The "daily Call" From Option Alpha: Options Trading | Stock Options | Stock Trading | Trading Online

Hey everyone. Welcome back to the daily call. On today’s call, I want to talk about options trading and expected ranges. I’m not really sure where I want to take this conversation, but I would definitely want to help people understand this concept of expected ranges, normal distributions… We’ll just use the word “normal distributions” because I think it’s easier to use than probably what the options market maybe really is or what the distribution of returns really are and we’ll talk about that here in a second. But I just want to talk about this concept because it’s really important to how we trade here at Option Alpha and really, how most back-testing and research is done. It also confirms a lot of this, so it’s not just that we’re saying this is how we think that the markets react. We know that this is how the markets react. We have a lot of data to backup what we talk about here and backup the strategies that we do. Every day, we’re doing more testing and more research and reconfirm or tweak or adjust what