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🧠 Mental Capital: How the Greatest Traders Overcome Losses

🧠 Mental Capital: How the Greatest Traders Overcome Losses

The best traders in history aren’t defined by winning streaks, they’re defined by how they survive losses. Learn the mental frameworks, risk rules, and psychological resilience that protect both capital and confidence.

Options 101: What Is a Protective Put?

Options 101: What Is a Protective Put?

The insurance policy every stock investor should understand. Learn what a protective put is, how it caps downside while keeping upside open, and why it’s one of the most important risk management tools in options trading.

Andrew Crowder
The Hidden Risk Options Traders Rarely See: Surviving the Sequence

The Hidden Risk Options Traders Rarely See: Surviving the Sequence

Most options traders fail not because they lack an edge, but because they can’t survive losing streaks. Discover how sequence risk works, why it ruins traders, and how to protect yourself.

📚 Educational Corner: Managing a Losing Cash-Secured Put (CSP): A Professional Trader’s Guide

📚 Educational Corner: Managing a Losing Cash-Secured Put (CSP): A Professional Trader’s Guide

Learn how to manage a losing cash-secured put (CSP) like a professional trader. Explore rolling, assignment strategies, risk controls, and when to walk away. A step-by-step guide for smarter options income.

Eight Practical Ways to Hedge Your Poor Man’s Covered Calls

Eight Practical Ways to Hedge Your Poor Man’s Covered Calls

Andrew Crowder
The Hidden Correlations: Why Your Options Portfolio Isn’t as Diversified as You Think

The Hidden Correlations: Why Your Options Portfolio Isn’t as Diversified as You Think

Why More Tickers Don’t Equal Less Risk, and the Framework Professionals Use to Truly Diversify

Andrew Crowder
📚 Educational Corner: The Hedge Fund Manager's Guide to Portfolio Protection

📚 Educational Corner: The Hedge Fund Manager's Guide to Portfolio Protection

How Professionals Use Options to Protect Portfolios from the Unexpected

🧠 Mental Capital: The Seven Pitfalls That Derail Options Traders (And the Habits That Prevent Them)

🧠 Mental Capital: The Seven Pitfalls That Derail Options Traders (And the Habits That Prevent Them)

The Habits That Separate Survivors from Casualties in Options

The Autumn Gauntlet: Why August, September (...and October?) Challenge Markets Most

The Autumn Gauntlet: Why August, September (...and October?) Challenge Markets Most

And How Smart Options Strategies Can Shield Your Portfolio When Euphoria Meets Reality

Hedged Equity, Without the Shares: Can LEAPS and Options Lower Volatility and Boost Efficiency?

Hedged Equity, Without the Shares: Can LEAPS and Options Lower Volatility and Boost Efficiency?

Why Option-Based Equity Portfolios Might Be the Missing Middle Ground for Investors

From Options Gambling to Statistical Profits: Law of Large Numbers Method

From Options Gambling to Statistical Profits: Law of Large Numbers Method

Long-term success trading options through statistical consistency

Mental Capital: Van Tharp’s Most Overlooked Lesson - Why Position Sizing Is the Strategy

Mental Capital: Van Tharp’s Most Overlooked Lesson - Why Position Sizing Is the Strategy