With the second half of expiry and truncated weeks, often than not, these additional trading intervals like the ones in August manages to push a lot of Option Buyers into undue losses. With the second half of expiry and truncated weeks, I couldn’t help but share my learnings in Option selling. Because more often than not, these additional trading intervals, like the ones in August, manage to push a lot of Option Buyers into undue losses. I say undue because the price action favors, yet the time value decay creates a bigger dent to not end up making any money. The solution lies in slight aggressive alteration to the directional options trading. We are all fairly familiar with the basic time value decay handling mechanism. Like not carrying over Long(bought) Options over the weekend or creating spreads essentially Buy a Call/Put Option sell higher call/ lower Put of the strike close to the target, in case the view is positional to fund the decay in the time value of ...