Friday is roll day.
And feels like stole my bike day. But using this dip to sell weekly premium on shares as per usual, and then buying cheap long calls to accumulate long leverage.
May pause the strategy next week and wait for the rate cuts or no cuts. NFA, but binary events
Is $MSTR the most important stock in the market right now?
Of course not.
It's the most important stock in the history of the stock market.
If
#bitcoin
is the hardest, best money the world has ever discovered (cultures discover that a commodity has good money utility, it can't
@venkatesh_koka
@PicturesFoIder
What's useful about remembering this?
I own and love dogs, but it's much more useful to remember that they're all dangerous.
MSTR 10 to 1 stock split.
Lots of folks will be able to finally afford 100 shares which are the minimum required to sell covered calls with.
But should you?
Today, I'll talk about why you would, and why you would NOT try out this strategy (trying to be as responsibly
MSTR is the answer to every bullish strategy.
That's the polite way of saying that every other stock in your portfolio is a loser relative to MSTR.
Chris Cole of Artemis Capital Management created a metric called CWARP which stands for Cole Wins Above Replacement Portfolio.
MSTR is dead to me.
MSTY is my new honey.
jkjk, but today I will go in depth on how MSTY works, and I'll give my opinion, NFA duh, on whether it's worth hodling.
MSTY does not hold any MSTR shares. Instead they sell cash secured puts at the money (equal to the share price -
I'm finally work optional after trading options for the last four years.
May is my four year anniversary since I started selling covered calls and puts.
It's a simple strategy, but, surprisingly to me, isn't employed more. If it's so simple anyone can do it, why isn't it used
@realest49919420
It's called lighting yourself on fire to keep others warm.
Welcome to getting zeroed out. Now go figure out wtf you want out of life and stop living inside other people's frame.
If that's too much to ask then figure out what you DON'T want and work backwards until you've just
Why my love for MSTR is totally irresponsible, but not forever ever.
Bitcoin is decentralized and secure. And only bitcoin.
Since the overlords at the top of the old (current) system cannot likely attack bitcoin on layer 1, they will have to resort to attacking layer 2 or
Friday is roll day!
Every week I roll my MSTR and mining stock options, collect yield in a form of premiums paid, and then use that premium to buy additional assets like more shares or LEAPS.
Then I sell more covered calls against those shares to collect even more premium which
MSTR scares me so bad, I'm not even putting covered calls on tomorrow.
I would normally roll on Friday, then take the cc off right before earnings, but I'm so terrified I'll get busy on Monday and forget that I'm not even going to risk it for one stupid day of premium.
I would
MSTR aftermath.
What's grosser than gross?
Having forecast of slightly negative EPS and still missing by a wide margin.
I tried to wrap my head around why no FASB fair market this time around, and the only thing I can think of is that since Saylor has always had a mind for the
Grok groks MSTR.
Do you?
Surrounded by Xwitter bitcoin maxis I sometimes forget how early we are, and I'm rudely reminded when I try to talk to normies about bitcoin and MSTR.
Today I did something a little fun and asked Grok about MSTR. The results will shock you.🤣
Maybe
@BarbellFi
Yes, financially. There is no way wages are up vs inflation except by using the official bogus, cooked rate.
Inflation is at least 15%.
The natural state of the world is deflationary. Tech makes everything cheaper so the prices should be falling, meaning everyone should be
Throwing away $2k for your viewing pleasure.
MSTR earnings today, after market close. So what do?
Why does IV crush matter, and how can you avoid it?
IV crush will vaporize the value of long call options. You go to sleep the day of earnings, and you wake up the next day
I spent hundreds of hours watching options trading videos on 2x speed so you don't have to.
And I learned a little secret sauce that increased my annual returns from 52% to 67%.
And in four years of selling options I went from thinking I'd have to work for someone else for the
@BoldBitcoin
So 3 more bull cycles? An order of magnitude each.
2025 bull 100k-900k
2029 bull 1-9mil
2033 10-90mil
This bull is the institutional bull.
Next will be nation state adoption bull.
Then world adoption bull.
At some point it will level off and appreciate slower, but idk if
Beginner option seller's guide to the wheel.
So you're getting behind the wheel for the first time, and don't want to crash into a ditch. NFA, but this is how the wheel works.
Step 1 - sell a put at a strike price, below the current share price, and at a price you'd like to own
Paying off your car early is the dumbest finance take.
All the tradfi advice is wrong.
Passive investing. Dividends. Index funds. Paying off debt early. Diversification.
7 companies in the spy make all the money. So you're investing in 493 losers to get 7 winners. That's a
I'm finally work optional after four years of selling call and put options.
This is how I did it.
I started with the wheel. Then I cut out the cash secured put part and just sold covered calls. Either is fine and should yield the same returns. In this video I show how I trade
Why selling covered calls is better'n buy and hodl.
"I'll bet a fiddle o' gold against your soul 'cause I think I'm better than you." The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels
I may have figured out why selling covered calls and reinvesting the profits has done so well
Quant Bros Episode 3 ⚡️
Is $MSTR the MJ of
#BTC
Equities?
Overview:
-S&P 500 vs Dow Jones Inclusion
-Intro to the Reflexive_Flywheel™
-George Soros / Christopher Cole
-MSTR vs the Leveraged BTC ETFs
-Global PubCo HODLer List
Context & links are below.
@PunterJeff
MSTR earnings margin call RISK.
Had $88k buying power at the close yesterday.
Woke up to -16k buying power, and at risk for the dreaded margin call.
The stock was only down enough to reduce buying power by $25k, but due to "Extended risk prior to earnings" rules on tastytrade,
Friday is roll day.
And with MSTR price the way they are I can buy an additional 100 shares every week with the premiums collected.
That means I can sell an additional 100 shares of MSTR each week than the week before.
That means I get irresponsibly longer and longer every
How much does an options education cost?
About $170k I guess. That's how much it cost me at the end of 2021 when the Fed raised interest rates, and I learned just how fast long options' prices can collapse. (Frickin freaky fast).
I turned $70k into about $240k from May 2020 to
MSTR earnings after the close today.
Will IV crush affect options prices?
Will revisit several strikes and days to expiration tomorrow for the results.
Also, big thanks for 2100 followers, and to
@punterjeff
for the @ heard round the world that made it happen.
Follow for more
Selling covered calls in MSTR is kinda scary.
It's like the apex thrill seeker activity.
Parkour on the edge of the Grand Canyon, pfft.
Mountain biking Mt St. Helens during bear mating season? Weak.
Playing Russian roulette with your retirement? Shut up and take my money.
Buying and selling shares is the dumbest trade in the stock market.
If you set a limit order for your favorite stock for 10% under the current price to catch a dip so you can follow the conventional buy low sell high wisdom, but the price NEVER dips or takes months to dip then
"[Selling covered calls] shows complete annihilation of capital over 90 years." -Chris Cole
This guy is crazy smart and insightful so when I heard him say this the hair stood up on my neck.
I make videos on how I execute this strategy every day. I also want to know what
MSTR option liquidity ain't sh*t.
Going through the exercise of setting up bullish spread strategies on MSTR, a put credit spread, and a call debit spread, but the bid ask spreads are atrocious still, even after the 10 to 1 split.
It's easy enough to get a fill buying a single
Selling options is trying to win.
Buy and hodl is trying not to lose.
Every time I sell a put or a covered call I'm reducing my cost basis, which increases my chances of success.
The trade off is limiting upside so I have to sacrifice winning the lottery in order to get the
Critical update - realized while walking the dogs and listening to Quant Bros ep 6 that I might be full of shit.😅
I was so proud of the analysis I did figuring out the cost per delta of various options I forgot to fully account for the potential for INFINITE cost to close a
I haven't stopped yammering lately about making more in my options trading than at my 9 to 5, but it got a bit of interest so that trend will probably continue🤣.
It seems I'm not the only one that would like to be free of their job.
So I put together a Q&A of the most common
Found a dividend stock paying 52% a year ROI!!1!!!
jk, that's what I get selling covered calls and cash secured puts.
Using bitcoin miners, TSLA, and MSTR it's easy to get 1% a week premium. Why aren't dividend investors lining up to do this? Unlimited upside I guess😉. But
I guess none of yall want to work, either.
I posted yesterday about finally getting to work optional after four years of selling options, and there were tons of questions about what stocks, strikes, DTE (days to expiration), and the wheel.
Also thanks for 800...and 900!
I made
It's split day MSTR effers!
Psyched to be able to sell covered calls in my IRA again. Back when I had 100 shares, MSTR ripped so hard and fast that I got priced out after shares were called away, and I couldn't afford 100 shares anymore.
I had to resort to selling pmcc, or poor
Options Comprehensive Mega Thread
How to use - I will create a companion article to this thread that will contain the Table of Contents for all of the videos in this thread, found here:
You can search the article for the topic you're interested in,
$MSTR is creating a monopoly.
No publicly traded company will be able to recreate what $MSTR did.
But every company will suffer crippling defeat until they take advantage of
#bitcoin
.
@chowcollection
@LamboStrategy
Wow just realized this reminds me of all the "the competition is coming for $TSLA" FUD.
Just like TSLA will eat all car companies, $MSTR will eat other publicly traded companies.
I don't need MSTR.
I like it above all other stocks for the foreseeable future, but selling covered calls and cash secured puts has been working for way longer than MSTR has been on my radar.
I sell covered calls in mining stocks and TSLA, too. And the secret sauce is reaching
Recently I traveled to Brazil🇧🇷 to discuss
#Bitcoin
with a wide variety of investors, executives, bankers, technologists, policy makers & journalists. Here I cover
@MicroStrategy
, Digital Assets, and the institutional adoption of $BTC as Digital Property/Capital around the world.
Selling >60 DTE (Days to Expiration) is a waste of time. Literally.
And I don't mean figuratively, like most people do in 2024 when they say literally. I literally mean literally.
As an option approaches expiration the rate of decay (theta) accelerates. This is critical for
@truthstreamnews
Is there a word for living in a state of perception where you see hidden secrets everywhere?
Because y'all have that, and it's fascinating. I wonder if it ever feels exhausting.
Reminds me of a pair They Live glasses that you can't remove.
Microstrategy.
MegaAnxiety.
I let my covered calls expire so as to avoid upside risk after earnings. This is my standard procedure on any stock I think highly enough to hodl long, and with MSTR it's doubly important. Why?
At some point MSTR is going to surprise. And when it
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no no.
Strikes breached. Wut do?
Up plan is the same as the down plan.
Today I'll be talking about what I do when my strikes are breached or threatened because it's happening in real time yall! Sell LEAPS to pay for the roll, pay out of buying power,
"Everybody's front running everybody on everything." -
@PunterJeff
Quant Bros ep 7.
Unlike Kari the confused babysitter on The Incredibles, Jeff and
@ryQuant
definitely heard Mozart as a baby.
My dad is a pot smoking hippie so I probably heard Pink Floyd or maybe Lovin'
Beginner option seller's guide to the wheel. Part 2.
Some of the finer points like when to manage a trade early, how to roll, and what to do when the price of the stock goes way up (yay) or way down (fugg).
The good news is when the price of the stock goes way up, you can
MSTR blasting a hole in my strikes!
Are LEAPS sent from Heaven or the Destroyer of Worlds?
Talking today about what steps I'm taking due to MSTR crossing above my strikes.
Nothing today, but on Friday I'll either let 100 shares get called away, or pay to close the call and
MSTR has a monopoly as the dominant Bitcoin development company.
But even if others join the competition it doesn't disrupt MSTR.
it only pumps MSTR's bags.
@Danny85732
@chasepalmieri
And no competition from other mining companies. And even if another company joins the Bitcoin accumulation competition it just pumps everyone's bags.
I've watched hundreds of hours of options trading videos at 2x speed so you don't have to.
Here's another secret Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique that I used to become work optional in four years selling call and put options.
So when is the best time to manage the
Being work optional is great, but what about when work isn't even an option?
I'm over the moon about finally, after four years of selling options, earning more in the market than at my 9 to 5, and it's even more important than ever.
Especially since I've survived 5 layoffs at
Bitcoin is breaking all your models.
And MSTR is ripping faces.
Today I want to answer the question what is the most cost effective leverage to mitigate limiting upside in the covered call strategy I use.
I will compare the risk-reward between cheap LEAPS way out of the money
Closed both MSTR covered calls for profit. (Had me nervous there for a second).
Bought long call on the dip.
No new cc as of now since MSTR has earnings next Thursday.
No Friday roll day tomorrow due to family activities.
I will let all 7/26 contracts expire and either
You gotta be better than bitcoin.
For now, people are more than happy to part with some of their useless dollars to pay other people for goods and services.
But one day, when the whole world is on the new system, it's going to be like pulling teeth to get someone to part with
Building a better MSTRap.
I set out to recreate the MSTY synthetic covered call strategy, and I ended up creating Frankenstein's monster.
They formulate their synthetic covered calls with equal numbers of at the money short puts and long calls as far out as around 6 months DTE.
Covered calls have several advantages over cash secured puts.
1. Binary events flexibility - you can close a covered call before earnings or delivery reports (TSLA) in case the market is surprised by sharp move upward.
You don't lose much premium, just one day, and if you're
Friday is roll day!
MSTR still trading sideways...wen moon?
Idk the down plan is the same as the up plan, which is apparently the same as the sideways plan. Reduce cost basis for a greater chance of success.
And sell short term calls to buy long term long calls.
Took some
I don't care about my MSTR shares.
or
Why I kinda like it when the stock price goes over my covered call strikes.
Totally not the case if I only have 100 shares, and I don't want them called away, but since I have unlimited upside with my long calls I want the price to go moon
How to win 100% of your trades.
Sell covered calls or cash secured puts.
At 80% chance of profit I capture all of the premium 4 out of 5 trades.
The other 20% of the time I capture all of the premium AND some portion of the upside.
So I will either collect about 1% a week or 1%
Tesla doesn't sell cars.
They sell driving data collecting wheeled robots for their full self driving software which will be used to operate a fleet of millions of money printing robotaxis.
Then the artificial intelligence that guides their wheeled robots to navigate with the
Doing a speed run to show how I make more selling options in 15 minutes a week than I do at my 9 to 5.
Make no mistake, I've put in a ton of time and effort before today to learn the strategy and research assets.
I watched hundreds of hours of option trading videos on 2x speed
All car companies not named TSLA are doomed.
I should qualify that BYD will probably be number two, propped up by the Chinese government (and to be fair, some pretty compelling cars).
I test drove a model Y using just my phone.
And this is what I learned.
TSLA is the only
MSTR is breaking my brain.
I'm an options seller.
It's what has taken me from thinking I would work until I die to work optional in 4 years.
But upside risk is so great that for the first time ever, I get nervous choosing a strike selling cc against MSTR shares.
I got rekt
Wen sell bitcoin?
MSTR?
I know, never sell your bitcoin.
Diversifying is selling the winners to buy losers.
I heard Saylor say it. He said it better than you. Why is it so hard to time the top, really?
I'm not sure if the Plan B or Plan G mafias are right or wrong, but it
@BarbellFi
Possibly as a calculated risk opportunity that rates come down and can refinance cheaper in a couple years.
Actually waiting for the rates to come down could backfire because it could turn into a sellers market and have to overpay for the house.
Worst part is the 150k in cash
But what about TSLA?
I am laser eyed focused on MSTR because they're building a monopoly as a bitcoin develop company.
Their lead is unassailable by any company that is as lean as MSTR is so that any capable company still won't be valued as bitcoin concentrated.
But TSLA owns
Should I sell or should I buy now?
If I buy it will be troubllllle.
If I sell it will be double.
I sell covered calls. The shorter the expiration the better. I collect more premium, the price drops quickly, and there's not much time for the stock price to benefit the buyer.
@mattkratter
The best theory I heard for why govt didn't shut down Bitcoin when they had the chance and why I think they're suddenly supporting it now is because it's a pressure release valve for inflation.
Instead of everyone inflating housing and other speculative assets that make their
MSTR rallying, why are some option prices down from yesterday?
No time for long a$$ post.
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Orange Pill Investor ep 188.
Be good yall.
00:00 At the money options up. Out of the money
Poor man's covered calls can work better than covered calls in a bullish environment, but they are downright dangerous in a bear market.
Showing how to set them up in my IRA since IRA is a cash account, and it cannot benefit from margin discounts like my regular trading account.
Excellent video describing how yield max operates their covered call ETFs like MSTY.
Biggest revelations for me were they use European options so they can't be exercised on until expiration date and also they only have to pay like 10% for their options. Maybe they get
@Investmentkage
Inflation kills everything. Corporate greed is fought by other companies who are just as greedy and will undercut their prices to steal customers away.
Don't make me go Samuel L. Jackson on that a$$!🤣
I saw a post getting quite a bit of traction by Cole Grinde, and some of the replies were trying to drag him for saying what I say every week. He collects like 1.5% premium a week on his portfolio. I usually talk a conservative
My entire portfolio could have been up 55% this week, but I sold covered calls against MSTR and limited my upside.😢
Instead I had to settle for up 47% for the week🤣.
This is NOT the usual kind of returns I expect to see, but I was levered to the gills so I got lucky rolling
Let's talk about risk baby! (Sings in Salt n Pepa)
A lot of interest in taking the plunge selling options against shares, and I think that's great because that's all I do, and I enjoy doing it.
Every strategy comes with risk, though, so let's talk about risk.
There's downside
MARA is the worst mining stock.
That's right, they've gone from first to worst.
Not long ago I ranked the top mining stocks for option selling, and MARA was tied for number one, but recent revelations by Bitcoin University have caused me to move it to the "will not trade under