About Tim Biggam
Tim spent 13 years as Chief Options Strategist at Man Securities in Chicago, 4 years as Lead Options Strategist at ThinkorSwim and 3 years as a Market Maker for First Options in Chicago.
He is the editor of the POWR Options newsletter.
He began his trading career on the CBOE trading floor just months before the crash of 1987. Surviving Black Monday taught him an invaluable lesson in managing both your risk and emotions. In addition, he traded for a volatility arbitrage hedge fund for over five years and created and runs an option and volatility based separately managed accounts (SMA) program.
Tim makes regular appearances on Bloomberg TV "Options Insight" and CBOE-TV "Vol 411" to discuss option strategies. He also is a weekly contributor to the TD Ameritrade Network "Morning Trade Live" and Business First AM "Trader Talk". Tim has also appeared on CNBC’s Volatility Playbook.
Tim has a Masters of Science degree in Financial Markets and Trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business. He is an avid golfer and a die hard Chicago Bears fan-so he knows about taking losses. He feels that while losses are inevitable in trading, large losses are unconscionable. Position sizing and risk control are just as important as trade selection when trading options.
His overriding passion is to make the complex world of options more understandable and therefore more useful to the everyday trader. If you would like to see more of his best options trades, then click the following link See Tim Biggam's Favorite Options Trades.
Recent Articles By Tim Biggam
All We Are Saying Is Give Puts A Chance
Lower IV and higher rates make a put purchases more attractive on a richly valued S&P 500
How It Paid Off To Go Long The Best Chip Stock When The Chips Were Down
Buy the best when things look the worst. A quick analysis of the lastest trade in semi stock CRUS.
3 Reasons Why Now Is A Great Time To Consider A Covered Call Strategy In QQQ
Buy the pullback in QQQ and hedge by selling pricy calls with Strong Buy Rated QYLD.
How To Buy The Best Stocks At The Best Time
How to use the POWR Options approach of combining fundamental, technical and implied volatility analysis with a recent RIO trade as an example
How To Painlessly Put Together A Profitable POWR Pairs Trade
Using the POWR Ratings to power profits on a POWR Pairs trade in Zoetis (ZTS) and Air Products (APD)
How To Combine The Power Of Options And The POWR Ratings To Produce A POWR Pair Trade
Using the POWR Ratings to power profits in a POWR pairs trade in HPQ and WDC
How To Profit Using The POWR Options Pairs Trade
Buying bullish calls on the best stocks like QCOM and bearish puts on the lower rated stocks like AMD
Valuations, Velocity, and VIX Point To A Probabilistic Pullback In S&P 500 (SPY)
VIX hit a new yearly low. S&P 500 hit a new yearly high. Playing for a pullback by buying puts on SPY has never been cheaper over the past 12 months.
3 Big Reasons Why Microsoft May Not Be A Buy After All
Cheap puts and an expensive stock set up for a put play in Microsoft (MSFT).