Yes. I trade the /ES Weeklys (and EOM) profitably (with the occasional (but contained) loss of course.) Sometimes I sell the Monday Weeklys, sometimes the Wednesday Weeklys, sometimes the Weeklys that expire on Friday. Sometimes I trade a Weekly product that expires in 2 or 3 days sometimes a Weekly product that expires in a week or two.
Some stock and ETF Weeklys (e.g. AAPL, AMZN, SPY, etc. have Weeklys listed out to the end of January. The SPX index options have dozens of Weeklys listed out to the end of May 2021. Futures Weeklys (e.g. the /ES) have Weeklys (WK2, WK3, WK4) also listed out to the end of May 2021. Some Futures Options have no Weeklys (e.g. /CL and /GC.)
I do not use Supply/Demand Zones, Bollinger Bands, Wilder's RSI, Appel's MACD, Simple/Hull/ Exponential moving averages, Pitchforks, Gann lines, Fibonacci's or (my favorite) Dragonfly Dojis or Swinging Hammers (analysis the Japanese rice traders used in the 16th century.
I do use some fundamental analysis (e.g. jobless claims, mortgage applications, etc.) which the market has usually already factored in and options Greeks, principally delta, theta and gamma. Along with Standard Deviation and expected moves at 1SD, 2SD, etc.
I do not, unlike some others (pundits/sages/thinkers/mavins, know-it-all scholars and television personalities like Jim Cramer) have any idea what the markets are going to do a minute from now, an hour from now, tomorrow, or next week/month/year. Nor have I found technical analysis program that can project a future price based on what just happened in the last seconds/hours/days/etc. Based on my research I have found that all technical analysis tells me is what has happened, not what will happen.
There's a book on Amazon.com entitled "Technical Analysis: Is Mostly Bullshit - Why Flipping a Coin is a Better Strategy than Using Technical Analysis in the Financial, Stock, and Forex Markets." Plus there have been many books and professional/academic research papers that show why technical analysis doesn't work. Which is why someone out there is always working on yet another concept because they have discovered, as author tommcginnis has pointed out, "...new shit is invented to explain the variance away." Available to you for just $$$$, credit cards gladly accepted.
So, as I said, I trade the /ES options, credit spreads, using both short Puts and Calls protecting the position by using an offsetting long option (i.e. a vertical credit spread). If I sell both a Put and Call vertical with the same expiration it ends up being an iron condor although my iron condors look lopsided because they are more dynamic than static (same deltas vice equidistant from the ATM Options.) Skew I think that's called.
Your experience may vary of course. I have a trading plan that includes, for what it's worth;
-No Technical Analysis. A simple chart to tell me where the market has been.
-Learn what products offer options (e.g. stocks, ETFs, Indices, Futures, etc.)
-Learn which exchanges) they're traded on
-Trading specifications (tick size, trading hours, European or American exercise)
-Futuers and Futures Options, what expires when and Triple Witching Hour
-Expiration characteristics (Mon, Wed, Fri, EOM, Quarterly, etc.)
-AM or PM settled (the SPX, RUT, VIX (and others) can bite you if you don't know that
-What drives a particular market (e.g. wars, embargoes, earnings, interest rates government interference)
-Explore the dozens of trading strategies available (e.g. Buy or Sell, Spreads, Diagonals, Butterflies, Iron Condors, Ratios, etc.
-Consider Bid size, ask size, volume and open interest
-Put Call ratio (i.e. where's the money)
-What to do when a position is challenged (e.g. nothing, rolling, closing, etc.)
-Position limits (e.g. how much $$$ to trade per position)
-When to take a profit (e.g. 50-75% of the credit) or % loss.
And, finally, you DON'T need to spend much, if any, money on this stuff. Use the free training and knowledge offered by the exchanges and various websites to help build your knowledge base.
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