How The ITM Strategy Works
Discover the simple ITM options strategy in In The Money: Bull & Bear Markets.
The weekly ITM Blog shows how it plays out in real markets. The ITM Hub backs it up with charts, podcasts, videos, quizzes and backtesting.
The ITM Approach
No prediction. No guesswork. Simple rules.
Clear decisions. No screen-watching.
No margin calls – ever.
ITM is built to work with the market – not fight it.
Backtested
33 years
6 X market
return
Invested
in 1993
Market result
2025
ITM result
2025
In The Money: Bull & Bear Markets
• Options Trading
• Derivatives Trading
• Trading Analysis & Strategy
31 ★★★★★ reviews
“I tried everything else – this works.”
“No nonsense options strategy.”
“Finally a strategy that actually works!”
“FANTASTIC!! Simple rules based strategy, no BS, no wizardry. Proven track record.”
The ITM Blog
Don’t start your week without the ITM Blog. Every Monday before the market opens.
When Your Broker Becomes The Risk There have been reports from some traders that TastyTrade has set SPYG to closing only – in other words, you can sell any positions you have, but you can’t open any new ones. Their explanation: low priced, illiquid symbols used for fraud. Breathe. This
Choosing Options. Three golden crosses – these bulls are pretty excited. An 11% rise in 13 trading days (open 31 Mar: $639; close 17 Apr: $710). That’s a fast bull run if ever I saw one. As I said last week, it makes me twitchy. Not “regression to the mean”
What a week to publish a book! Could there be worse timing? The SPY golden cross has been confirmed, and that is our IN signal. Yes, we will be buying in at a higher price than we sold. Not ideal – the ITM OUT signal gets us out early if
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We follow the ITM trades for 33 years.
Every single trade is listed. No cherry-picking.
The good trades, the bad trades, the boring trades.
No smoke, no mirrors.
The result?
ITM beat the market and fund managers spectacularly.
Hi, I’m Heather, author of In The Money. I’ve been trading the stock market for over 25 years and know what works – and what doesn’t.
After years of making and losing money, I developed the ITM (In The Money) strategy – a simple way to beat the market, across both bull and bear conditions.
Learn the ITM strategy in my new book, check out the charts and resources in the ITM Hub, then follow the weekly ITM blog where I show how to implement it and answer readers questions – all free, no membership required.
The complete ITM strategy – for both bull and bear markets.
Different approaches, same principles.
The ITM Hub is a free companion to the book, bringing together charts, audio, visuals and quizzes to help you understand and apply the ITM strategy.
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