This is a page to help all new people to learn about all of the available resources that we use to find positions to trade.
Preface: Options are risky as hell. Trading cheap stocks is also a great way to increase your portfolio without the instance risk of options. However, risk always equals reward. If you still want to trade options, using Options Strategies can be a great way to hedge your risk. Check out this article
Noteworthy strategies:
This is the place where I find almost all of my trades, besides $SPY(obv.). If you go to the landing page > Screener, then change the current volume setting to "Over 1M" which will weed out all of the companies with little to no volume. In order to make money trading options, you need liquidity.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/
This place is usually full of extremely toxic people, but is a very good resource to learn terminology or comment and get voted down to hell when you don't actually know what you are talking about. It's a great place to test your knowledge to see if you can survive the ultimate comment karma test and see a plethora of loss/gain porn from peoples positions. I used this early on for inspiration.
https://www.investing.com/indices/indices-futures
This is the website that I use to chart overnight future prices. These are also live price updating and even has a chat room you can stalk to listen to people talk while the market is moving to gauge overall sentiment of the market. This is what I use to watch asian markets overnight, UK markets in the morning, and then US futures, commodities(gold, silver, nat.gas), and even bond prices. Very useful to have a free live price viewer not behind a pay wall.
https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BmATTJ0Z/
This is the website that I use to chart out movement during the day. All pricing here is LIVE and if you follow the link provided above it has all of the settings pre-loaded into the chart so you can check out your company that you are interested in. This is an hour time interval chart. So each candle represent an hour of price movement. You can change the time frame in the top left from 1hr to 5 min, 1 day, etc. We will have a workshop here soon to teach people pattern recognition and candle analysis to help you find entries and exits better.
If you aren't ready yet for yeeting away thousands of dollars you can always resort to paper trading options. This will give you the option to trade using paper money (monopoly) money to learn how to enter and exit trades, before you start Yolo'ing your real money into the market and not even know how to get out of the market. There are several resources to do this, you can literally write your positions down on a piece of paper, or use Think or Swims account from TD Ameritrade that you can sign up for.
ThinkorSwim - TD Ameritrade (Stocks and Options) WeBull (Stocks Only)
Check out this article for a number of other trading platforms that support options if that's the business you're into: https://www.benzinga.com/money/paper-trading-options/