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If I like where my portfolio is when $TSLA is at $400, I don’t mind selling calls there. Whatever my number is, I find a date out in time where the premium actually makes sense. Say your number is $550. The weekly and monthly 550s likely aren’t worth trading with the close date and low premium. Premium is too thin. You might have to look out a 6 months to a year. Then I check open interest and daily volume on that contract. You’ll see more activity around 400, 420, 450, 500, 600, 700, 800 with $tsla. Whole numbers are what people pick, so the volume is usually better. Don’t sell a random 535 call with no volume. If you’re going to play this game, set up win-win situations. Either you make a little on calls at a strike you don’t mind selling a few shares at. Or those lots get challenged, you let them go or manage them, and that’s when I start selling more on other lots. At that point the overall portfolio should look really good. Especially if you’re heavily allocated in the stock you’re doing this on. Now prepping for a Michelin star restaurant tonight. Why not. Guest we had onboard said to find a 'nice restaurant' and I followed directions.

I heard that some of you here are doing this NNN challenge. So how about i make it bit harder *giggles* I wonder what would happen if i just *wiggles ass* do this. Aww is your friend throbbing~ how cute and you cant do nothing about it

I'm offering Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan of the I've Had It Podcast an opportunity to prove themselves right. They said that homeschooling is for "dumb people" who, for some reason, want to be around their kids. So, LET’S PUT IT TO THE TEST. If homeschoolers are taught by a bunch of weird, dumb parents, it should be EASY for you to outsmart them. I challenge you to debate a 15-year-old homeschooled kid from my audience. I'll host it live on my show. It should be an easy win, right?

Every investment decision I've ever made has been informed by a Excel spreadsheet. A financial model that serves as a business simulation and a translation layer between research & insight. The model ultimately is a place to quantify my variant perception and quantify the downside if I am wrong, the two critical pillars of any good public market investment thesis. One of my PM friends says his analysts spend all day with "their noses in models", identifying and researching the hinge variables in a business. This is the game of alpha generation, simple not easy. A cornerstone of the hedge fund interview process is the modeling test, and hedge funds routinely hire ex bankers & private equity for this skill. (A certain hedge fund founder is rumored to have fired analysts who tried to repurpose sell-side models as their own.) When you peel back the onion on Tier 1 fundamental research process, four years since the Chat GPT 3.5 moment, AI adoption is slow & uneven with the median investment process far from transformed (despite an exceptional amount of tokens burned...). Why is that? To me, it's simple. The "bar to impress" a public equity investor with AI has to start with the financial model architecture as the nerve center of the investment process. Almost every AI workflow for investors I've seen is a "hey this is sort of interesting", but not a "you will take this from me over my dead body" workflow. An agent that can summarize your morning inbox well is convenient but won't bend the curve of alpha. An automated, auditable, full-stack research system built around an architecture of Excel models that can help me do the rigor and depth of investment research in 3 days that used to take me 3 weeks? That changes everything. Financial modeling as the foundational layer in that workflow, the critical unlock to truly enact a full end to end research & risk system. Yes, it is productivity, but ultimately it is more about speed to insight and surfacing the right insight to the decision maker at the right time (this is what great analysts do). "But judgment will still sit with the PM, right?" What is investment judgment if not gathering and weighing as many unique insights about a business as possible then continuously comparing that view to market implied expectations? "Brett, but won't modeling move to JSON?". I've heard selective instance of that. Perhaps eventually. But Excel is just this beautiful, auditable, sharable, trusted substrate on Wall Street. It won't die a quick death. The challenge investors have of reinventing their investment process while running risk is materially different than software engineers adopting coding agents. Until September 22nd when Opus 5.5 was released, the technology wasn't there. It's here now. For this simple reason, I believe we are entering a period of accelerated adoption of AI in Finance, particularly in public equity investment process. I am having conversations with firms who are interested in co-developing and enacting this vision for their investment teams. If this resonates with you, please DM.

I've been enjoying Victoria Whitworth's new work, The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma. I've actually never seen the Book of Kells in person, somewhat to my embarrassment. I've been doing some reading about the origins of Christianity this year, however, and I figured I should know something about the most famous Irish manuscript. (Perhaps the most famous manuscript, full stop.) Reading the book, I was struck by how much the contents have suffered over the past ~1200 years (enduring everything from water damage to reckless malfeasance in attempted nineteenth century restoration), and I wondered whether AI could help give a sense for how the work might originally have appeared. I downloaded the Internet Archive's PDF and asked my friendly neighborhood agent to use gpt-image-2 to render each page the way it imagines it might have originally appeared. Remarkably, this all worked with a single prompt, with the agent spinning up 48 workers, since each page took a minute or two. (I'm sure that someone wiser than me could prompt the model better, ensuring somewhat more historical accuracy in color restoration and so forth. There is no gold leaf in the Book of Kells!) This part of the project went from conception to completion before I'd finished my morning coffee. I then wanted some easy way to view the results online, so I asked Stripe Projects ( to host the result on Vercel. That also worked in basically a single prompt: I also figured that people might want an easy way to download the full PDF of updated images, but it's a large (~200MB) file, so I decided that I should charge $0.10 to cover bandwidth costs using @MPP. I asked my agent to set this up, and it basically worked smoothly, though I had to tell it what MPP is (I guess it's not yet in the pretrain) and also manually set up the Cloudflare account that actually hosts the PDF and configure the API key. (Vercel seemingly has a 100MB limit.) The purchases now show up in my Stripe account alongside all other activity. The site now has a ready-made agent prompt for anyone who wants to download the whole thing. I'm guessing that we'll see a lot more UIs like this in the future. I remain pretty intrigued by the intersection of agents, micropayments, and stablecoins. I don't know much about managing crypto wallets from the CLI, but now AI can do that for me, while Stripe seamlessly handles turning it all back into fiat. So what is the moral of the story? • Whitworth's book is very good, and you should buy it. • The Internet Archive continues to be wonderful and a civilizational treasure. • While there are rough edges, setting up third-party services via the CLI now basically works. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have bothered with any of this if I couldn't have outsourced almost all of the work to AI. • The image models have gotten very good. • There will probably continue to be all kinds of interesting applications of AI to history. (The Vesuvius Challenge of course being a shining pioneer.) • These days, I often find myself building single-use sites for things I'm learning or for books I'm reading. I think this is a cool new category of software.

I wanted to explain to you directly my announcement on creating a National Care Service and the triple lock. Fundamental change is needed to protect the NHS and give older people the support they need. At Labour conference, I announced a plan to create a National Care Service in the next parliament. To fund it, I am proposing an adjustment to the triple lock on the state pension. This will form the basis of a new settlement for older people in our country. I want to explain why this is necessary and what it would mean for pensioners. Everyone knows that our social care system is broken. And yet, for decades, politicians have failed to fix it. Shamefully, millions of older people have unmet care needs. Far too many see everything they have worked for – their home, pension and savings – wiped out by care bills. The personal cost can be devastating, but we should not make the mistake of thinking the price is paid only by older people and their families. I am convinced that if we carry on as we are, our broken social care system will eventually break our NHS too. Every day, older people who should be receiving support at home or in care settings are unnecessarily admitted to A&E. Meanwhile, hospital beds are occupied by people who are fit to leave but have nowhere to go because the care they need is not in place. Go to any hospital and you will see the effect. Corridor care is no longer simply the result of winter pressures. It is a commonplace indignity suffered by thousands of patients every day. It is time for fundamental change. The best chance we have of saving our NHS is to build a high-quality care service. The National Care Service I am proposing will be based on NHS principles: everyone contributes and everyone is covered. It will give people peace of mind about their care needs and protect what they have built up over their lifetime. It will provide free personal care – support with the most basic human needs: eating, dressing and bathing. And it will be integrated with the rest of the system, preventative in nature, and deliver care at home wherever possible, exactly where older people want and should be. A National Care Service, I believe, would become as significant as the creation of the NHS itself. But we need to be honest about the changes that are needed to pay for it. And I do not believe it makes sense to preserve the current triple lock while so many pensioners face the risk of catastrophic care costs. We can give pensioners greater financial security. I am proposing to adjust the triple lock. This is not an easy decision, but I believe it is the right one. We pledged in our manifesto that we would keep the triple lock throughout this parliament, and I will keep that promise. This means the state pension is set to rise by more than £2,000 a year, reaching around 30 per cent of average earnings by the end of the decade – its highest ever level. From April 2030, under our adjusted triple lock, we will guarantee that the state pension rises every year by either inflation or 2.5 per cent, whichever is higher. It will also increase by more than this when necessary to ensure that it holds its value relative to average earnings. This means that if inflation spikes, pensioners will be protected. If wages rise, pensioners will share in that rising prosperity, with the state pension tracking earnings over time. Nobody’s pension will ever go down. And the state pension will be put on a sustainable footing for decades to come. I want to be upfront about what I am proposing because this adjustment will bring change. The state pension will not increase as quickly as it otherwise would if we kept the triple lock in its current form. However, the adjustment will enable us to fix social care for everyone by building a National Care Service that provides older people with free personal care at the point of need. I believe this is a better deal for pensioners. I do not expect people to support this plan without seeing the full detail. We will start laying the ground now for the National Care Service and introduce it as soon as possible in the next parliament. Louise Casey’s review will advise us on exactly how and we will build the maximum consensus around her recommendations. It will be fully funded – and not through borrowing. I appeal to everyone to engage in this debate responsibly and urge politicians to continue the cross-party talks that began over the summer. We need less point scoring and more problem solving. The situation is too serious for us to play politics. Care workers struggling on low pay, families stretched to breaking point, older people fearful of losing everything they have worked for. We need to give them reason to hope again. I have wanted to fix social care for a long time. As health secretary in 2009, I tried to find a cross-party solution. Since then, I have watched the challenges grow more acute and the consequences become more severe. It is a profound failure of politics that we have known about this problem for so long and yet failed to act. I would never forgive myself if I did not try now. This is the settlement I am offering to pensioners: a state pension that rises every year, no care charges and a high-quality National Care Service to give peace of mind in later life. I do not pretend this will be easy. But in the end, politics is about finding a way. I gave my word that I would do everything in my power to build a care system worthy of the people who provide it and all those who depend on it. This is how we can achieve it.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Cenk Uygur thinks the next Iran war could trigger a global depression. I've rarely heard Cenk this angry or this worried. He believes Israel is heading toward a disastrous confrontation on multiple fronts, with fighting potentially spreading across the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. His prediction is frightening. If Iranian energy facilities are attacked, he expects retaliation against Gulf infrastructure, potentially sending oil toward $200 a barrel. And he isn't warning about another recession. He's warning about a global depression. But I challenged him here: Does he blame too much on Israel? And if its influence over American politics and media is as extensive as he believes, why can independent voices like his still speak freely? Cenk told me his network has faced serious financial pressure, lost business opportunities and struggled to retain advertisers. He believes his criticism of Israel is the reason. I don't agree with every conclusion he draws. But after my own conversations with officials in the region, I'm increasingly concerned about where this is heading. The part that got me was his warning that Israel's pursuit of security could ultimately leave it less secure than ever. @cenkuygur

Newly released Israeli military documents reveal that former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion wished the sea would swallow the Gaza Strip following Israel’s 1956 invasion. In closed-door meetings with senior military commanders, Ben-Gurion reportedly declared: “If I believed in miracles, I would wish the sea would swallow it,” describing Gaza as an embarrassing strategic challenge. Ben-Gurion expressed concern over Gaza’s 300,000 Palestinian residents, including approximately 190,000 refugees displaced from their homes during the 1948 Nakba, as well as growing international sympathy for Palestinians. He also feared that prolonged Israeli occupation of Gaza could deepen international isolation, and fuel military confrontation.