InvestingWithBrandon

Most retail investors doing monthly puts think they are going to win...
Here is the math that ends that argument.
Market gets cheap.
I sell one 2 year put.
Collect $20,000 ish.
You sell monthly puts on the same company.
$1,000 per month average.
You make money in the up months.
You lose in the volatile months.
You have to sell at the top when it is not compelling.
After 8 months you made $8,000.
I made $20,000 in one trade when the market was cheap.
Took the premium.
Bought shares.
Bought calls.
Sat back.
4 months later the market rebounded.
I closed the 2 year puts at 75% profit.
I held them

A lot of people do cash secured puts, covered calls, poor man covered calls, & spreads.
A lot of people also underperform the Nasdaq...
$HOOD publishes this to show how bad the investors on their platform do in relation to buying $Q and doing nothing.
This should open your eyes

Your HORRIBLE 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"
(bad)
They also usually do this with monthly contracts.
(bad again)
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 portfolio secured puts.
You can pick a strike price 20% below the money, get great premium,

THE S&P 500 JUST DID SOMETHING VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND
EPS growth just came in at 28.4% YoY.
That is NOT normal. That is explosive!
Normal is 10% ish annually & where the average 10% annual return for the SP500 comes from.
Profits drive stock prices!
So when earnings are growing at 28%... and the market is moving up…
That move is not random.
It's being justified by fundamentals.
Not all of it.
But a lot of it.
This is why the market does NOT need to crash just because it ran.
The floor just moved higher.
Now here is what actually matters…
First, some of this growth is inflated.
Big tech is

I make about $30k a month with options.
NO Day trading
NO Swing trading
NO Covered calls
NO Cash secured puts
NO BS
INSTEAD, I DO THIS:
Build base portfolio
Sell portfolio secured puts (not cash secured)
Buy LEAP calls with the premium from sold puts
BUY shares with the premium from sold puts
Be patient through volatility
(all 1+year option contracts)
I can explain it to a 12 year old & I will likely outperform 95% of people that read this.
Simple wins.

If you put $2,000 into Micron $MU in 2010, you would be rich today.
Well...
Let’s play it out if you somehow did nothing & held until right now.
You would have about $3,250 by the end of 2015
and did nothing
Then watched that $3,250 climb to about $13,200 by the 2018 peak
and still did nothing
Then watched $13,200 get cut almost in half to about $7,300 in the late 2018 crash
and still did nothing
Then watched $7,300 rip to about $21,400 at the November 2021 peak
and still did nothing
Then watched $21,400 collapse to about $11,600 at the September 2022 bottom
and still did nothing
Then watched