shares....

Covered Call Strategy: Structure, Payoff, and When to Use It

A covered call sells a call option against shares you already own - one contract per 100 shares....

Iron Butterfly Strategy: Structure, Payoff, and How It Differs From an Iron Condor

An iron butterfly is close cousin to the iron condor covered elsewhere on this site - same four-l...

Straddle and Strangle Strategies: Long and Short, Explained

A straddle and a strangle are both built from one call and one put in the same expiration...

Jade Lizard Strategy: Structure, Payoff, and Why It Has No Upside Risk

A jade lizard combines a short put with a call credit spread, all in the same expiration -...

Diagonal Spread Strategy: Structure, Payoff, and How It Relates to Calendar Spreads

A diagonal spread sits at the intersection of two ideas already covered on this site. A calendar ...

Collar Strategy: Structure, Payoff, and a Deep ITM Variant

A collar combines the two strategies already covered in the covered call and protective put guide...

Playbook: How I Try to Manage and Rescue Losing Option Trades

⚠ Before you read any of this: everything in the Playbook is a record of my own trading...

Covered Call Rescue: How I Roll Up and Out to Avoid Losing My Shares

⚠ Before you read this: this is what I personally do when one of my covered calls is...

How I Adjust a Losing Short Put: My Premium-Multiple Framework

⚠ Before you read this: this is how I personally manage my own losing short puts - not...

How I Recovered a Losing Put Credit Spread by Selling the Long Put and Rolling

⚠ Read this before the technique below. This is a record of something I've done on my own...

Short Put to Strangle to Straddle: The Most Aggressive Recovery I Use

⚠⚠ This is the most aggressive technique in this Playbook - read carefully before anything else. ...

Using a Put Ratio Spread as an Entry Tool Instead of a Limit Order or Short Put

⚠ Before you read this: this is not a rescue technique - it's how I sometimes structure an...

The Options Greeks Explained: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and How They Interact

Every strategy guide on this site references the Greeks in passing - theta decay here, gamma risk...

Assignment and Exercise Explained: How It Actually Works

Early assignment, pin risk, and dividend risk show up in the risk section of nearly every strateg...

Rolling Options Explained: Out, Up/Down, and Down and Out

Rolling comes up as a management technique in nearly every strategy guide on this site, described...

Implied Volatility Explained: The Basics, Term Structure, and Skew

IV-Rank and IV Percentile, covered on the strategies overview, describe whether implied volatilit...

Futures Options: Delivery Risk vs. Cash Settlement

Futures options get less everyday attention than equity options, but they carry a mechanical wrin...

How to Read an Option Chain

An option chain looks dense the first time it's opened - rows of numbers stretching across the sc...

How to Read Options Flow: Filtering Noise From Signal

A colorful "unusual options activity" screenshot is easy to find and easy to misread. Large trade...

QQQ and SPY Pinned at Gamma Flips: The Dealers Are Hedging Into Calm

QQQ and SPY pinned at gamma flips with historic low IV-Rank. Bullish flow concentrated in near-te...

The Gamma Squeeze Nobody Is Talking About – And Why 68 Setups Just Flipped

68 HIGH alerts cluster around QQQ, SPY, and tech. Dealer gamma flips are inches away from spot. I...

Why 68 Bullish Signals Are Hiding a Contrarian Trap

Bullish signals dominate, but negative GEX and exhausted IV suggest the crowd is late to the part...

The Nasdaq Gamma Trap: 55 Unusual Strikes and a GEX Flip at the Gate

QQQ is pinned between dealer hedging dynamics. Sixty-one 0DTE unusual strikes suggest price is be...

The Compression Before: QQQ and Tech Mega-Caps Trapped in a Volatility Squeeze

QQQ trapped in volatility compression with unusual put concentrations at GEX flip. Tech and energ...

XRP: Zero Historical Edge – Why This Signal Demands Attention

XRP: Zero Historical Edge - Why This Signal Demands Careful Attention What happens when a signal ...

COIN Historical Edge 78.89% – Day 10 Trade Exit Rules

COIN: 78.89% Historical Edge with a Clear Day 10 Exit Rule Executive Summary Coinbase Global (COI...

MRVL Trend Change Signal: 37.9% Historical Edge with Exit Rules

MRVL Trend Change Signal: 37.9% Historical Edge with a Clear Day 10 Decision Point Executive Summ...

RSG Trade Setup: 3.57% Edge with 10-Day Exit Rules

RSG: Historical Data Shows 3.57% Edge with Clear 10-Day Decision Rules Republic Services (RSG) si...

REMX: 28.55% Historical Edge – Rare Earth ETF Trade Signal Analysis

REMX: 28.55% Historical Edge with Clear Signal Structure - Here's What the Data Shows Executive S...

QQQ Signal Follow-Up: -1.03% After 10 Days | Exit Triggered

QQQ Signal Follow-Up - 10 Days Review: -1.03% Performance Executive Summary On August 10, 2026, a...

FSLR Signal Follow-Up 10 Days: -10.47% Stoploss Exit

FSLR Signal Follow-Up - 10 Days Review: -10.47% Performance Executive Summary A trendchange signa...

PLTM Signal Follow-Up: 10 Days +7.31% Performance Review

PLTM Signal Follow-Up: 10 Days Review — +7.31% Performance Executive Summary On August 10, ...

LLY Signal Follow-Up – 10 Days: +1.90% Performance Review

LLY Signal Follow-Up - 10 Days Review: +1.90% Performance Executive Summary The LLY trendchange s...

NFLX Signal Follow-Up +4.33% – 10 Days Review & Hold Decision

NFLX Signal Follow-Up - 10 Days Review: +4.33% Performance Executive Summary On August 10, 2026, ...

SHLD, GDX Lead as Utilities Plunge – Momentum August 22

Cybersecurity Climbs as Utilities Fade - August 22, 2026 Executive Summary Sector momentum shows ...

Financials Lead, Utilities Collapse – August 21, 2026

Financials Lead as Utilities Collapse - August 21, 2026 Executive Summary Capital is rotating har...

Commodities Lead as Sectors Fade – Momentum Rankings August 20

Commodities Surge as Tech Retreats - August 20, 2026 Executive Summary Commodity ETFs are command...

Financials Lead as Utilities Collapse – August 19, 2026

Financials Lead as Utilities Slide - August 19, 2026 Capital is flowing into established financia...

Financials Lead, Biotech Flips – ETF Momentum August 18

Financials Lead as Biotech Stalls - August 18, 2026 Executive Summary XLF (Financials) dominates ...

VIX at 15.13: Market Calm Masks Longer-Term Risk

VIX at 15.13: Why This Calm Masks a Deeper Story The VIX closed at 15.13 on August 21,...

VIX 16.01 – Five-Day Rally Signals Repositioning Underway

VIX at 16.01: Markets Pricing Calm, But Structure Suggests Caution The VIX closed at 16.01 on Aug...

VIX at 14.89: Markets Pricing Sustained Calm

VIX at 14.89: Markets Are Pricing in Sustained Calm The VIX closed at 14.89 on August 19, 2026,...

VIX at 15.84: Calm Masks Hidden Market Pressure

VIX at 15.84: Calm Holds While Traders Wait for the Next Move The VIX closed at 15.84 on...

VIX 15.19: Why Suppressed Volatility Signals Risk Ahead

VIX at 15.19: Why Suppressed Volatility May Hide Complacency The VIX currently stands at 15.19, c...