You think you're making logical decisions, but your hormones disagree. In this episode, we dissect the physiological realities of the trading floor. Based on the work of John Coates, we outline a comprehensive bio-checklist designed to keep your testosterone in check and your cortisol low. From the basics of the HALT protocol to advanced risk controls, we cover how to optimize your physical state for the mental warfare of trading. Strategy is secondary; biology is supreme.
Most people are stuck in the Effort Trap: working harder, staying busy, sacrificing more… and still not getting ahead. That old promise—“work hard and you’ll be secure”—worked in a different era. Today, globalization, automation, and tech have changed the game, and blind effort is often just high-speed running in place.
In this episode, I break down why the time-for-money model is failing and what replaces it: strategy, leverage, visibility, scalable assets, and digital tools. This isn’t about being lazy—it’s about being effective. Honoring the sacrifices of the previous generation doesn’t mean repeating their struggle. It means building a smarter system that doesn’t require you to grind your life away.
We cover:
• Why “hard work” is no longer a guarantee
• The difference between labor and leverage
• How platforms create exponential upside
• What “scalable assets” actually look like
• A practical way to shift from effort to strategy
If you’re tired of sweating for crumbs, this one’s for you.
Most options traders think they’re trading “up or down.” They’re not. They’re trading movement—how fast, how far, and how expensive that movement is. In this episode, I break down volatility the way professionals actually use it: Historical Volatility (HV) vs Implied Volatility (IV), why IV is the price tag on uncertainty, and how Vega turns volatility into profit—or turns a “right” trade into a loss.
We’ll hit the killer concept most beginners learn the hard way: vol crush—when you nail direction and still lose because IV collapses after an event (earnings is the classic trap). Then I lay out a clean, repeatable framework: buy options when IV is cheap, sell options when IV is expensive, and stop using the VIX like it’s a magic compass—use IV Rank / IV percentile in the actual underlying you’re trading.
If you want a real options edge, learn to trade the thing options are made of: volatility.
You think listening to your friend vent is "being supportive"? Wrong. You’re being poisoned.
Chronic complainers don’t want solutions; they want an audience. They are looking for a trash can to dump their emotional garbage into, and right now, that trash can is you. This isn't harmless venting—it’s psychological contamination.
In this episode, we break down why tolerating constant negativity is an act of self-sabotage. We explore the concept of "secondhand negativity"—how exposure to whiners physically drains your energy and kills your ambition. We stop pretending that "being nice" is a virtue when it costs you your mental clarity. It’s time to stop apologizing and start cutting cords. If they refuse to elevate, you need to evacuate. Your success depends on who you ignore.
In this episode, we break down the real story behind Black Tuesday—and why the 1929 crash wasn’t some freak accident. It was the predictable end of a system built on hubris, easy margin credit, and structural blind spots.
Drawing from Andrew Ross Sorkin’s The Reckoning: Anatomy of Wall Street’s 1929 Folly, we walk through the speculative machine that powered the boom: excessive leverage, manipulative investment pools, and elite financiers who brushed off warnings—especially from the Federal Reserve. After the shock of Black Thursday, the market’s fate was sealed when the banking establishment’s intervention failed, shattering the psychological “safety net” and triggering a full-blown collapse in confidence.
We also cover what came next: the backlash that built the modern regulatory era, including the SEC and Glass-Steagall, after Wall Street proved it couldn’t police itself.
If you think “this time is different” sounds familiar… it should.
Topics covered:
• The myth of the “Permanent Plateau”
• Margin credit and leverage-fueled euphoria
• Investment pools and market manipulation
• Why the bank intervention backfired
• How a confidence crash becomes a price crash
• The regulatory fallout: SEC + Glass-Steagall
“Tolerance” used to mean letting people disagree. Now it often means something else: obey the approved narrative—or pay the price.
In this episode, we break down Pathological Tolerance: a cultural inversion where protecting feelings outranks defending facts, and where “kindness” gets repurposed into a tool for coercion. We’ll look at how cancellation and de-platforming function as enforcement, why institutions and corporations choose cowardice over principle, and how self-censorship spreads when people learn that clarity is punishable.
We’ll also talk strategy—what to do if you refuse to live on your knees:
• how to speak truth without begging for permission
• how to build “parallel networks” when legacy institutions become hostile
• how to trade comfort for freedom (on purpose)
If you’ve felt the pressure to water down your thoughts to keep the peace—this episode explains the system behind that pressure, and how to stop complying.
This episode rips into the lie you were sold from kindergarten: do your homework, get good grades, take on college debt, land a “stable” 9-to-5, buy a house, grind for 40 years, then hope retirement doesn’t suck. We break down how the modern school system was never built to make you free—it was built to make you compliant. From its Prussian roots to today’s standardized-testing factories, the system rewards obedience, punishes curiosity, and slowly kills real independent thinking.
We’ll walk through how the debt-based university model and the corporate ladder are two sides of the same trap: keep you leveraged, scared, and dependent on a paycheck. We’ll also dismantle the mortgage myth and the “work ’til 65” retirement fantasy that keeps people chained to a cubicle while their best years bleed out.
More importantly, this episode is about escape. You’ll hear a concrete blueprint for getting out of the pipeline: questioning authority without turning into a victim, stacking real skills the market actually pays for, living lean on purpose instead of flexing for strangers, and using that surplus to buy or build cash-flowing assets. If you’re tired of being treated like a replaceable cog, this is your wake-up call—and your exit plan.
In this episode, We break down a fully mechanical 0DTE SPY put-selling framework built for one purpose: consistent daily income with strictly capped risk. No guessing, no “I’ll just wing it,” and no overnight exposure—just rules you either follow or you don’t trade.
You’ll hear how to:
If you want a brutally honest, rule-driven way to run 0DTE SPY puts like a professional—where position size, loss limits, and process matter more than predictions—this episode is your playbook.
Most traders obsess over setups. Professionals obsess over size. In this episode, we go deep into how real options traders think about risk, why position sizing is the single most important decision you make, and how pros avoid the portfolio-killing drawdowns that wipe out retail accounts.
We’ll break down the core principles from SIZE OR DIE – How Real Options Traders Think About Risk by A. Cordero, including why pros cap risk per trade at 0.25%–1.0% of the portfolio, how to size inversely to volatility, and why “no averaging down” is a non-negotiable rule if you want to stay in the game. You’ll learn how fractional Kelly sizing actually works in practice, how to think about portfolio-level limits on gamma and vega, and why survival and compounding matter more than any single big win.
If you’re serious about trading like a professional—structuring your portfolio so one bad day can’t end your career—this episode is your blueprint for disciplined position sizing, hard risk caps, and long-term growth.
This episode cuts straight through the academic hype and asks the real question: who actually has the edge in trading — the street-smart grinder or the highly educated quant?
Drawing from Street Smarts vs. Academic Intelligence in Trading, we break down why markets reward traders who can read people, adapt fast, and respect risk — not just those who can recite formulas and build complex models. From the blow-up of Long-Term Capital Management to the everyday mistakes overeducated traders make, we expose how overconfidence in theory can get shredded by real-world chaos.
But this isn’t a one-sided rant. The episode shows you how to combine both worlds:
• How street-smart traders can turn instinct into a repeatable system
• How academic traders can add humility, flexibility, and risk awareness
• Why pure “gut feel” is dangerous without basic math and risk rules
• Why pure “model worship” is suicidal when the crowd panics and correlations go to 1
If you’ve ever felt “not smart enough” for Wall Street or, on the flip side, wondered why your perfect models keep failing in live markets, this episode will punch through the illusion and show you what really survives in the arena.
In this episode, we rip the mystique off the Kelly criterion and turn it into a blunt sizing framework for options traders. This isn’t about entries, indicators, or chart patterns—it’s about the only question that actually decides whether you survive long term: How big should you trade when you have an edge?
We break down Kelly in simple, spoken language: how win rate, loss rate, and reward-to-risk combine into an “optimal” fraction of capital to risk. Then we punch holes in the fantasy. Real markets have fat tails, clustered losses, and correlated trades—SPY, QQQ, and big tech all get smoked together—so full Kelly is suicide. That’s why the real game is Fractional Kelly: quarter- or half-Kelly sizing built off stress-tested losses, not hope and margin limits.
You’ll learn how to think in terms of portfolio risk budget instead of isolated contracts, how to translate Kelly into max dollars at risk, and how to convert that into actual contract counts on your short premium book. If you’re selling options for income, this episode will force you to confront whether your current size is mathematically sane—or just a slow-motion blow-up waiting for the next volatility spike.
In this episode, we're cutting through the noise. The hard truth is most options traders are just gamblers, completely blind to the mathematical components of their risk. We're diving into the essential dashboard that professionals require to manage their portfolios: The Greeks. This isn't just theory. We'll break down how Delta defines your directional exposure and probability, why Gamma is the acceleration risk that blows up sellers' accounts, how Theta is the predictable time decay you're either harvesting or paying for, and why Vega is the critical measure of market fear. This is how you stop making simple guesses and start building structured, quantifiable trades.
In this episode, we're tackling a universal problem: dealing with difficult people. You know them—the selfish, the arrogant, the ungrateful. It’s unavoidable. We're breaking down Cordero's Stoic precepts for handling these encounters, and the core philosophy is simple: they can't actually harm your character. You are only harmed if you choose to react with emotion instead of reason. We'll discuss the practical guidance on how to control your own response, avoid letting their faults corrupt your inner state, and why endurance, understanding, and forgiveness are your best line of defense.
Summary of The Unlucky Investor’s Guide
Description: Our summary and commentary on Julia Spina’s framework: treat options like insurance underwriting—price edge, many small trades, fast exits, and disciplined risk. Concrete guardrails: IVR ≥ 30, defined roll logic, and portfolio delta/vega balance.
Wealth isn’t a vibe; it’s optionality—time, safety, respect, and control. We dismantle the “money can’t buy happiness” myth with hard evidence that well-being scales with income and power, then map the levers to buy back your life.
High intelligence comes with a tax: isolation. In this episode, we cut through the fluff and map the five-stage arc many sharp minds live through—Confusion → Frustration → Anger → Acceptance → Transcendence. We break down how perceptual differences create social drag, why constant translation exhausts you, and how to convert chosen solitude into leverage. Expect direct tactics: curate your circle with specialized groups, build emotional range so you can connect without dumbing down, and set rules that protect deep work. We also pull fast lessons from Tesla, da Vinci, and Dickinson—what they got right, where they paid the price. No romance, just signal. This is your AI-generated podcast—built to sharpen perspective, not coddle it.
What you’ll get: practical scripts for boundary-setting, criteria for “selective connection,” and a framework to turn isolation into sustained output.
Cut the fluff. In this episode, we show exactly how to use AI prompts (e.g., Grok/ChatGPT) to make sharper trading decisions—idea generation from technicals and sector rotation, instant options math (breakevens, risk/reward, probability, assignment impact), and real risk control via sizing and hedge simulations. We’ll turn macro noise into signal by summarizing Fed commentary and top headlines, scan SEC filings to spot SPAC red flags or catalysts, and outline a tight loop for backtesting and refining prompts so you’re not flying blind or overfitting. Expect copy-paste templates you can run today, a disciplined workflow for daily setup → execution → review, and hard rules to avoid hallucinations. This is your AI-generated podcast—fast, dense, and practical. Use prompts to buy back time, tighten risk, and improve P&L.
Time is the only currency you can’t earn back, yet most people act like it’s infinite. This episode is a wake-up call. We’re going to break down why your days feel like they’re speeding up, why routine quietly kills entire decades, and why “being busy” is not the same thing as being alive. We’ll talk about death directly — not to be dramatic, but to force clarity. You’ll learn how to audit your time, cut pointless obligations, and build daily structure that actually moves you forward. This is not motivation. This is a threat: you are running out of time, and if you don’t start managing it like it’s scarce, you will die with regrets.
This episode rips the training wheels off options trading. We’re not talking “buy a call because you’re bullish.” We’re talking engineering risk with intent. We break down how real traders structure positions using probability, volatility, and capital efficiency — not hope.
We’ll walk through strategies from conservative (covered calls) to aggressive (ratio call writing, short straddles, vertical spreads) and show what they’re actually doing under the hood: harvesting theta, managing gamma, controlling assignment risk, and exploiting implied volatility.
You’ll hear how the Black-Scholes model and the Greeks — Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega — let you price risk instead of react to it, and why implied volatility is the real market signal, not the talking heads.
If you’re still treating options like lottery tickets, this will either fix that or scare you out of the game. Perfect. That’s the point.
In this episode of "Invest in Yourself," we crack open Options Jive: the real dictionary of trading language.
If you trade options — or you're thinking about it — you’ve already heard the slang: “selling premium,” “theta gang,” “cash-secured,” “high probability,” “wheel,” “iron condor,” “defined risk,” “infinite upside.” Sounds smart. Most of it is half true at best.
This episode is your translator.
We walk term by term through the real language of options: calls, puts, strike, assignment, IV crush, Delta, Theta, buying power reduction, rolling, defined vs. undefined risk — and we explain two things for each:
What it ACTUALLY means in math and capital.
How people lie with it.
You’ll hear why “I’m just selling a put” is not a chill income strategy if you’re actually agreeing to buy 100 shares of garbage in a crash. You’ll hear how “iron condor” gets sold as safe when it can still nuke you if you size it like an idiot. You’ll learn how to hear risk even when nobody says the word “risk.”
This is not motivational. This is execution. After this episode, you’ll be able to listen to any YouTube trader, any Discord guru, any broker marketing page — and know exactly what they’re really saying in dollars.