This week the ledger arrives in full, and the timing is almost funny: the biggest loser in the book just had its best week of the year. The research on why that combination is dangerous is the whole lesson.
Six steps to placing your first cash-secured put, from confirming cash and stock suitability through placing the limit order and managing the position. Full walkthrough included.
Signals say a market might move. Setups give you repeatable edge. The three filters premium sellers use, with a worked iron condor on a real panic scenario.
Learn how to use the expected move to select strike prices for cash-secured puts and covered calls. Formulas, a worked example, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Closing Two Trades for Profits
Protective puts, spreads, and tail overlays for a PMCC, plus the research on when hedging helps and when a smaller position beats it.
Closing the XOM Bull Put Spread for a Profit
Rolling Two Positions
Retail traders lost about $2 billion on options in under two years. What the research shows, and the quiet statistical edge that actually works.
The market melted up 3.5%, the VIX fell below where it started the year, and the brand-new SPY condor is already more tested than BABA ever was. The dials are running.
Dutch Bros delivered nearly twice the move the options priced, the put is heading toward assignment at a basis we named in June, and the uranium fund fired the opposite way in the same week.
The Argument Flipped in Five Sessions. Breadth Surged From 51.67 to 61.43. The Sell Zone Shrank to Four. The Buy Zone Swelled to Fourteen. The VIX Closed at 14.90, and the Pay Is Gone.
