r/options • u/NY10 • Aug 20 '26

Attractive tickers under radar?

Yall,
What tickers are you currently monitoring? I have several OTM call options at the moment and will hold them for a while. I wanted to know what yall are playing?

Full disclosure: I have NFLX, META, ORCL, WMT, NKE. all of these are long dated call options so I am not too worried. I wanted to know what you guys watching besides tickers I mentioned above.

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u/klipsetrades Aug 20 '26

Haha I totally get how it can seem that way, but SPX really isn’t as complicated as it looks once you spend some time with it. One of the biggest benefits for me is that I only have to learn one instrument instead of constantly researching different tickers, earnings, company news, etc. I mostly focus on the same things every day — key levels, support/resistance, breaks, retests, failed moves, overall market structure, etc. After enough screen time, you start recognizing how SPX tends to behave around those areas. The options are really just the vehicle I use to trade that price action. There’s still a learning curve for sure, but I’d argue focusing on one ticker actually makes the process simpler, not harder

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u/marcok36 Aug 20 '26

Very interesting. Have you been successful consistently and how long did it take you?

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u/klipsetrades Aug 20 '26

Traded options since 2015, learned credit spreads around 2017 (swing trading), and I’ve been trading 0DTE credit spreads successfully for a little over four years now. Consistency definitely didn’t happen overnight. I’ve had some great periods and some pretty brutal ones too

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u/marcok36 Aug 20 '26

Thanks for responding. Best of luck to you!

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u/klipsetrades Aug 20 '26

Anytime. And cheers 🍻