Hi, I'm Dale Wheatley, The Options Hunter.
I went from contractor to options trader by learning one thing: what actually makes prices move. Now I teach that simple, chart-based method to traders around the world.
It started on job sites, not trading floors
I spent years as a contractor, traveling the country and looking for a more stable financial future. That search led me to the markets.
Stocks first
Like most people, I started trading stocks and felt the frustration of trying to time entries and exits.
Then options
Options offered something stocks didn't: limited risk and far greater upside on the same move.
Discovering MACD
Through years of study and experimentation, I found the MACD indicator gave me reliable trading decisions, and I refined my entries and exits across multiple timeframes.
Teaching the method
I began teaching my approach to others, and have since shared it with traders around the world.
Defined risk. Enormous potential.
When most people hear "1,000 percent return," they assume it's a scam. But when you learn to trade out-of-the-money (OTM) options, moves like that do happen, sometimes in days or even hours. The major index ETFs, including SPY, QQQ, IWM and XLE, have all seen multi-1,000 percent option moves in short periods.
When you buy an option, your risk is limited to what you paid for it plus commission. Your potential return isn't capped.
What most banks pay
CDs pay less than 1% APR, and savings and money market accounts pay far less.
To double at 3%
By the "rule of 72," and inflation and taxes still erode your real purchasing power.
Your maximum risk
When you buy an OTM option, the most you can lose is what you paid for it.
Options can lose their entire value. Large percentage moves are possible but not typical, and past results don't guarantee future returns.
The chart tells you more than the news
Most people study earnings, P/E ratios and analyst opinions, but those rarely explain what actually moves prices. TV, radio and financial news explain moves after they happen; they rarely predict them.
Practically every day, options move sharply when their price foundation is jolted into motion by something visible in a chart pattern. Learn to recognize those patterns and you understand why prices move. That's where high returns with low risk come from.
Read the pattern
Technical patterns create the price moves that make high returns possible.
Focus on a few tickers
Watching a handful of symbols closely is the easiest way to spot powerful, repeating patterns.
Match the timeframe
Short-term and long-term patterns produce moves of different lengths, and both can be very profitable.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.Often attributed to Albert Einstein
People are slow to change. It took the NFL years to mandate helmets, and in the early 1900s San Francisco tried to outlaw motor vehicles to protect horse-drawn traffic. Trading is no different: many traders keep using methods that don't work instead of adopting one that does.
Learn the method I've spent years refining
Start with my free TriFusion Workbook, or join me live and watch the method work in real markets.
Trading options involves substantial risk and is not suitable for every investor. You can lose the entire amount paid for an option. Results described are not typical or a guarantee of future performance. The Options Hunter provides education only, not individual investment advice.