Mark Wolfinger
Mark Wolfinger has decades of experience as an options trader and a market maker. As a writer of numerous magazine articles and books, he targets beginners and includes essential topics such as how options work and how to select and manage six different conservative options strategies. Wolfinger actively trades options contracts on his account as he continues to assist readers interested in becoming option traders themselves, through seminars, mentoring, and his regular blog posts.
Mark Wolfinger Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Market Maker
Academic History
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PhD, Chemistry
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Bachelor of Science
- Wolfinger is a professional options trader since 1975.
- He was an options market maker at the CBOE for over two decades
- While at CBOE, he used strategies including writing covered calls and naked puts, selling put credit spreads and trading iron condors.
- He has been teaching individual investors on how to adopt risk-reducing, profit-enhancing option strategies.
- He has published at least three books.
- He writes about options trading on his blog, options for Rookies, as well as for Forbes, MarketWatch, the Balance.com, StockTrader.com, and many other online financial sites.