{"id":36926,"date":"2016-08-28T18:10:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T22:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=36926"},"modified":"2018-12-04T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T18:15:50","slug":"tdi-podcast-naked-spreads-and-strangles-with-kirk-du-plessis-473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/28\/tdi-podcast-naked-spreads-and-strangles-with-kirk-du-plessis-473\/","title":{"rendered":"TDI Podcast: Naked Spreads and Strangles with Kirk Du Plessis (#473)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257 alignright\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/itunes_subscribe3-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Naked Spreads and Strangles &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t get much sexier that that. Yes, we are talking about options &#8211; but don&#8217;t be afraid as our guest, Kirk Du Plessis of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.optionalpha.com\">OptionAlpha<\/a><\/strong> walks us through some &#8220;complex&#8221; strategies that are really much simpler that you think.<\/p>\n<p>We discuss spreads, strangles, condors and other ways to profit from options. Kirk also gives is a good primer of Delta, Theta, Gamma and Vega &#8211; all the <em>Greek<\/em> you will need.<\/p>\n<p>Of course central bank activity is in the spotlight and we take a close look at Yellen&#8217;s Jackson Hole speech and what to make of it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/optionalpha\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @OptionAlpha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/optionalpha.com\/\"><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36928 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kirkProfile-Square.jpg\" alt=\"kirkProfile Square\" width=\"126\" height=\"136\" \/><\/i><\/a><\/strong><strong><span class=\"\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/optionalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirk \u00a0Du \u00a0Ple<\/a><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\"><strong><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/optionalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ssis<\/a> \u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; \u00a0a full-time options trader, real estate investor, and stay-at-home Dad. A former Mergers and Acquisitions Investment <\/span><span class=\"\">Banker for Deutsche Bank in New York and REIT Analyst for BB&amp;T \u00a0Capital Markets in <\/span><span class=\"\">Washington D.C., he founded<\/span><span class=\"\"> Option Alpha in 2007. What started as a small blog has quickly grown into one of the industry&#8217;s most respected authorities on options trading w<\/span><span class=\"\">ith more than 5.4 \u00a0million visitors each year and 30,000 active members representing 42 different countries. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"yui-wk-div\"><a href=\"https:\/\/optionalpha.com\/\">Options Alpha<\/a> shows<span class=\"\"> them how to consistently make smarter, more profitable <\/span>t<span class=\"\">rades \u00a0by showing them \u00a0Kirk\u2018s personal, real <\/span>money trades each and every night after the market closes (good + bad). <i>(network of over 20K).<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"yui-wk-div\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yui-wk-div\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yui-wk-div\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @andrewhorowitz<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More information available on Horowitz &amp; Company&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/about-us\/tdi-strategy\/\">TDI Managed Growth Strategy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3333\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode473.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3333','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode473.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/TDI_PlayPodcast-679.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode473.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=36926-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode473.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tdi_episode473.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 57:05 &#8212; 31.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5vtvEVDPUi4221imwhXyXt\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Markets-and-Investing\/The-Disciplined-Investor-p414586\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Spreads and Strangles &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t get much sexier that that. Yes, we are talking about options &#8211; but don&#8217;t be afraid as our guest, Kirk Du Plessis of OptionAlpha walks us through some &#8220;complex&#8221; strategies that are really much simpler that you think. We discuss spreads, strangles, condors and other ways to profit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3334\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode473.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3334','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode473.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/TDI_PlayPodcast-679.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode473.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=36926-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode473.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tdi_episode473.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 57:05 &#8212; 31.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5vtvEVDPUi4221imwhXyXt\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Markets-and-Investing\/The-Disciplined-Investor-p414586\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,186,12,9,296,42],"tags":[118,297],"class_list":["post-36926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-marketmash","category-markets","category-podcasts","category-shownotes","category-stocks","tag-podcast","tag-show-notes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}