Every options strategy I've used in the last 10+ years, ranked worst to best.
7. 0DTE & weekly calls. Gambling. You need the direction AND the day.
6. Spreads. You collect $1,000 & spend $900 on the put under it. Bullish & bearish at the same time.
5. The wheel. You eat the drop, then cap the bounce.
4. Covered calls on stocks you're bullish on. Works until the stock rips & your shares get called away.
3. Cash secured puts. Right idea... but your money sits on the bench doing nothing.
2. 1+ year calls when you're ULTRA bullish on a great company below fair value. Time for earnings to grow, & y

InvestingWithBrandon 10 hours ago

I don't day trade.
I don't sell covered calls.
I don't sell cash secured puts.
I don't buy weekly options.
I don't run spreads.
I don't watch screens all day.
I don't trade on the news.
I don't care what the market does day to day.
What I do:
$3M+ in $VOO + $Q + Elite companies that never gets sold.
1+ year portfolio secured puts on great companies below fair value, secured by that base.
Every premium goes back into the base.
Ratios in check so a 50% crash can't force my hand.
$25k+ a month. 10 minutes a day. Don't complicate it.

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InvestingWithBrandon 12 hours ago

Retail investor: I'm 60 with $250k saved. I know I'm late. What's even the point now.
Me: You planning to die at 65?
Retail investor: ...no.
Me: Then you've got 25+ years of compounding left & $250k to start it with. That's not late.
Retail investor: But I can't afford to lose any of it.
Me: Look at that chart of $SPY. The SP500 has a 50+ year track record of averaging 10% ish per year on average. Yes... Some year will be up more and down more. But in the long run... it's hard to beat.
Retail investor: So just index & hold?
Me: That's step one. Step two is that $250k can secure puts on great c

InvestingWithBrandon 14 hours ago

Retail investor: I’m going to cash until all this is over... This volatility is too much.
Me: Until what’s over?
Retail investor: idk... the Fed, the Ai stuff, Iran, bubble fears.
Me: What happens when all of that is behind us?
Retail investor: then I buy back in
Me: At what price? The market hates uncertainty more than anything. The second those things clear up, it usually moves before you’ve decided it’s safe
Retail investor: so you’re just riding it out
Me: Riding it out with my ratios in check. My portfolio secured puts & bought calls expire in 2028. None of those events change what the co

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InvestingWithBrandon 15 hours ago

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InvestingWithBrandon 16 hours ago

POV: you sell weekly puts for "income" doing the wheel strategy
Stock is at $100. You sell 5 of the $97 puts every week.
Week 1: +$300. This is easy.
Week 2: +$280. Why doesn't everyone do this?
Week 3: +$310. Telling your coworkers about it.
Week 4: +$290. Looking up how to quit your job.
Week 5: +$300... then the stock drops 12% on earnings. Assigned 500 shares at $97. Stock's at $88.
Week 6: Selling covered calls at $92 to "get it back." +$150.
Week 7: +$150.
Week 8: +$150.
Week 9: Stock rips to $102. Shares called away at $92.
Final score after 9 weeks:
Premium collected: $1,930
Loss on th

InvestingWithBrandon a day ago

I retired at 31 doing this.
Step 1 = Build your base.
35% $VOO
35% $Q
20% high conviction companies near intrinsic value.
10% Bonds or leap calls if compelling
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.

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InvestingWithBrandon a day ago

Some perspective after yesterday...
The S&P 500 is about 6% off its all-time high
It’s still UP about 7% this year
Since 1980, the S&P has dropped more than 14% on average at some point during the year... & still averaged about 10.7% a year
So right now we’re not even at an average year’s drop yet
Does it feel worse than 6%? Absolutely for many investors. The Nasdaq is in a correction & chip stocks got destroyed
But also understand this... Many of the stocks that got hit the hardest were the ones that had the most expensive valuations... PRICE MATTERS

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InvestingWithBrandon a day ago

On Wednesday the Dow had its best day after a midterm election since 1982. Up about 3%
Yesterday it fell 1,833 points & erased all of it
Same companies. Same earnings. 48 hours apart
What changed? Emotions. Positioning. Hedge funds locking in their 2026 gains before year end. Fears about AI data center regulation after the election
That’s the stock market in the short term. It’s a emotional mood swings...
In the long term it’s earnings. & earnings didn’t change in 48 hours
This is why I don’t make decisions on days like Wednesday OR days like Thursday. I focus on finding elite companies at goo

InvestingWithBrandon 2 days ago

You will NEVER get rich selling covered calls.
Let me explain why this is important right now, especially after the market volatility.
You own the shares = you're bullish.
Then you sell a call = you cap your own upside.
So when the company you LOVE finally rips 40%, you get called away at your low strike and watch it run without you...
You collected pennies to give away the steak.
Sell portfolio secured PUTS instead.
Take that premium. Buy MORE shares. Let them compound for years.
One strategy caps your upside.
The other compounds it.

InvestingWithBrandon 2 days ago

Retail investors sold more stock yesterday than on any single day since March 2020
Think about that for a second
March 2020 was within days of the COVID bottom. The S&P is up more than 3x since then
I’m not saying yesterday was the bottom. Nobody knows that
But the biggest selling days usually come from the most scared people... at the moments that look the worst
The S&P fell 4.4% yesterday. Its worst day since April 2025. The Nasdaq fell 5.5% & is officially in a correction
& the people who sold in April 2025? They watched the S&P climb about 57% from that low to the record
I get it. Days lik

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InvestingWithBrandon 2 days ago

I haven’t met a single person that beat the SP500 doing CCs, CSPs or wheel strategy in the last 10 years as their primary strategy.
NOT ONE...
What does that tell you?

InvestingWithBrandon 2 days ago

Retail investor: I take profits every time I'm up 25%. Lock it in, never go broke taking gains.
Me: Look at that 5 year chart. How many "25% moves" are on it?
Retail investor: A few... but they kept going after.
Me: Right. So every time you locked in 25%, the thing kept running & you were out. Then you paid taxes on the gain, so you need your next pick to work just to catch back up to taxes paid.
Retail investor: I mean I have to sell sometime.
Me: Do you? Here's what the wealthy actually do. They don't sell their best shares. Ever. They get their cash a different way.
Retail investor: Which i

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InvestingWithBrandon 2 days ago

HOW TO BUILD A CASHFLOW MACHINE WITH $200,000 in 2027:
(works at almost any size, just move the zeros)
$80k $VOO
$80k $Q
$40k high conviction companies
That base compounds on average 15% 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 premium.

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InvestingWithBrandon 3 days ago

If days like today make you nervous in the market… you are like most retail “traders”
But it doesn’t have to be like that…
If you want to become an investor that sleeps well on days like today that actually knows what they own, why they own it, and do options with ratios in check to be fine in deep crashes and actually have a very good chance to beat the ROI of the market in the long run.
Everything you need is right here.
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InvestingWithBrandon 3 days ago

Let’s say Ai is dead because democrats don’t like Ai and data centers. I think Ai is fine but let’s just run with it for this example.
If Ai demand falls because data centers don’t get approved that can be bad for picks and shovels Ai companies like Nvidia AMD Broadcom Marvell TSM Ect…
But at the same time… wouldn’t this be bullish for the hyper scalers that spent all the money on capex? Wouldn’t this make the data centers already in place very very valuable cause compute will be even more constrained and the price for compute will go up and profit margins will be fatter and they at the same t

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InvestingWithBrandon 3 days ago

The world is not ending.
This is normal market volatility.
If you are panicking… it’s likely because you bought the shiny object stocks like most people do.
This is why I preach you must get an elite company at a good price!!
You need BOTH!
Valuations are resetting and it’s justified.

InvestingWithBrandon 3 days ago

Retail investor: "AI is a bubble bro. This is 2000 all over again"
Me: What do you think the Nasdaq 100 was trading at in March 2000?
Retail investor: idk... like 30 times earnings?
Me: Around 100 times forward earnings
Retail investor: ok & now?
Me: About 19... Look at the chart below that shows both times.
Retail investor: wait that can’t be right
Me: It is. Back then you had companies with zero profits going public & doubling on day one. Today the biggest AI names are some of the most profitable businesses on the planet... & S&P 500 earnings are expected to grow 15%+ next year
Retail invest

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InvestingWithBrandon 2026-11-04

People always ask how I pick which portfolio secured put to sell. Here’s my actual process
First, the company has to be ELITE & trading below fair value. If it’s not, I don’t sell anything. I don’t care how big the premium is. Options are just a way to magnify something. It's gotta be compelling.
Then I pick a strike where my breakeven ends up 20-30% below where the stock is trading at currently at. Don't forget... The stock needs to be cheap to start.
Then I go out 1 year or more. This gives time for the stock to revert back to fair value & time for EPS to grow. DOUBLE bullish tailwind for th

InvestingWithBrandon 2026-11-04

Here’s the math on why selling puts the way I do doesn’t blow up accounts
(The portfolio secured put, not cash secured)
Say you have a $1M account. You sell puts that obligate you to buy $100K of stock. That’s 10% assignment value
Now the market crashes 50%
Your base portfolio drops to $500K. Your put obligations are still $100K.
Could you still take assignment? Easily. Sell $100K of shares, & you’re buying a great company you already wanted at a price you already agreed to.
Don't want assignment? FINE. Roll the contract to buy more time.
That’s why I care about assignment value, not margin re

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