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08/31/2026

Cheap stocks come with cheap options. That's the tax on being patient.

One broke that rule today. Under 10x forward earnings. IV Rank 76. Two edges on one ticker, and that almost never happens.

Full trade on Patreon, including the scenario that hurts.

08/28/2026

Every position in your options portfolio is the same bet.

Index, single names, whatever you're selling. One bad week and it all moves together.

Today I put on a trade with a beta-weighted delta of 0.00. Live Cattle.

The guy on the other side is a farmer protecting his herd. He needs a price floor. I sell him the floor. What he pays me has nothing to do with the stock market and never will.

Cattle take 18 to 22 months to grow. Nobody prints more of them by Friday, so this market moves in ranges instead of gaps. That's why I trade agriculture.

If you sell options only on stocks, you're leaving that premium on the table. Full trade in today's article.

08/26/2026

reports after the close tonight. The options market is pricing a $280 billion swing on one print, and it sets positioning across the AI complex for weeks.

A NVDA 210 call expiring Friday costs 5.90. The same strike expiring Monday costs 6.25. Three extra days for 35 cents.

Friday's line is at 99.2% IV. Monday's is at 67.9%. Both own tonight's earnings, but one charges double for it.

My full structure is on the Patreon. Strikes, greeks, breakevens, and the risk nobody mentions. Link in comments.

08/24/2026

Everything moved against me at once: Microsoft dropped -26%, gold corrected -30%, silver got crushed -55%, oil spiked.

Those were my largest exposures. My portfolio still crossed $2,000,000.

New video walks through the whole mess, link's in the comments.

08/21/2026

There is something strange in the volatility surface of that lets you build risk-free trades whose payoff never drops below zero at expiration.

Almost every stock has put skew. Downside options cost more than upside options the same distance away, because everyone who owns stock buys protection.

runs the other way. The upside is the expensive side.

A risk-free options structure normally pays you the risk-free rate and stops there. That part is rho, the only Greek left once the risk is gone. Here the skew and the convexity of the surface pay on top of it, for as long as the shape holds.

I put the position on today. Worst case it makes $64. Best case it returns 27% a year on the buying power, all risk-free.

Every leg and every fill in today's article.

08/19/2026

I sold a Big Lizard in this morning, and no matter how high it goes, I still get paid.

DRAM went zero to $10B in 7 weeks, a pace only the biggest Bitcoin and gold launches have matched. I went through the holdings file: 3 companies are 70% of this memory chip fund, and it's paying 74.6% implied volatility.

Almost nobody trades a Big Lizard. Full trade structure in today's article. Link in the first comment.

08/18/2026

"Why so few trade ideas lately?" - got that question again this week.

We were sitting in the most toxic environment a premium seller can face. and at yearly lows. And I don't force trades.

80% of this job is waiting with patience for real asymmetry and managing what's already on. That's it.

This morning the market finally handed us something worth taking. Two new ideas are up, one for a full book and one sized for a smaller account, plus the number that decided which goes where.

Link in first comment.

08/14/2026

Did you know we also run a free Facebook group for active options traders?

1,000 of you found it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/932380041774574

That number means more to me than it probably should. Thank you for staying for the real trade mechanics instead of the hype. The next thousand get the same thing: real numbers, still free.

08/12/2026

Today we're in the most toxic environment to sell volatility.

/ just hit 6.

I went back through the research on this ratio. Above 6, systematic S&P premium selling has run negative across 10 years of data.

So today I'm doing something I don't usually do. Two calendars, both positive theta and positive vega, so if this ratio is right and volatility expands, my profit zone gets wider while I get paid to wait.

Full breakdown, screenshots, and both structures are in the article. Link in the comments.

08/11/2026

Most traders treat an earnings report as one event on one date.

I stopped doing that this year. A report is three separate volatility regimes stacked on one stock. The run-up into it, the print itself and the crush afterwards each pay a different Greek, so each one gets its own trade.

In the fund we now run all three as one campaign. I am publishing every step as it happens, including the marks that make my own research look silly.

Link in the first comment.

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