Should You Trade Weekly Options or Monthly Options? http://www.financial-spread-betting.com/strategies/strategies-tips.html PLEASE LIKE AND SHARE THIS VIDEO SO WE CAN DO MORE Which is best? Monthly versus Weekly Options. Weekly options expire each Friday so a very short-term focus window. Monthly options expire on the 3rd Friday. You can buy monthly options way ahead - even months or a year ahead unlike weekly options. If you are a short-term trader weekly options may be worth a look. If a stock trades with options, there is always a monthly option but not always a weekly options. Weekly options are reserved for the bigger stocks.
When To Trade Weekly vs. Monthly Options
Weekly Options - positives
- plenty of opportunities
- useful play for a short-term thesis
Weekly Options - negatives
- big price swings - decay can be brutal
- can encourage overtrading
- lack of liquidity on less liquid shares
Monthly options
- Long Term View
- More Liquidity
- Less Opportunities
- Less Volatility