Educational Purpose
Options30 provides general educational information and automated technical setup alerts. Options30 does not provide personalized investment advice and does not determine whether any security, strategy or options contract is suitable for you.
Options Can Lose Their Entire Value
An options buyer may lose the entire premium paid. An option may expire worthless even when the underlying security moves in the expected direction.
Options prices are influenced by multiple factors, including:
- Underlying price
- Strike price
- Time remaining
- Volatility
- Interest rates
- Dividends
- Liquidity
- Supply and demand
- Market conditions
Leverage Increases Risk
Options may create substantial exposure using a relatively small amount of capital. Leverage may increase gains, but it can also produce rapid and substantial losses.
Time Decay
Options generally lose time value as expiration approaches. A correct directional view does not guarantee that an options trade will be profitable.
Volatility Risk
Changes in implied volatility may affect an option's price independently of the underlying security's movement. An option can lose value because implied volatility declines.
Liquidity and Spread Risk
Some options have:
- Low volume
- Low open interest
- Wide bid-ask spreads
- Unreliable quoted prices
- Difficulty obtaining execution
The displayed price may not be the price at which you can buy or sell.
Expiration and Exercise Risk
Options have expiration dates. Failure to understand expiration, exercise, assignment or brokerage procedures may result in unexpected positions, losses, fees or obligations.
Market and Technology Risk
Markets may move rapidly. Orders and alerts may be affected by:
- Gaps
- Halts
- Volatility
- News
- Economic announcements
- Liquidity changes
- Exchange problems
- Brokerage failures
- Internet outages
- Delayed data
- Alert failures
- Incorrect information
Automated Alert Risk
An Options30 alert may:
- Be delayed
- Be duplicated
- Be incorrect
- Be incomplete
- Fail to arrive
- Arrive after the setup changes
- Identify a false breakout
- Become invalid immediately
- Contain an incorrect price
- Be generated from incomplete data
Never rely on Options30 as the sole method of managing an open position.
No Contract Recommendation
Contract-search guidelines are general educational criteria. Options30 does not warrant that:
- A matching contract exists
- A contract will remain available
- A displayed premium is current
- A contract is liquid
- A strike is suitable
- An expiration is suitable
- A Greek value is accurate
- A trade will be profitable
You must independently research and select any contract.
No Guarantee
There is no guarantee that you will make money or avoid losses. Past results, examples, backtests, statistics, testimonials and hypothetical results do not guarantee future performance.
Read the OCC Options Disclosure
Before buying or selling options, obtain and read the current Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options published by the Options Clearing Corporation.
View the OCC Options Disclosure Document →Your Acknowledgment
By using Options30, you acknowledge that:
- You understand trading may result in substantial loss
- You may lose the full amount committed
- You are responsible for independent research
- You are responsible for every trade
- Options30 does not know your financial circumstances
- Options30 does not guarantee results
- Alerts may fail or be incorrect
- You should consult qualified professionals when appropriate
- You accept the risks associated with your decisions