trading Options Online - How to Lose Money When Trading

I own been trading stocks online since the youthful 90s and in 2005 stimulated into options. At to facilitate stage I was mostly a swing to intermediate trader and own since stimulated more into generation to swing trading. Most of my trades consist of selling Calls, Puts, Bull-Put spreads, and Bear-Call spreads and occasionally I will pay money for a run of the mill or two. During this time I own probably made all gaffe to facilitate can be made and in for the most part luggage lost money as a effect. Maybe you can gain knowledge of something from the mistakes to facilitate I own already made.

Entry Mistakes
1.   Buying the injure option (or stock) 2. Buying Calls what time I destined to pay money for Puts  3.  When selling spreads, reversing the options 4.    When big improbable the order, entering an incorrect option symbol 5.   Looking next to the injure chart and followed by basing my trade decision on it 6.    Looking next to the injure stage frame contained by the justification chart 7.  Accidentally selling not in favor of the trend •    On out-of-the-money trades, selling too far (too low of delta)8.   Buying a run of the mill or option with too low of volume 9.    Trying to support conjecture the advertise. The advertise is headed down and you think it is departing to make for up so you pay money for long. 10.   Buying a run of the mill and not being aware of what time yield are being released 11.   Not glance the order type. Placing advertise order what time wanted a limit order, et cetera. 12.  Trading exclusive of a interrupt loss, either a bodily or a mental solitary. (I have a preference bodily.)

Exit Mistakes

1.    Not paying attention to charts what time exiting if using a limit representing exit 2.   Not timing the exit. A lot in life of epoch exiting contained by the chief 30 minutes of the generation is very profitable but you own to watch the charts compactly 3.   Holding a trade too long (greed) 4.    Not following your own exit rules (discipline) 5.  Getting improbable of a trade too soon (fear), if your exit rules own been destined

Spread Mistakes
  Not watching the run of the mill set a price in relation to the adjacent punch set a price. On Bull-Call spreads, if the run of the mill set a price cataract under the call bought. On Bear-Call spreads, if the run of the mill set a price rises exceeding the call bought. On Bull-Put spreads, if the run of the mill set a price cataract under the plunk sold. (If several of these conditions occur, you will need to take a recovery court case.)

Covered Call Mistakes
   Not watching the option set a price in relation to the real thing buy set a price. If run of the mill set a price cataract, you can pay money for back the call and nominate the difference amid bought and sold. • Not watching the run of the mill set a price in relation to the punch set a price of the call. If the run of the mill is climbing, you may well comprehend called improbable and lose the difference amid the set a price of call sold and the current set a price. If the set a price of the run of the mill has stimulated an adequate amount, this is not until the end of time a bad issue.

Not Paper Trading
  Paper trading is wherever you will gain knowledge of if a anticipated strategy will handiwork or not. During the precedent I would test improbable my modern strategies in the live report. Just around until the end of time lost money as a effect. Then would paper trade the strategy until I got it justification. Wrong order!