Options strategy from the market in motion.
Options Playbook Radio is a short-form investing show built around current options setups in names like SPX, Amazon, GLD, VIX, and UnitedHealthcare. Brian Overby connects market news, event risk, implied volatility, and defined-risk structures into practical trading examples.
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Options Playbook Radio is a compact options-trading show centered on live setups rather than broad market chatter. Episodes usually move fast. Brian Overby begins with a catalyst in front of the market, then turns it into a trading exercise. One episode uses UnitedHealthcare’s sharp drop after Medicare Advantage payment-rate news as the starting point. Another looks at SPX after budget negotiations and prediction-market odds. Amazon earnings become a lesson in implied volatility and Friday expiration. GLD at all-time highs becomes a way to think about gold exposure around a Fed meeting. VIX behavior during a government shutdown becomes a puzzle about whether the marketplace is underpricing volatility. The show’s recurring strength is its step-by-step attention to structure. Butterflies, open-wing butterflies, iron condors, backspreads with puts, long straddles, and zero-DTE contracts are treated as specific tools for specific conditions. It is not casual personal-finance talk. The language assumes comfort with options mechanics, underlying prices, expiration, volatility, skew, credit, decay, and event risk. Still, the format keeps the analysis approachable by staying anchored to familiar tickers and current headlines. The episodes often run around ten to fifteen minutes, which gives them a focused, tactical feel. There is room for judgment, too. Overby notes when the market reaction seems strange, when a probability still leaves room for failure, or when a hedge has tradeoffs hidden inside its cheaper price. The show repeatedly frames options as education, not advice. That matters because many examples involve short-dated contracts, earnings reactions, and potentially complex payoff shapes. For the right listener, the appeal is clear: Brian Overby taking one market moment and showing how a trader might translate it into a defined strategy.
Made for: For options traders and active investors who understand basic derivatives terminology and want practical examples tied to current market events. It best suits listeners interested in volatility, expiration timing, and structured risk.
What sets it apart: The show compresses a full trade-thesis walkthrough into short episodes built around live catalysts. Instead of staying abstract, it uses recognizable underlyings like SPX, Amazon, GLD, VIX, META, AAPL, NFLX, and UnitedHealthcare.
Welcome to Options Playbook Radio - the program where we break down cutting edge options strategies and explain how you can incorporate them into your own portfolio. Whether you're looking to grow your capital with some offensive maneuvers or protect your investments with defensive plays, you can find them all in the Options Playbook. Options involve risk.
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A practical review of put backspreads as lower-cost downside insurance when a stock faces severe shock risk.
Options Playbook turns the put backspread into a clear case study in paying less upfront for protection against a market shock. It lays out the structure in plain terms: sell one put, buy two cheaper puts, and use the result as a possible hedge for stock already owned around…
A Micron long straddle becomes a clear lesson in probability, implied volatility, and earnings timing.
Options Playbook uses a possible Micron long straddle to test a familiar options premise: expecting a stock to move is not the same as finding a trade with favorable odds.
A moved-against call butterfly becomes a practical look at adjustment mechanics and the psychology of taking a loss.
Options Playbook Radio uses a call butterfly that has gone the wrong way as a grounded lesson in trade management. The host works through a position built with the 228, 232, and 236 strike calls, then explains how selling the 228 call and buying another 236 call changes the…
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
Host Brian Overby analyzes a long straddle options strategy on Micron Technology (MU), which is nearing its all-time high from 2000.
Brian Overby reviews a butterfly trade in IWM that is down 34 cents with nine days remaining.
A discussion on zero days to expiration options, challenging put trades, and top strategies for the year in options trading.
Brian Overby discusses how to trade stock splits using an AMZN call spread strategy.
Brian Overby discusses UnitedHealthcare's stock drop due to flat Medicare Advantage payment rates and explores options strategies for trapped investors.
Brian Overby discusses a potential government shutdown and proposes a zero DTE butterfly trade in the SPX.
Brian Overby discusses trading an open wing butterfly on Amazon earnings using zero DTE options.
Brian Overby discusses the market's flat response to a government shutdown and proposes using VIX butterfly strategies to capitalize on potential future volatility.
Brian Overby discusses trading GLD options around the Fed meeting after gold hits an all-time high.
Mark Longo and Brian Overby answer listener questions about zero-day options on Apple and Meta, ratio put spreads, covered straddles, and stock-repair trades.
Brian Overby compares Snap's failed momentum call with a Booking Holdings long call spread before the February 23 earnings announcement.
Brian Overby reviews an Apple earnings trade built around a $145.43 stock price and a $140/$136/$134 Christmas tree put butterfly.
Brian Overby analyzes Apple ahead of its February 2 earnings announcement using a February 3 Christmas tree butterfly.
Brian Overby explains why zero-DTE options are "gamma bombs" and when selling puts may make sense.
Brian Overby discusses the iron condor options strategy and how to manage it as expiration approaches.
Brian Overby reviews recent drama in META and decay in NFLX, discussing options strategies for traders.
Mark Longo introduces a live edition of Options Playbook Radio, discussing options trading strategies and portfolio management.