Thanks for your reply. The reason I asked is none of the technical analysis worked for me. They worked well when I used them to back test. Going live they are not reliable at all.
Just my 2 cents: Many books teach that you need to select wisely the right strategy for the right scenario currently appearing to you! An alternative approach would be that you need to choose and focus on a minimal number of safe strategies to match the reliable risk/reward scenarios indicated/produced in your trading system. Options can be a very complicate and risky instrument, afaik, therefore not too many traders, I would guess, are able to manage safely all options strategies that can be found in those books. Being both a good seller and a good buyer of options at the same time, to trade all market scenarios, would be a very touch challenge to many traders! Must be very focus and knowledgeable - as a minimum requirement! Good luck!
There's another side to seeing the bigger picture. Most people, actually all of us to some degree, carry our beliefs with us when we look at the markets. Until we break through our conditioning, we really don't see what is in front of us, rather a concept, a derivative of the actual thing which is itself in constant motion beneath the surface. Until the thinking mind which is usually living in the past or future gets turned off, true perception is impossible.