What $986.70 actually buys

Last May, on this newsletter's first anniversary, I shared what I was building for 2026: webinars, structured courses, video lessons, and a private community. A group of founding members believed in it enough to fund the build that same week. On September 21, their bet pays off for all of us: the new website, the community hub, the webinars, the video library, and new portfolios inside Wealth Without Shares and The Implied Perspective (including a new SPX portfolio), with courses/classes arriving late fall. I don't say this kind of thing often, but I am genuinely proud of what The Option Premium has become, and I've never been more excited about where it goes from here. Friday's email laid out what's launching, so I won't repeat myself here. If you missed it, it's worth two minutes: Friday's email.

Today is about something Friday couldn't show you. Anyone can list what comes with a membership. What matters is what lands in your inbox each week, and what you do differently because of it: a 25-year professional options trader walking you through the options market in plain English, with real positions, real strategies, real money on the line, and a real answer when you're unsure. That's what this email is for.

What you actually get

Every trade alert is written out in full. Not a one-line "sell the 30 delta put" with a ticker and a price, but the full thinking behind the position. Why the underlying, why the strike, why the expiration, why now. What the probability of profit looks like, what the risk profile is, where the breakeven sits, and what I will do if the trade moves against me before it works. Every opening alert has a defined plan for every outcome. Every closing alert explains the math behind the exit, including the trades that lose money. Especially those.

Each service also delivers its own curated weekly watchlist, built from the analysis I do every week to find the best probability-based setups across the market. The Implied Perspective publishes an IV Rank leaderboard and Premium Selling Scorecard, ranking the underlyings where the volatility risk premium is most attractive for credit spreads, iron condors, and VIX hedges. The Income Foundation publishes the Wheel watchlist, screened for the cash-secured put and covered call setups with the strongest probability profile for income. Wealth Without Shares publishes the PMCC watchlist, sorted by the underlyings best suited for Poor Man's Covered Calls across the All-Weather, Small Dogs, and Growth allocations.

The watchlists are not just lists. Each comes with the context for why those underlyings made it through the screen, what to look for when you evaluate them, and how they fit the strategy, so you are never sitting on cash wondering where to look next.

Underneath the alerts and the watchlists sits two years of educational work: research and strategy reports on the Greeks, volatility, LEAPS, premium selling, beta-weighted delta, and the rest of the machinery professional traders actually use. All of it is in the archive. All of it is included. And on September 21, the courses, webinars, videos, and community are built on top of it.

And here is the part that does not show up on any feature list. I write every word myself. No content team, no ghostwriters, no rotating cast of contributors. When you reply to an email, I read it and respond, usually within a day. When you ask a question about a trade, you get an answer from the person who put the trade on. That has been true from the first issue, and the new platform doesn't change it. It just gives us more ways to engage.

But what readers say matters more than what I say about myself, so here it is in their own words: testimonials.

What I owe you before you decide

Join Total Access before September 21 for $986.70 per year instead of $1,495, grandfathered for the life of your annual subscription. If I raise rates next year, or in five years, your price never moves.

And yes, that number is slightly below the $995 I quoted on Friday. Here's why, along with the rest of what I owe you straight. In May I ran what I said would be the only sale I would ever run, and when readers who missed the window asked, I reopened it briefly in June. I said it would not return. I am going back on that, once, with my eyes open, because the readership has grown dramatically since spring, and it did not sit right with me that most of you never had the chance the earliest readers got.

I could have built a new, higher rate for this final round. I decided the last 100 seats should get the exact same founding rate the May members locked, down to the penny. Slightly better than I promised you Friday, never worse. That's the principle I can actually keep: the people who trust me early get the best deal I ever offer, and nobody who comes later gets a better one. After September 21, the price is $1,495, and this grandfathered rate never appears again.

If now is not the right time, that is genuinely fine. The free newsletter continues exactly as it has. You'll hear from me once more today with the regular Sunday issue, and again tomorrow answering the questions readers have sent in. After that, your inbox goes back to its usual quiet. I have a profound respect for your inbox, and I intend to keep earning it. If you have a question in the meantime, hit reply. I read and answer every one, and I'd love to hear from you.

Probabilities over predictions,

Andy