A monthly collaborative feature that brings seasoned trading experts and partners together to provide educational insight and level up retail strategies.
A monthly collaborative feature that brings seasoned trading experts and partners together to provide educational insight and level up retail strategies.
AskLex Ep. 05 | How to Create an Edge When Trading Options — Markus Heitkoetter, Rockwell Trading
Markus Heitkoetter from Rockwell Trading walks through his EdgeFinder tool — a systematic framework for identifying which ticker, expiration, and strike combination actually gives a trader an edge on any given day. A practical session on turning decision noise into repeatable process.
AskLex Ep. 03 | Alerts Are Dead: Automated Copy Trading with PeakBot — Dylan Del Rosso, Ben Colabella, Nick Giannati, Mike Walker
PeakBot automatically copies options trades the moment a signal fires — connected directly to your Tradier account. Nick Giannati (91.3% win rate NDX/QQQ put spreads), Mike Walker (10% Per Month and 5% Per Week credit spreads), and Ben's IWM 0-DTE BenBot strategy with a $200 daily risk cap are all covered.
AskLex Ep. 01 | Automated Options Trading—Without the Code — Marcus McDonnell, JTNC
Marcus McDonnell from JTNC shows how their Quantum Flow Auto Algo brings hedge-fund-level automation to retail traders — trading SPY, SPX, and QQQ with zero coding required. Two and a half minutes a day to set up; the system handles entries, exits, and risk management from there.
AskLex Ep. 04 | What Every Options Trader Should Be Watching Right Now — Henry Schwartz, Cboe
Options volume hit 70 million contracts per day in June 2026 — up from under 20 million in 2019. Henry Schwartz, VP of Market Intelligence at Cboe and founder of Trade Alert (now Cboe LiveVol), unpacks what's actually driving that growth and what the data reveals about where retail trading is heading.
AskLex Ep. 02 | The VIX Playbook: Decoding the Fear Index — Brian Overby, Options Playbook
Brian Overby — author of The Options Playbook and former CBOE member — breaks down what VIX actually measures, why it's priced off futures not the spot, how to read contango vs. backwardation, and how to build an open wing butterfly trade on Tradier Pro.
Host of The Brew
Lex is the SVP of Sales and Business Development for Tradier, Inc., and also oversees the continued development and enhancements of the TradeHawk platform. He hosts a regular YouTube broadcast called OptionsBrewTV by Tradier. This show spotlights educators, mentors, and industry leaders in an effort to offer exciting, educational content to the Tradier trading community.
Options Playbook Ep. 454 | Exploring Visa and PayPal: Payments Sector Butterflies
The window closes with two payments names — Visa and PayPal. Brian compares the very different implied vol profiles of an established payment network versus a company in active strategic transition, showing how the butterfly adapts to each situation.
Trade Pulse Ep. 57 | Late July Scan: Using Order Flow to Navigate a Volatile Market
The broad market is selling off on earnings disappointments, and Jim uses the session to show how Trade Pulse's real-time data helps identify which stocks have institutional support versus which are being aggressively sold. A practical episode for using order flow to stay on the right side of a volatile tape.
Trading Live With Bubba Ep. 322 | Markets Get Hammered: Covering Shorts, Google Put Spreads, and the Bounce Setup
Market selloff continues but Bubba covers his MNQ short and flips to post-earnings put spread entries in GOOGL (315/310 for $2) and TSLA (320/317.50 for $1.05). USO 141/142 call spread for 45 cents also executed.
The Brew Ep. 487 | Jul 23 2026 — Trader’s Workshop: Reddit Viewer Mail & Tesla Earnings
Reddit viewer questions answered in full, then a complete Tesla earnings breakdown — implied vs. historical move analysis and the specific options structures the Trader's Workshop team is actually considering ahead of the announcement.
Traders Edge Ep. 143 | May 6, 2026 — Market Breadth And What That Means For The Next Move In Stocks
Mike Arnold of Path Trading Partners shows the McClellan Summation Index is below its March lows even as prices recover — a dangerous breadth divergence. The Nasdaq is 14.78% above its weekly 50 EMA: historically a zone where you stop adding, not chasing.
Tradier Rundown Ep. 133 | May 7, 2026 — Why Gold’s Pullback Could Be A Strategic Entry Point
Jim sold 30% of his gold position near January's all-time highs. Now, with geopolitical conflict driving country-level gold selling and short-term pressure on prices, Jim and Bob explain why the fundamental thesis — inflation the Fed can't fight — remains intact.
The Option Alpha Show With Kirk Ep. 34 | May 20, 2026 — Automate Strategies With 0DTE Option Backtesting
Kirk demos the rebuilt Option Alpha 0DTE backtester with minute-level SPX data — building a live short put spread test, reading the equity curve, and converting the backtest directly into an automated live strategy via Tradier.
ORATS – Driven By Data Ep. 130 | May 5, 2026 — Using The New ORATS CLI To Analyze Data With AI
ORATS unveils its new command line interface for AI agent integration. Tyler demos the ORATS CLI with Claude, showing how to query live options data, scan for trades, and build AI-powered research workflows directly from the terminal.
Trading Zone Ep. 102 | May 4, 2026 — NVDA Options, Bitcoin Crash, And The Yen Reversal
Joe unpacks NVDA options strategy in a volatile AI market, the anatomy of the Bitcoin crash, and why the Japanese yen carry trade reversal is rippling through US equities and tech stocks.