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Traders Edge Ep. 155 — Barrels, Basis Points & Inflation
Jim Iorio and Bobby sit down with energy economist Tracy Shuchart to unpack Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's first press conference, oil crack spreads hitting all-time highs, America's shrinking refinery count, and a Nasdaq correction that's dragged the index over 11% off its June high.
The Option Alpha Show With Kirk Ep. 37 — How I Would Start Trading W/ $3,000 – Part 2
Kirk wraps his two-part $3,000 starter portfolio series, live-screening Option Alpha's Trade Ideas tool for high-probability iron condors, explaining systematic vs. unsystematic risk, and showing the actual automated bot — built on ten uncorrelated ETFs — that's grown his real $3,000 account to roughly $3,800.
ORATS – Driven By Data Ep. 148 — Announcing New APIs For Time And Sales, Scanning, And Backtesting
ORATS – Driven By Data Ep. 147 — Driving The Custom Backtester With the Otto Agent
Matt uses ORATS' Otto agent to generate custom entry/exit signal files in plain English — skipping earnings, trading only specific weekdays, filtering by VIX level, or avoiding FOMC days — turning backtests that used to require manually built CSV files into a single natural-language request.
ORATS – Driven By Data Ep. 146 — Managing Positions With The Risk Profile Tool
Matt walks through ORATS' portfolio-level risk profile tool, showing how it aggregates positions across multiple brokerage and paper-trading accounts into a single payoff diagram and delta exposure reading, using his own real, partially-hedged multi-account portfolio as the live example.
ORATS – Driven By Data Ep. 144 — Using AI + the ORATS CLI To Build An Options Research Agent
Tyler demos ORATS' new command-line interface, which connects an AI coding agent like Claude directly to ORATS' options data so it can answer natural-language questions, remember a trader's watchlist and preferences, spawn parallel sub-agents to research multiple tickers at once, and draft a scheduled morning briefing.
ORATS – Driven By Data Ep. 143 — Safer Wheel Strategies
Matt and Tyler build a lower-risk version of the classic wheel strategy — selling a far-out put and buying a shorter-dated one for protection — screening candidates through ORATS' stock and option scanners before walking through a live WCC put diagonal example.
Trading Zone Ep. 117 — Nvidia’s Volatility, the Yen Carry Trade, and Bitcoin’s MicroStrategy Problem
Solo again with Brian out sick, Joe Tighe traces how Nvidia's rising S&P weight now drives broader market volatility, unpacks the yen carry trade's risk to tech names, flags MicroStrategy's potential forced Bitcoin selling, and closes with a call butterfly betting Nvidia breaks out of its 160-200 range.
Trading Zone Ep. 116 — A ’96-Style Year in Review, and a Look Ahead
Joe Tighe and Brian Stutland frame the year through the lens of 1996-97 — a similar Fed rate-cutting cycle followed by strong equity gains — then debate Oracle versus Rocket Lab as AI-buildout proxies, make the case for Google leading the next leg of the AI trade, and close with a defined-risk SPY iron condor for triple-witching week.