Cash secured puts have an EXPENSIVE price tag nobody notices. Say you keep $150,000 in cash securing trades. That's the going rate for a decent sized options income strategy according to "gurus" online. That $150k earns you the premium & nothing else. If it had been in index funds instead, at what the market's averaged, you'd have made tens of thousands more per year on the exact same trades. Over a decade that gap is life changing money. & here's the thing. It never shows up as a loss. There's no red number. No statement line. It's just returns that quietly never happened. That's why the strategy stays popular for 20 years. The cost is invisible. My collateral is my $VOO & $QQQ. Same trades, same premiums, & the money never sits out. The portfolio secured put will change your live.

Dear covered call sellers, I know why you do it. The premium hits every month & it feels like a second paycheck. Here's what I need you to look at... You bought that company because you think it goes up. Then you sold the "up." Your premium is a few hundred bucks. The move you sold might be 40%. & on the way down? That premium covers almost nothing. You eat the whole drop. So you kept all the downside & sold the upside. For pennies. The strategy isn't income. It's a fee you pay to feel busy... If you want to get paid on positions you're bullish on, sell 1+ year portfolio secured puts & call it a day. This is one of the only option strategies Warren Buffett does... There's a reason.

Let me break down a losing trade you likely did. The one most people make. You buy a call on a great company. 3 weeks out. Paid $500. Week 1: stock drifts down 2%. Your call is down 30%. You're confused because 2% isn't much of a downward move for the shares. Week 2: stock recovers, closes higher than when you bought. Your call is still down 20%. Now you're really confused. Week 3: stock closes up 4% on the month. Your call expires worthless. You were RIGHT about the company. You were right about the direction. You lost 100%. Cause of the loss: the clock, not the call. Every day that passed, your contract bled value (theta). You needed the move to be big AND fast... This is why every option I touch is a year+ out so I have time for my thesis to actually play out... Short duration is gambling. One day you'll believe me.

Cash secured puts have an EXPENSIVE price tag nobody notices. Say you keep $150,000 in cash securing trades. That's the going rate for a decent sized options income strategy according to "gurus" online. That $150k earns you the premium & nothing else. If it had been in index funds instead, at what the market's averaged, you'd have made tens of thousands more per year on the exact same trades. Over a decade that gap is life changing money. & here's the thing. It never shows up as a loss. There's no red number. No statement line. It's just returns that quietly never happened. That's why the strategy stays popular for 20 years. The cost is invisible. My collateral is my $VOO & $QQQ. Same trades, same premiums, & the money never sits out. The portfolio secured put will change your live.

Dear covered call sellers, I know why you do it. The premium hits every month & it feels like a second paycheck. Here's what I need you to look at... You bought that company because you think it goes up. Then you sold the "up." Your premium is a few hundred bucks. The move you sold might be 40%. & on the way down? That premium covers almost nothing. You eat the whole drop. So you kept all the downside & sold the upside. For pennies. The strategy isn't income. It's a fee you pay to feel busy... If you want to get paid on positions you're bullish on, sell 1+ year portfolio secured puts & call it a day. This is one of the only option strategies Warren Buffett does... There's a reason.

Let me break down a losing trade you likely did. The one most people make. You buy a call on a great company. 3 weeks out. Paid $500. Week 1: stock drifts down 2%. Your call is down 30%. You're confused because 2% isn't much of a downward move for the shares. Week 2: stock recovers, closes higher than when you bought. Your call is still down 20%. Now you're really confused. Week 3: stock closes up 4% on the month. Your call expires worthless. You were RIGHT about the company. You were right about the direction. You lost 100%. Cause of the loss: the clock, not the call. Every day that passed, your contract bled value (theta). You needed the move to be big AND fast... This is why every option I touch is a year+ out so I have time for my thesis to actually play out... Short duration is gambling. One day you'll believe me.

You own $200k of index funds. You've never touched options before. A great company drops 15% on a bad quarter. Business is fine, profits still growing, price just got hit. You tell the market: I'll buy 100 shares at 10% below where it is now in a year. $4,000 hits your account today in cash flow. (this is selling a portfolio secured put) Now.. three things can happen. 1. It recovers. You keep $4,000 2. It sits flat for a year. You keep $4,000 3. It drops to your strike price. You buy a company you wanted at a discount... All of these outcomes are a win. Wanna know the best part too? Your index funds shares never moved in scenario 1 & 2. This is the portfolio secured put. Index fund shares secured the trade the entire time. NOT CASH. Most people spend 20 years never knowing this exists. This is how I scaled to 7 figures

Retail investor: I just buy and hold index funds. Slow and steady. Me: Good. Seriously. That's the base. I do the exact same thing with $VOO and $QQQ Retail investor: Wait, you hold index funds too? Me: Of course. The only difference is I don't let them just sit there. I use them as collateral and sell puts against them for another 15% ish on top. Retail investor: So you're not replacing index investing… you're stacking on it? Me: Exactly. You're doing step one perfectly. You just stopped before step two. Retail investor: What if he market crashes with he portfolio secured put? Me: Ratios are always in check so you will be fine in 50%+ crashes. Retail investor: Why does nobody mention step two? Me: Because step two takes a few hours to understand so instead they choose to not for some reason... Please don't be like the retail investor making this huge mistake...

HOW TO BUILD A CASHFLOW MACHINE WITH $200,000 in 2026: (works at almost any size) $80k $VOO $80k $QQQ $40k high conviction companies That base compounds ~11% a year & NEVER gets sold. Not in a crash, not ever. Then sell puts secured by that base. Not cash. Every sold put has to pass all 5: 1. Company is below fair value TODAY 2. Real moat & pricing power 3. Profits growing for years 4. Strike 10% below current price 5. 1 year duration minimum Premium hits the same day & buys more $VOO + $QQQ + Elite companies. Bigger base secures bigger puts. Bigger puts pay more premium. That loop is the entire strategy. No day trading. No covered calls capping your winners. No cash sitting dead & ratios are always in check to be fine in DEEP crashes. This is how I scaled to millions

Someone paid me $64,499 to agree to buy their $META shares at $550... 2 years from now. Say that out loud. It sounds FAKE. They handed me $64k, instantly, for a PROMISE A promise to buy a company I already love, at a price I'd be thrilled to pay If $META never drops there? I keep the $64k for nothing. If it does? I buy a great company at a discount... & STILL keep the $64k. Wanna know the even crazier part? My base portfolio secured the whole trade, so no cash drag like CSP. This is the power of the PORTFOLIO secured put.

Find the "right time to buy" on this $QQQ chart Down 29% in about 4 weeks. They closed the economy. Circuit breakers halting the whole market over & over. Every day of that COVID drop, buying felt insane. Every headline said worse was coming. Then it recovered in roughly 5 months & never looked back. Here's what I want you to actually see. There was NO moment on this chart where it felt safe & cheap at the same time. At the bottom it felt like the end of the world. By the time it felt fine, the discount was gone. That's every crash. The "good feeling" & the opportunity never show up together. Ever... Every dip is usually because something bad is happening. & while everyone was frozen, fear had put premiums the fattest they'd been in a decade. So what did I do? Sold 1+ year portfolio secured puts & reinvested that cash flow back in to my base portfolio. The next version of this chart is already scheduled. The only question is whether you'll have a plan or just panic like most...

Walk into a bank with $100k. Buy a CD, collect your 4%. Then ask to ALSO use that same $100k as a down payment on a rental property... They'll laugh you out the building. "You can't have your money in two places at once." But that's exactly what I do every single month. My shares ( $VOO / $QQQ ) sit there compounding ~11% a year. Those SAME shares secure the puts I sell for another ~15%. Same money. Two returns. Never on margin. Ratios always in check. That's how 10% quietly becomes 25%. And 25% is the difference between $1M and $61M over time. Portfolio secured puts will change your life. This is how I scaled to millions.

Someone paid me $64,499 to agree to buy their $META shares at $550... 2 years from now. Say that out loud. It sounds FAKE. They handed me $64k, instantly, for a PROMISE A promise to buy a company I already love, at a price I'd be thrilled to pay If $META never drops there? I keep the $64k for nothing. If it does? I buy a great company at a discount... & STILL keep the $64k. Wanna know the even crazier part? My base portfolio secured the whole trade, so no cash drag like CSP. This is the power of the PORTFOLIO secured put.

🔴Your crappy strike price is why you get smoked with options... (how to fix it right now) Most retail investors sell puts with a strike price 5% ish below the current market price to "build a margin of safety" They usually do this with monthly contracts. Here's the BIG problem. 5% is not a good enough margin of safety, especially with a 1 month contract where you have no tailwinds of growth behind you. (as EPS climbs, the stock will follow that up) The solution is to sell 1+ year puts. You can pick a strike price 20% below the money, get great premium, build a MUCH better margin of safety, have a lower breakeven, & have the tailwind of EPS growth behind you... Easier. Safer. More reproducible. More Profitable in the real world.

So many people think more trades = more money. That couldn't be further from the truth. Think about Warren Buffett at $BRK. He's one of the most "boring" investors of all time yet he is viewed as the best investor of all time. Why? Because he buys great companies at good prices & simply waits. Does nothing. Let's the revenue grow. Let's the EPS grow. Doesn't panic over every single headline. & over the course of years, the stock will flow the fundamentals. This again is why I NEVER do short duration plays, especially with options. You don't have the tailwind of growth behind you... Don't make this harder than it needs to be. Buy good companies at good prices and use options to magnify ultra high confidence plays. 1+ year duration minimum for everything. It works.

When the market "CRASHES" Everyone says "Buy the dip" But do you know what it feels like to actually buy during a "meltdown" as an average retail investor? - Your portfolio is red. - The news says the world is ending. - You second guess everything. - You end up panic selling... at the exact wrong time. HAPPENS EVERY CYCLE TO MOST RETAIL INVESTORS. Smart investors will: - Buy shares while they are on sale. - Buy calls when nobody wants them. (cheaper) - Sell puts when the herd is paying top dollar for them. (selling for max premium) I always say the emotional aspect of investing is what crushes most retail investors... I do mean that!

Please... Just STOP. Stop selling CSP's Stop selling covered calls on bullish stocks Stop day trading Stop doing short duration options trades Stop getting emotional with your investments Stop following the broke herd Instead, do this: - Build base portfolio - Sell portfolio secured puts - Use cash flow to buy more shares & some LEAP calls. - Know what you own and why - Accept volatility as opportunity - Do 1+ year duration plays because they are easier - Keep ratios in check - Be patient