InvestingWithBrandon

3 numbers that completely changed how I trade options. (the last one is the one nobody believes)
$385 vs $2,540.
That's what a 1 month vs 1 year $NVDA put at the same $180 strike paid when I pulled them up side by side late last year. Almost 7x the premium for the longer contract... plus 11 more months for earnings to grow.
85%.
That's roughly how much of the premium I kept on 2 year puts I sold during the April 2025 tariff panic. I closed them about 3 months after I opened. When the fear left the market, the puts lost their value fast.
Long duration > Short duration

Guess who wins
Two people.
Same $100k.
Both bullish on the same great company.
Both sell the exact same put & collect $8,000.
The only difference:
Person A keeps the $100k in cash to secure it. (cash secured put)
Person B keeps the $100k invested in $VOO & lets those shares secure it. (portfolio secured put)
2 years later... who has more money most of the time?
Take a guess before you keep reading.
Person A: cash earns about 4% a year in a money market. $108,160 + the $8,000 premium = $116,160.
Person B: $VOO does its long run average of about 11% a year. $123,210 + the same $8,000 = $131,210.

🔴RETAIL INVESTORS SIMPLY DO STOCK OPTIONS COMPLETELY BACKWARDS...
(Let's run through an example)
When the market is falling.
Retail investors want to buy puts.
That bids up the put premiums.
That makes put more expensive.
They are buying puts as the market is getting cheaper and safer (falling)
We will use this to our advantage.
Instead of acting like the herd & buying puts when things are falling and becoming cheaper/safer.
We will sell puts usually with a duration of at least a year.
We will collect max premium and reinvest that back I to the company we are bullish on.
These puts are not ca

Walk up to Jensen ( $NVDA CEO ) & say:
"I bought a 1-month call on $NVDA. Can you make the whole company worth more by then?"
He'd laugh at you. "One MONTH? Impossible."
Now ask him: "Can you do it in a year or two?"
"Absolutely."
Here's the part everyone misses... that's EXACTLY how CEOs get paid.
The board doesn't hand Jensen 30 day options & say "pump it by next Friday." They give him 1, 2, 3 YEAR stock options... because that's how long it takes to actually grow a company.
So the most powerful, most informed people in the market are all positioned LONG duration...
& retail is out here buyi

I made MILLIONS in 2022 when $Q dipped 35%
Shares
1+ year portfolio secured puts
1+ year bought calls
Capitalized. & appreciated HEAVY since.
The next recession is your biggest opportunity to get rich.
Stop fearing corrections.
Start preparing.

What actually moves a stock's price in the long term?
Not Fibonacci.
Not Bollinger bands.
Not VWAP.
Not lines on a chart.
IT'S EARNINGS PER SHARE (EPS).
When a company's profit per share goes up, the share price usually follows it within 1-2 years.
So if you buy a great company below fair value & give it a year+... you have TWO things working for you at the same time:
1. The price snapping back up to fair value
2. Fair value itself moving higher because EPS keeps growing
That double bullish tailwind is the whole reason I only sell portfolio secured puts & buy calls 1+ year out. Long duration c

If you put $10,000 into $AVGO in 2010, you would be rich today.
Well... let's play it out if you somehow did nothing & held until right now.
Back then it was called Avago. Nobody knew the name.
End of 2010 it's about $15,500. Then it goes basically nowhere for 2 years.
End of 2012... about $17,300. You did nothing.
End of 2018... about $139,000. Slightly LESS than a year earlier. A whole year of nothing. You did nothing...
October 2022 it's down 38% from the end of 2021. About $364,000 down to about $227,000. You did nothing....
June 3rd 2026 it hits an all time high. Your $10,000 is worth abo

Before I put a single dollar into a company, it has to check 5 boxes:
1. The economy is in a decent place. Not perfect. Decent.
2. The overall market (S&P & Nasdaq) isn't wildly overvalued.
3. The company itself is priced right. Earnings growing, revenue growing, P/E reasonable, & not way more expensive than its peers.
4. It has a moat. Something that makes it really hard for a competitor to take its customers.
5. Pricing power. It can raise prices & people keep paying.
Check all 5 & you're probably going to do well long term, even if the next few months are bumpy.
That's basically what Warren

How I buy call options (the boring way):
I only buy them when I'm ULTRA bullish.
On a great company, trading below fair value.
When the macro setup is solid.
1+ year out. Usually longer. The company needs time to grow earnings & let the bullish thesis play out.
Just a little out of the money.
Deep in the money calls cost so much that I'd rather just buy the shares & have no expiration date.
Most of the time I'm paying for them with put premium.
Sell the portfolio secured put, take the cash, buy the calls.
It's boring... But it makes money.
That's what I'm here for.

If you put $10,000 into $NFLX in 2010, you would be rich today. Well... let's play it out if you somehow did nothing & held until right now.
End of 2010 it's about $31,800. Tripled in year one. Feels easy.
2011 they jack up prices, try to split the company in two, & the stock drops 61%. Your $31,800 is now about $12,500. You did nothing.
End of 2021... about $760,000.
Then they lose subscribers for the first time in a decade. By May 2022 you're at about $206,000. $556,000 gone in under 5 months. You did nothing.
June 2025 it hits an all time high. Your $10,000 is worth about $1.7 MILLION.
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