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

Hey everyone. Welcome back. This is Kirk here again at Option Alpha. On today’s daily call, we’re going to answer the question – “How many stocks should you watch or trade at a time?” I think this is a hot topic because people get started into trading and not quite sure what activity level they should have with stocks or options. Should they be watching just the indexes or ETFs or should you be watching everything all at once? Now, on the furthest extreme, we know that we can’t just watch one individual stock or ETF. We know that we have to be watching more than that if we want to get a good idea or a breath of the market. On the other furthest extreme, we know that we can obviously watch everything, so what do you watch? I think the short answer to this is you watch the things that are liquid and the things that are tradable. That’s what I watch. I’ve narrowed down our watch list over time to about 80 or so tickers that are on the list. That doesn’t mean that we monitor each and every one of them every singl