Imran Lakha (How to use option strategies to improve your market edge)

• 00:00:38 How Imran found his way from Wall Street to teaching option strategies at Options Insight.
• 00:09:42 What retail traders should learn before trading options. Why meme stocks options are such a 'rational choice' right now?
• 00:14:42 Where are the best opportunities for trading options to still have an edge?
• 00:24:45 What is Imran's view on the delation/inflation scenario? Are commodities a good hedge?
• 00:29:35 Why does a 'rational investor' buy negative yielding bonds (or very low yielding bonds) at all considering the inflation risk?
• 00:36:35 Did Softbank successfully manipulate the stock market for mid-tier tech stocks in 2020?
• 00:43:19 Is there a 'low risk' strategy to buy/sell volatility?
• 00:48:56 What are excellent, low risk hedging strategies for a portfolio? Can a option based 'hedge' actually make money?
• 01:03:15 What is the strong relationship between low interest rates and money losing tech companies?
• 01:08:10 Is there are place for 'value investors' left? Why does the investment world basically just 'bet on more free money' instead?
• 01:13:14 What is Imran's strategy to use options trading Bitcoin upside/ downside?

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Imran Lakha has been working with Citibank, Bank of America and Credit Suisse trading options. He now teaches options strategies at Options Insight.

 

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Torsten Jacobi: Yeah, we love to have you on and we know your specialty is option trading. And do we also know you've been all old, all street, different banks, credit, Swiss, city bank over the years, and you've been doing this for a long time. And I was curious, what attracted you to the financial industry in the first place? And then why did you leave Wall Street at some point?

Imran Lakha: Okay, so in terms of what attracted me to Wall Street, I guess, you know, I did mathematics and economics at university. I was the son of an accountant. So my dad was in finance, both my brothers were kind of in finance as well. And so because I was always pretty decent at maps and had those quantitative skills, it was like, what career can I go into and utilize the skills that I have? And, you know, going to London School of Economics set me up to be able to, you know, be attracted by those big banks on Wall Street where, you know, as a 20, 30 year old, you can you can make good money and, you know, you can get some decent security and live a good life, right? That was the kind of goal when I originally started. I was brought up to be very motivated to get myself secure and comfortable in life, right? So, you know, my dad struggled, you know, he moved here. When he was 20 years old, he struggled through various jobs that he would, he was quite skilled, like in terms of knowledge and stuff, but he had to do jobs that were kind of, you know, maybe a little bit basic for him. And he didn't want us to go through the same strife, right? So he, he kind of taught us that, you know, work hard at school, get the skills, get a good job and make set yourself up, basically, right? So it's very Asian, very Asian mentality. But it kind of worked, right? It was, it was certainly worked on a materialistic level, like allowing me to earn enough money to get myself comfortable, you know?

Torsten Jacobi: Yeah. Why did you end up, and I know you changed positions for different banks over the years, but I know you took a break a couple of year