$137K Profit in January – My Conservative Options Portfolio Update Dear Traders, consistency beats hype. While $SPY is up 2.7% YTD and $QQQ is up 1.66%, my conservative short premium portfolio locked in +9.75% YTD and $137K in gains. Why? ✅ Selling premium where the edge is ✅

Let's be honest about the current market. We are not being blessed with clean short-premium opportunities. Implied volatility is compressed. Realized is low. And option sellers are taking risk for very little reward. Historically, this is exactly when traders get hurt: - Low

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My Personal 2026 Market Playbook as an Options Seller and Hedge Fund Manager As we start 2026, I want to share a few very personal market views and investment ideas I'm going to actively explore this year. This is not a recommendation and not a directional forecast. It's simply

Yesterday, December 31st, was Warren Buffett's final day as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. What almost nobody talks about, he was also one of the largest option sellers in market history. Yes! He was one of us! I broke down exactly how he used options on the OptionsJive blog. One

Silver has gone completely parabolic. Panic-driven price action, IV Rank around 145, the highest I've ever seen! Our $SLV call ratio spread is now under pressure. Short calls are breached. For many traders, this is where fear takes over. For me, this is where options trading

Here are 3 options trading lessons the market hammered into me this year: 1. One violation of a trading plan in the April tariff crash turned a potentially record year into a 7-month recovery. A plan is law, not a suggestion. Full recovery live on my YouTube. 2. "Stay small" is

Just published a powerful new $SPX trade for the current low-volatility environment. It's called a #Flyagonal. One of my favorite option structures and one of the most effective ways I know to trade when the market gives no clear direction. In both backtests and real trading,

#BREAKING: The Fed cuts rates by 25 bps. Policy rate now 3.50-3.75%. Options traders should pay attention now. #Fed #FOMC #macro #markets #volatility #options

Trump just opened a trade in $NFLX. After the stock split, $NFLX is finally tradeable again; tight spreads, low buying power, and small/medium accounts can actually build proper structures. Then Trump pushed back on the Warner Bros. deal… and the options market panicked. Put

$CRM reports after the bell, and the setup is actually fascinating. The stock sits around $235, down 36% from highs and 30% YTD. Growth has slowed, but fundamentals aren't broken. They're just… less sexy. IV is pricing a 7-8% move, skew is modest, and this is exactly the type

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7 months. That's how long it took me to recover after the April Tariffs crash, even with a diversified short-volatility portfolio. And honestly, it came down to one mistake I made. One decision that probably stretched my recovery by months. Just uploaded the November 2025

Today is #BlackFriday. And here's the truth nobody in this industry will tell you. No offer. No discount. Nothing to sell. Every brand is shouting about deals today. Traders shouldn't. Black Friday works because people chase bargains when they have no edge. Option traders

This Thanksgiving I'm grateful for 3 things every option seller relies on: 1) #Volatility: the engine behind every premium we collect. 2) #Liquidity: the quiet hero that makes clean trading even possible. 3) #Probabilities: the Gaussian backbone that keeps us grounded. But most

Rotation finally gave a clean read: $XLV strong → slowing / $XLE weak → recovering. So I'm expressing that divergence as a simple pairs structure: 1) $XLE snapback (defined-risk): 88/91C debit spread Jan 16 - mean-revert to 90–92 and it pays fast. 2) $XLV exhaustion play:

A quick summary of my trading last week: Volatility spiked, the market traded blind without macro data, one Fed comment completely reshuffled rate-cut odds… and despite all of that, monthly OpEx on Friday still ended up being a clean premium paycheck. But a few things stood out

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🚨 Emergency Note: How to Recover Buying Power Fast (2 Proven Techniques) $1 trillion just got wiped out from U.S. equities, and another $120 billion evaporated from crypto overnight. The Fear & Greed Index is flashing extreme fear. Traders don't blow up because of losses, they

From a busboy at Denny's to saving the stock market. Believe in something. $NVDA