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Poor Man’s Covered Calls (PMCCs) use LEAPS to replace expensive stock positions, reducing capital needs by 65 to 85%. Learn how this strategy generates consistent income with flexibility and lower risk.
Learn how The Wheel Strategy can boost your portfolio with cash-secured puts and covered calls for steady income and lowered risk.
Explore the in-depth, quantitative approach to the best strikes, probabilities, and setups for earnings trades: learn the mechanics of the high-probability approach.
Delta Hedging Explained: A Pro Trader’s Guide to Neutralizing Risk and Maximizing Stability
Long-term success trading options through statistical consistency
Sometimes the most important investment breakthroughs come from the most unexpected places.
Three bearish options strategies to hedge a long portfolio, put spreads, bear call spreads, and VIX call spreads, with realistic examples and practical management rules.
A practical PMCC management playbook covering LEAPS selection, short call rules, roll triggers, dividend-related assignment risk, and the sizing discipline that keeps capital efficiency from becoming concentration risk.
A plain-English guide to bull put and bear call credit spreads, how they work, how they pay, how they break, and how to manage them with discipline.
New Position - Bull Put Spread
Learn how to use ratio spreads for options income. Complete guide with real AAPL and SPY examples, payoff tables, risk management rules, and when to deploy this professional-grade strategy.
Small Dogs Portfolio
All-Weather Portfolio
Growth Portfolio (Pick-of-the-Cycle)
Growth Portfolio
Why selling calls against every LEAPS position may be costing you money. A practical guide to the ratio PMCC strategy for GLD, balancing options income with upside exposure.
