InvestingWithBrandon

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.
Toda

The most underrated thing about selling a 2 year portfolio secured put...
You don't have to hold it for 2 years.
April 2025. Tariff panic. Everyone was scared & paying top dollar for puts to protect themselves. So I sold them 2 year puts.
About 3 months later the market had bounced... & nobody wanted to pay up for puts anymore. Everyone wanted calls again.
The puts I sold for top dollar were suddenly worth a fraction of that. I bought them back & kept roughly 75% of the premium.
I was in the trade for about 3 months out of 24.
That wasn't theta doing the work. The share price went up AND the f

The worst day in history to buy the Nasdaq $Q was March 27, 2000.
$117.75 a share. The very top of the dot com bubble.
By October 2002 it was $20.06. Down 82%.
It took about 15 years just to get back to even... & that's WITH dividends reinvested.
But if you bought that exact day & did nothing, today it's around $740. About 7x your money with dividends.
Now the person who bought in October 2002 at $20... that's about 37x on price alone.
Same fund. The only thing that changed was the price paid.
That's why I don't buy just because something is going up. I want great companies trading below fair

Retail investor: I sold everything last April when the tariff stuff hit.
Me: Ok. When did you get back in?
Retail investor: I was waiting for things to calm down first.
Me: Did they?
Retail investor: ...not really. Every week there was a new headline.
Me: The Nasdaq $Q closed at $415 on April 8th 2025. It's over $738 now. That's up over 77%.
Retail investor: dang...
Me: Want to know what I was doing that week?
Retail investor: Buying the dip?
Me: Some. Mostly I was selling 2 year portfolio secured puts. Everyone was terrified & paying top dollar for puts to protect themselves, so I sold them.

The stock market doesn’t crash.
It gives discounts.
Your emotional tolerance determines whether you see opportunity or devastation.

In 12 years of investing I haven't met a single person who got rich selling weekly options.
Not one.
I've met plenty who had a great month. A few even had a great few years.
Then one ugly month took it all back... because a weekly is a bet on where a stock goes in 5 days & nobody knows that. Not me & not you.
The people I know who actually built wealth with options are pretty boring about it.
They own great companies & don't sell them.
They only sell puts when a great company is trading below fair value. Sometimes that means waiting.
1+ year out, so the company has time to grow earnings.
Ratio

If you put $10,000 into $GOOGL in 2010, you would be rich today.
Well... let's play it out if you somehow did nothing & held until right now.
First year, it finishes 2010 down 4%. You're already red. You did nothing.
2014 it falls again. "Mobile is killing Google's ad business." You did nothing.
By the end of 2021 your $10,000 is worth about $92,000.
Then 2022 hits. Down 39% in one year. $92,000 drops to about $56,000. You watched $36,000 disappear in 12 months. You did nothing.
2025, everyone says AI chatbots are going to kill Google search. You did nothing.
Today that $10,000 is worth about

Someone paid me $21,999 to agree to buy their $GOOG shares at $290... 2 ish years from now.
Say that out loud. It sounds fake.
& here's the part people can't wrap their heads around... there are only 3 ways this ends:
It never drops to $290? I keep the $21,999k. For nothing.
It drops there? I buy a company I already love at a price I already wanted... & STILL keep the $21,999k.
It drops halfway & recovers? Keep the $21,999k, sell the next one.
There is no fourth option. Every door is a win when you only make this promise on great companies below fair value.
The best part about it? This is port

If whatever strategy you are doing does not beat this...
You're wasting your time.
(95% of people will unfortunately not be a this)

Berkshire Hathaway has paid one dividend in its entire history. Back in 1967.
One.
Buffett's company is one of the greatest compounding machines of all time. & it barely ever paid a dime out.
Why? Because every dollar kept inside the business kept compounding. A dollar paid out gets taxed & usually spent.
This is the same reason I put my premium back into the base instead of spending it.
When I collect premium from selling puts, it goes into more $VOO + $Q + Elite companies. Those shares grow. They secure bigger puts. Which pay more premium.
Reinvesting & letting compounding do its thing is ho

I make about $29k a month with options. Here's what my Wednesday actually looked like:
7:40am... opened the laptop. Checked if anything on my watchlist dropped below fair value. Nothing did. Check catalysts in the market and study the data that dropped.
7:46am... closed the laptop.
That's it. That was the workday.
NO day trading. NO covered calls. NO cash secured puts. NO 0DTE. NO screens.
Most days there's nothing to do because the trades are already built right. Great companies. Below fair value. Portfolio secured puts a year+ out, 10% under, secured by my $VOO + $Q + Elite individual compan

HOW TO BUILD A CASHFLOW MACHINE WITH $200,000 in 2026:
(works at almost any size, just move the zeros)
$75k $VOO
$75k $Q
$40k high conviction companies
$10k Leap calls
That base compounds ~12%+ a year & NEVER gets sold. Not in a crash, not ever.
Then sell puts secured by that base. Not cash. Every 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 + $Q + Elite companies.
Bigger base secures bigger puts. Bigger puts pay more p

Someone paid me $20,946 to agree to buy their NVDA shares at $180... 2 years from now
Say that out loud. It sounds crazy!
They handed me $20,946 instantly, for a PROMISE
A promise to buy a company I already love, at a price I'd be thrilled to pay
If $NVDA never drops there? I keep the $20,946 for nothing
If it does? I buy a great company at a discount...& STILL keep the $20,946
& my base portfolio secured the whole trade, so no cash drag like CSP
This is the power of the portfolio secured put

THE STOCK MARKET IS DOING THE UNTHINKABLE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US
Estimated EPS Q3 growth 29.1% YoY
Forward PE of 19.2
Economy ok
Interest rates ok (but on radar as they drift higher)
This is not a "bubble" being propped up by hype
This is a market being driven by REAL earnings strength
When profits are this strong, prices HAVE a reason to go higher
That is how markets work
EPS is strong & share prices will follow that in the long run
Will we get pullbacks & volatility? Of course!
But the long term investor will continue to win...