About us
This group is for all Bay Area option traders and investors using options in their portfolios. Let's meet and enhance our knowledge of option concepts, tools, strategies and techniques making us in the process more successful traders and investors. We will benefit from sharing the diverse option investment approaches of our members, and bring in guests who can help us gain even more information. All experience levels are welcome....
... 2019 Update: Do you like "Money & Sleep"? Those are often our members top 2 of their top 5 favorite things in life: Hence, Options Trading! (And more specifically, Options selling/writing/spreading)
If you like Sound Financial knowledge (Masse teaches for CFA exam & UC Berkeley) & bad dad jokes (Masse's kids are rolling their eyes as we type this), this is 90 minutes well-spent each month... (And profitable!)
Upcoming events
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*Industry Event*: "The Art of Selling Options" by the Growth Stocks of SF group
Embassy Suites by Hilton San Francisco Airport Oyster Point, 250 Gateway Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA, South San Francisco, CA, US*Industry Event* "The ART of Selling Options" by the Growth Stocks of SF group:
(NOT a formal SF/EBOT event, however, I will be speaking at the event)As many SF/EBOT members know, there are a LOT of resources for trading, SO we often share events that might be of interest to other members: This is ONE of those! Check out our "brother" meetup group, the host will be the "Growth Stock Investors of SF" group (here's a link to their meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/ibd-95/).
AND they are hosting a 2-day event titled "Growth Stocks of SF: The Art of Selling Options". Fellow SF/EBOT member Hans O put together a FANTASTIC AGENDA that is headlined by our Hero: Tom Sosnoff! (Many of us trade options on the platform he invented: Think-Or-Swim/ Think Pipes!).
Here is the link to register: https://www.meetup.com/ibd-95/events/282140387
If you use the code 100, you will pay $10 vs the $100 event fee (ONLY for the first 8 responses) OR the next 20 replies can enter promocode 50 when you RSVP for the event and save! (Only pay $50 instead $100)
(NOTE, I usually try to stay away from fees, however, Hans is simply charging admission so he can break even on the room he is bringing us all together for at the Embassy Suites by Hilton San Francisco Airport. Here is his FULL AGENDA from Hans:One-day live event: The Art of Selling Options, featured speaker Tom Sosnoff, co-founder of Thinkorswim and Tastytrade, Friday, October 2nd, 2026, Embassy Suites South San Francisco, $100, OR student discount (send email for code).
Some of us have dinner or a drink at the hotel bar/ restaurant starting at 6 PM on Thursday evening. Then the Schedule, Friday October 2nd:
- 8:00 AM - 8:30 registration in front of Mc Millan room, back of the building
- 8:30 - 9:45: Wendy Olayvar, who makes a living selling options: "Option Selling as a Business"
- 9:55 - 12:00: Tom Sosnoff: various option selling approaches: selling strangles vs. selling iron condors, example of a basket of non-correlated underlyings, weekend time decay, role of agentic AI in trading and in portfolio composition, and additional topics. Q&A throughout
- 12:'00 - 1:20 PM: lunch vegetarian and vegan meals available
- 1:20 - 2:40 PM: Jonathan Masse, teacher of options classes (UC Berkeley & Rice Online MBA), organizer of option selling Meetup, financial advisor: Short put SPY, at-the-money portfolio vs. long SPY, surprising conclusions.
- 2:50 - 4:00 PM: Tom Sosnoff Part II: continued from the morning plus Tom's newest endeavor.
To RSVP, click here: https://www.meetup.com/ibd-95/events/282140387/
You will need to become a member of the Meetup Group (free) that is organizing this event, in order to RSVP. Email hansoverturf1@gmail.com for student discount code or if you have any questions.21 attendees
Past events
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