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I retired at 31 doing this
Step 1. Build your base.
$40k VOO. $40k Q. $20k high conviction companies near intrinsic value.
This is your foundation & your collateral.
Step 2. Sell 1+ year portfolio secured puts.
Quality companies only.
Moat.
Pricing power.
Good valuation.
Collect the premium.
Pay zero margin interest.
Step 3. Redeploy every dollar of premium.
More shares.
LEAPS on your highest conviction names.
Never let it sit as cash.
Step 4. Keep ratios in check.
Always know your 7-day liquidity.
A 40% crash should not keep you up at night.
That is it.
No day trading.
No covered calls.
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If you put $2,000 into Micron $MU in 2010, you would be rich today.
Well...
Let’s play it out if you somehow did nothing & held until right now.
You would have about $3,250 by the end of 2015
and did nothing
Then watched that $3,250 climb to about $13,200 by the 2018 peak
and still did nothing
Then watched $13,200 get cut almost in half to about $7,300 in the late 2018 crash
and still did nothing
Then watched $7,300 rip to about $21,400 at the November 2021 peak
and still did nothing
Then watched $21,400 collapse to about $11,600 at the September 2022 bottom
and still did nothing
Then watched
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I THINK COVERED CALLS ARE ONE OF THE MOST OVERRATED STRATEGIES ONLINE.
Everyone acts like they found free income.
But what are you really doing?
You keep the downside.
You cap the upside.
You collect a small premium.
Then if the stock rips, you are mad because you capped the exact thing you owned the stock for.
That does not mean covered calls never make sense.
But on great companies I want to compound for years?
I am very careful.
I am not trying to cap my best winners for lunch money...
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Discord is down right now.
If you can’t post the server or see my messages, that’s why!
Should be fixed very soon today!
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A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE LONG TERM INVESTORS UNTIL THE STOCK GOES DOWN.
Then all of a sudden they become macro experts.
The Fed.
Inflation.
Jobs data.
Recession.
Election.
Oil.
China.
Iran.
Anything they can find to justify selling...
Sometimes the thesis changed.
Most of the time they are just scared.
That is why I always go back to the business.
Is EPS still growing?
Is revenue still growing?
Is the moat still there?
Is the valuation still reasonable?
If yes, I am not letting a red chart convince me out of a good setup.
The market will be volatile & not always be rational in the short t
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MOST PEOPLE DO OPTIONS SO BACKWARDS IT'S INSANE...
They open the options chain.
They look for the biggest premium.
Then they try to justify the company after.
That is completely backwards...
I do not care if the premium is juicy if it's a bad company/bad valuation.
I do not care if the trade looks safe if the potential assignment would get my risk management ratios out of whack.
The company comes first.
The valuation comes second.
The premium comes last.
That one shift alone would save people from so many horrible trades.
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I make about $29k a month with options.
NO Day trading
NO Swing trading
NO Covered calls
NO Cash secured puts
NO BS
INSTEAD, I DO THIS:
Build base portfolio
Sell portfolio secured puts (not cash secured)
Buy LEAPS with the premium from sold puts
BUY shares with the premium from sold puts
Keep ratios in check
I can explain it to a 13 year old & I will likely outperform 95% of people that read this.
Simple wins.
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THE MARKET DOES NOT NEED TO CRASH TO RUIN YOU.
All it has to do is bore you.
That is where a lot of people mess up.
They buy a good company.
It goes sideways for a few months.
Nothing exciting happens.
Another stock starts ripping.
Their patience runs out.
They sell the good company to chase the hot one.
Then 2 months later, the original stock finally moves.
This is why most people do so bad...
It's usually not because they had a bad stock pick.
But because they didn't give time for the thesis to play out.
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THE MARKET WILL ALWAYS GIVE YOU A REASON TO WAIT...
Rates are too high.
Inflation is too sticky.
The election is coming.
Earnings might slow.
The Fed might mess up.
Stocks already ran too much.
There is always something...
That is why most people sit in cash way too long.
They are waiting for a market that feels safe.
But the market usually feels safest after the opportunity is already gone.
I am not saying blindly buy anything.
But more money was lost preparing for crashes than what was actually lost in the crash itself.
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THE REASON MOST PEOPLE FAIL IN THE STOK MARKET...
They keep treating investing like entertainment.
They want action.
They want alerts.
They want predictions.
They want new trades even day.
They want something exciting to talk about.
How to really win?
Buying good companies
Buy when they are undervalued
Letting EPS grow.
Letting time work for the thesis to play out
Holding through ugly periods.
Not blowing yourself up with leverage.
Not panic selling because your account is red.
Keep it simple.
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COVERED CALLS ARE A MAJOR TRAP!
You are capping your upside.
You are keeping most of the downside.
You are selling away the best part of owning a great company... THE UPSIDE!
That is why I do not love covered calls on companies I actually want to own long term.
The whole point of owning great stocks is to participate in the upside...
Why would I sell that away for a little income?
Income feels good.
But capped upside can quietly cost you a fortune.
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Buy great companies for less than they are worth.
Give time for EPS to grow.
Do 1+ year options.
Keep ratios in check.
That’s the secret.
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SELLING PUTS IS NOT ABOUT COLLECTING PREMIUM.
That is how beginners think.
I do not sell puts just because the premium looks good.
I care about the company.
I care about intrinsic value.
I care about assignment value.
I care about my liquidity.
I care about what happens if the stock drops way below my strike.
The premium is not the strategy.
The premium is the payment for taking a risk I already understand.
If you would panic owning the shares, you probably should not be selling the put.
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MOST PEOPLE THINK A STOCK DROPPING 30% MEANS THEY WERE WRONG.
Not always.
Sometimes it means the business broke.
Sometimes it means earnings are falling.
Sometimes it means the thesis is dead.
But sometimes it just means the market is emotional and impatient.
This is why I do not ask one question.
I ask several.
Did EPS grow?
Did revenue grow?
Did margins hold up?
Did guidance improve?
Is the moat still there?
Is the valuation better now?
If the business got better and the stock got cheaper, that is not always a problem.
Sometimes that is literally the opportunity.
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I MAKE ABOUT $30K A MONTH WITH OPTIONS AND I STILL THINK MOST PEOPLE SHOULD NOT TOUCH OPTIONS YET.
That probably sounds weird.
But it is true.
If you cannot handle a red day in $VOO, you definitely cannot handle assignment on a sold put.
If you do not understand valuation, you should not be choosing strike prices.
If you do not understand position sizing, premium will seduce you into blowing up.
Options are not magic.
They are leverage, time, probability, and risk all wrapped together.
Used right, they are powerful.
Used wrong, they are the fastest way to find out you were never an investor...
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THE STOCK MARKET IS NOT CONFUSING.
People just make it confusing...
Buy great companies.
Buy them at fair or cheap prices.
Do not over leverage yourself.
Do not chase trash because it is going up.
Do not panic sell because CNBC found a scary chart.
Let earnings growth do the heavy lifting
(stocks follow earnings in long run)
Guess what... it's boring.
But boring is usually where the money is.
& that's what we are all here for right...
MONEY
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THE WORST INVESTORS ALWAYS WANT THE MOST ACTION.
They want trades.
They want alerts.
They want entries.
They want exits.
They want 10 plays a day.
But wealth is usually built through boredom.
Buying great assets.
Holding through volatility.
Letting earnings grow.
Letting time work.
Not touching every button in your account like it is a video game.
The market does not pay you for being busy.
It pays you for being right and having the patience to let it play out.
This is also why I ONLY do 1+ year option contracts. Give the thesis time to play out!
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A FEW RED DAYS/MONTHS DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE WRONG...
This is where MANY investors get destroyed.
They think price confirms correctness.
Stock up means good decision.
Stock down means bad decision.
A stock can drop after good news.
A bad company can rip higher.
A great company can stay undervalued for months.
Short term prices are fear/greed.
Long term price is fundamentals.
If you do not understand that, the market will bully you out of every good investment you ever make!
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If I won 10 million bucks tomorrow, I would immediately do this:
$4m in
$VOO
$4m in
$Q

$2m in single stocks.
- Sell puts with strikes 10% below the current prices assuming the stock is near intrinsic value.
-1 year durations.
-Reinvest the put premiums back into more shares.
-Portfolio secured, not cash secured.
- Keep ratios in check to be fine in any volatility.
This is the exact system scaled me to millions, and it can scale you too.
KEEP IT SIMPLE GUYS
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