If you’re serious about becoming a consistently successful options trader, there’s one truth you simply can’t ignore: learning how to adjust options trades is essential.
Options trading isn’t just about entering good trades — it’s about how you respond when the market moves against you. Without the ability to adjust, you’re stuck hoping for the best. With the right adjustments, you can stay in control.
At Dorian Trader, we teach that there are three foundational trade adjustments every options trader should master. These are the adjustments that turn reactive trading into strategic trading — and they’re the difference between blowing up your account and building long-term consistency.
Let’s break them down.
The Roll Up Adjustment is one of the simplest — and most powerful — tools in your trading toolbox. It’s step one in learning how to adjust options. It involves moving your short strike prices higher (for calls) or lower (for puts) as the market moves in your favor, all while collecting a net credit.
Why is a net credit so important? Because it not only gives you more room for profit but also reduces risk and helps maintain positive expectancy over time.
The beauty of the Roll Up Adjustment is that it allows you to stay flexible and opportunistic. Done correctly, this adjustment not only defends your position but enhances it.
At Dorian Trader, we emphasize that this adjustment should always be done for a net credit — no exceptions. This discipline keeps your edge intact and builds long-term consistency.
What happens when the market turns against you?
That’s where the Roll Away Adjustment comes in. This strategy involves repositioning your entire trade — usually to further-out-of-the-money strikes — to give your setup more room to breathe.
Yes, it’s often done for a net debit, but smart traders know how to work this cost into the bigger picture.
Pair the Roll Away with a Roll Up to offset the debit. This combination often results in a net credit overall and a significantly improved position — something we break down step-by-step in our Trading Club strategy sessions.
This isn’t about giving up — it’s about upgrading your position. At Dorian Trader, we teach our members how to combine this with delta and structure analysis to trade defensively without going passive.
Time decay can work for you — but when it’s working against you, it’s time to consider the Roll Out Adjustment.
Rolling out means moving the trade into a later expiration cycle, buying yourself more time for the trade to work. But at Dorian Trader, we teach a more advanced twist — the Repositioning Roll Out.
It’s not just about giving yourself time — it’s about rebuilding the trade entirely:
You’re not just rolling out… you’re rolling forward with purpose.
We walk our members through real Roll Out examples every week inside the Trading Club, so they gain the reps needed to turn this from theory into instinct. Done correctly, rolling out isn’t about “hoping” things will get better — it’s about engineering a smarter position with better odds.
Let’s be real: you can’t predict the market — but you can manage your trades. That’s the power of these three core adjustments. They help you turn:
They provide a framework for managing trades like a professional — not just when things go well, but especially when they don’t. If you’ve ever had a trade go against you and not known what to do, you know just how important it is to learn to adjust options trades.
At Dorian Trader, we don’t teach gimmicks or guesswork. We teach core principles and repeatable systems that give traders the confidence and consistency they need to succeed — even when the market gets rough.
If your goal is to go from good to great in your trading journey, mastering these three adjustments is non-negotiable.
They offer flexibility. They offer control. Most importantly — they give you staying power.
Great traders aren’t the ones who get every trade right. They’re the ones who know what to do when things go wrong.
And these three adjustments — Roll Up, Roll Away, and Roll Out — are how they do it.
At Dorian Trader, we help traders of all levels get started, improve and, ultimately, make more money with options.
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