Before we jump into our next section, I just want to quickly touch on a topic that has become a little
more prevalent in my own personal trading, and that's options.
I do like playing both sides.
I like the buying and selling of options.
I think, you know, options are a great way to potentially leverage your funds to get more gains.
Now with that, obviously there are more risks to it, and I would not take my advice is as in using
any of these strategies for trying to look for, you know, take them right away and look for options
that you might want to play on your own.
But you know, if you find things you're comfortable with and these these things we learn in this course
are very helpful to you for buying normal securities.
They could also tell you and be good indicators, I guess, of Stock Direction, which might be helpful
for longer term strategies of buying and selling options as well.
Some of the things that I would recommend, you know, is to go out and make yourself familiar with
these if you're not familiar with options because they do carry a lot of risk.
I think they're, you know, higher risk, high reward strategies versus the versus just the buying
and selling of securities, you know, and there's a lot more that comes to it on the tax side as well.
So just do your research before you jump into it.
My personal favorite is the wheel strategy.
This is where you sell puts and then when you're assign these puts you, you are able to sell covered
calls.
And it's it's worked very well for me to this point, and I actually learned about it through Udemy
course called options trading, generating consistent income through options by an instructor.
Christopher, if you get this course, was great for my learning style.
It was a quick course that put it into digestible, digestible format with live examples and showed
you really a great passive investing strategy that utilizes that wheel strategy and buying.
Or I'm sorry, more selling on the options side.
So again, just thought it worth mentioning before we jumped forward that these can be also good indicators
to play on the options.
And if you want to learn more about those, I think there's a, you know, a world of courses out there
that can help you understand options and not just the securities trading.
With that, let's go ahead and jump into our section where we will begin to explore deeper the API integration
with specifically in this course, alpaca.
Some of these are going to be applicable to other brokers as well, but we're going to stick with the
alpaca for this.
So I hope everybody is excited to jump into that section.