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The AI Options Trader: Use Forecasts, Scenarios, Volatility, and Defined Risk
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Series: AI Trading Systems, Book 7
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ISBN13: 9798190718935
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 542
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.09 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 542
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.09 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Options are structured risk: Many traders enter the options market because contracts appear inexpensive, losses seem limited, and profits look unlimited. Then they discover the hidden costs of time decay, implied volatility, poor liquidity, bad strike selection, oversized positions, and trades that were directionally right but structurally wrong.
The AI Options Trader teaches you how to combine chart analysis, AI-assisted forecasts, option-chain data, the Greeks, volatility, expiration selection, strike selection, and defined-risk strategies into one repeatable decision process.
The central principle is simple: The forecast is not the trade, the risk plan is the trade.
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to:
- Analyze the underlying before selecting an option
- Read option chains without feeling overwhelmed
- Understand delta, gamma, theta, vega, and implied volatility
- Compare strikes and expirations intelligently
- Recognize liquidity, spread, slippage, and event risk
- Match bullish, bearish, sideways, and uncertain scenarios to appropriate structures
- Evaluate long calls, long puts, debit spreads, credit spreads, covered calls, cash-secured puts, protective puts, and collars
- Calculate maximum loss, maximum gain, breakeven, and position size
- Create paper options tickets and maintain an honest trading journal
- Use AI as a decision-support assistant, not as a prediction machine
How to Use the Book
Part I: Options Without Casino Thinking
Begin here to replace impulsive options trading with a structured process. Learn why cheap contracts are not necessarily safe, why the underlying chart comes first, how calls and puts really work, and how to read an option chain.
Use these chapters to build your foundation before studying advanced strategies.
Part II: Greeks, Volatility, and Time
Study delta, theta, vega, gamma, and the interaction among all four Greeks.
Use this section whenever you are comparing contracts, choosing an expiration, evaluating implied volatility, or trying to understand why an option behaved differently than expected.
Part III: Forecasts, Scenarios, and Strategy Selection
Learn how to translate bullish, bearish, sideways, and uncertain market scenarios into possible options structures.
Use these chapters before entering a trade. They will help you determine whether the idea deserves a long option, a spread, a watchlist decision, or no trade at all.
Part IV: Defined-Risk Options Strategies
Explore debit spreads, credit spreads, covered calls, cash-secured puts, protective puts, and collars.
Use this section as a strategy reference. Compare each structure's cost, risk, reward, assignment exposure, breakeven, and suitability for the expected market move.
Part V: Events, Liquidity, and Risk
Learn how earnings, implied-volatility crush, wide bid/ask spreads, slippage, and poor position sizing can damage an otherwise reasonable trade.
Review these chapters before trading around earnings, selecting a less-liquid contract, or deciding how many contracts your account can responsibly handle.
Part VI: The Complete AI Options Trading System
Bring everything together through paper trading, journaling, complete trade planning, and a 12-month development roadmap.
Use these chapters to create a repeatable workflow, review your decisions, identify recurring mistakes, and gradually improve your process.
A Three-Timeframe Process
Throughout the book, you will use:
- 1-hour charts over one month to study market structure, trend, support, and resistance
- 15-minute charts over five days to evaluate the setup
- 5-minute charts over two days to refine execution and invalidation
Start asking: Does this entire plan deserve risk?
The central principle is simple: The forecast is not the trade, the risk plan is the trade.
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to:
- Analyze the underlying before selecting an option
- Read option chains without feeling overwhelmed
- Understand delta, gamma, theta, vega, and implied volatility
- Compare strikes and expirations intelligently
- Recognize liquidity, spread, slippage, and event risk
- Match bullish, bearish, sideways, and uncertain scenarios to appropriate structures
- Evaluate long calls, long puts, debit spreads, credit spreads, covered calls, cash-secured puts, protective puts, and collars
- Calculate maximum loss, maximum gain, breakeven, and position size
- Create paper options tickets and maintain an honest trading journal
- Use AI as a decision-support assistant, not as a prediction machine
How to Use the Book
Part I: Options Without Casino Thinking
Begin here to replace impulsive options trading with a structured process. Learn why cheap contracts are not necessarily safe, why the underlying chart comes first, how calls and puts really work, and how to read an option chain.
Use these chapters to build your foundation before studying advanced strategies.
Part II: Greeks, Volatility, and Time
Study delta, theta, vega, gamma, and the interaction among all four Greeks.
Use this section whenever you are comparing contracts, choosing an expiration, evaluating implied volatility, or trying to understand why an option behaved differently than expected.
Part III: Forecasts, Scenarios, and Strategy Selection
Learn how to translate bullish, bearish, sideways, and uncertain market scenarios into possible options structures.
Use these chapters before entering a trade. They will help you determine whether the idea deserves a long option, a spread, a watchlist decision, or no trade at all.
Part IV: Defined-Risk Options Strategies
Explore debit spreads, credit spreads, covered calls, cash-secured puts, protective puts, and collars.
Use this section as a strategy reference. Compare each structure's cost, risk, reward, assignment exposure, breakeven, and suitability for the expected market move.
Part V: Events, Liquidity, and Risk
Learn how earnings, implied-volatility crush, wide bid/ask spreads, slippage, and poor position sizing can damage an otherwise reasonable trade.
Review these chapters before trading around earnings, selecting a less-liquid contract, or deciding how many contracts your account can responsibly handle.
Part VI: The Complete AI Options Trading System
Bring everything together through paper trading, journaling, complete trade planning, and a 12-month development roadmap.
Use these chapters to create a repeatable workflow, review your decisions, identify recurring mistakes, and gradually improve your process.
A Three-Timeframe Process
Throughout the book, you will use:
- 1-hour charts over one month to study market structure, trend, support, and resistance
- 15-minute charts over five days to evaluate the setup
- 5-minute charts over two days to refine execution and invalidation
Start asking: Does this entire plan deserve risk?
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