InvestingWithBrandon

🟢Keep your emotions in check.
Continue to DCA into quality stocks/ETFs at good prices.
When you find compelling set ups:
1. Sell 1+ year portfolio secured puts. (not CSP)
2. Take part of that cash flow to buy shares.
3. Take part of the cash flow to buy LEAP calls.
Then be patient and let the plays work.
Simple.

I'll never criticize the new investor making $50/month selling options...
Unless they do covered calls or cash secured puts...
Then I will.
(those strategies are a trap)
Most new investors fall victim to this because it's viewed by the herd as "safe" and "low capital"
But in reality, it's a way to cap upside on a bullish company (covered call) & a way to sit on a bunch of cash when you are bullish on a company (cash secured put)
I haven't met a single person that made millions selling CCs or CSPs...
But I have personally made millions selling portfolio secured puts, not cash secured.
Ratios in

🟢How to fix your portfolio for 2026:
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 LEAPS with the premium from sold puts
- BUY shares with the premium from sold puts
(all options durations are 1+ year long)
(much safer, easier, profitable, & reproducible)
Simple wins.

If you do options plays with a duration of under 6 months, you are gambling.
(why do you do this with your hard earned money...)
Nobody knows what a company is going to do in the short term.
Your fibonacci's don't know.
Your Bollinger Bands don't know.
Your VWAP doesn't know.
What I do know is this, if you buy a great company at a good price and give it a year or 2 for earnings to grow, the stock is going to rebound and follow the earnings higher.
This is why longer duration contracts win, cause you have the double bullish tailwind.
1. EPS growing & company will follow that.
2. Buying in belo

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🔴IF YOU CAN'T SURVIVE A 40% STOCK MARKET CRASH, YOU BETTER FIX THAT RIGHT NOW!
Nobody knows what the market is going to do in the short term. Nobody.
So who's to say the market can't crash 40% from the current levels?
IT TOTALLY CAN...
& you always need to be prepared for that.
If you can't handle it, you will be wiped out just like most retail "investors"
Cause trust me, it's eventually going to happen.

🔴Please... Just Stop
Stop selling CSP's
Stop selling covered calls on bullish stocks
Stop day trading
Stop doing short duration options trades
Stop getting emotional with your investments
Stop following the broke herd
Instead, do this:
- Build base portfolio
- Sell portfolio secured puts
- Use cash flow to buy more shares & some LEAP calls.
- Know what you own and why
- Accept volatility as opportunity
- Do 1+ year duration plays because they are easier
- Keep ratios in check
- Be patient

🔴So many people think more trades = more money.
That couldn't be further from the truth.
Think about Warren Buffett at $BRK.
He's one of the most "boring" investors of all time yet he is viewed as the best investor of all time.
Why?
Because he buys great companies at good prices & simply waits.
Does nothing.
Let's the revenue grow.
Let's the EPS grow
Doesn't panic over every single headline.
& over the course of years, the stock will flow the fundamentals.
This again is why I NEVER do short duration plays, especially with options.
You don't have the tailwind of growth behind you...
Don't make

🔴Here's why most people get DESTROYED with stock options.
It's very simple...
Stock options are simply a way to magnify an expected return.
The problem?
Most people have zero clue what way a stock is likely to go.
They buy cause "it's going up"
They sell cause "it's going down"
Minimal logic behind it.
So if you don't have a high degree of confidence the direction the stock is going to move form the get go, you shouldn't make a "magnified bet" by doing options...
You work hard for your money.
Quit playing games with garbage plays.
Only use options when you have a concrete thesis & did your ho

🔴If poor mans covered calls are so good, why aren't they called rich mans covered calls?
Oh...
Prob cause they don't make ppl rich.
One hand you are bullish buying the LEAP
The other hand you are bearish selling the call
Makes zero sense.
Don't fall victim to this trap.

🟢What is the CEO's job of every company?
Boost Revenue
Boost Efficiency
Boost EPS
Boost Share Price
Why?
Because CEOs are largely paid with stock based compensation.
Stock hits a certain level, they cash out millions if not billions.
BUT!
This is not them needing to boost the share price in a month. This is often over the course of a few years.
Why?
Because you CAN'T boost the companies true value in just a few months.
It takes a year or so.
This is why longer duration option contracts win.
You have that tailwind of growth behind you.
As EPS goes up, the share price usually follows.
The more

🟢Bull Market - I win
🔴Bear Market - I win
Capital appreciation or buying at a discount.
Always be positioned to win & never need the "market to do something in the short term to make your trade profitable"
That is DUMB.

How I Always "Keep My Ratios In Check"
🔴Expensive Market:
- Less sold puts
- Less LEAP calls
- Less high beta exposure
- More bonds
🟢Cheap market:
- More sold puts
- More LEAP calls
- More high beta exposure
- Less bonds
Of course there is more to the market than just expensive or cheap. The entire macro/economic thesis matters A LOT!
Unfortunately, most retail investors actually allocate the opposite of what I just said above simply cause they FOMO when things are going up & panic when things are going down.

If you are ULTRA bullish🟢
1. Sell portfolio secured puts (not cash secured)
2. Take some of the premium and buy shares.
3. Take the rest of the premium and buy calls.
Most will do cash secured puts and miss the move on the company they are bullish on.
If you truly are bullish and did your homework, you would never want to have all that cash sitting there doing nothing.
Buy shares or calls with the premium & secure the trade with your base portfolio... NOT CASH.
As long as you keep your ratios in check, you'll never get in trouble... no matter what the market does!

🔴Selling covered calls is the most popular herd mentality "options strategy" on earth.
(BUT THERE IS A MAJOR PROBLEM)
Let me explain.
Covered calls means you own the shares, that's what makes it covered.
If you own the shares, you are bullish right?
Hope so!
So what does selling calls actually mean?
Well, you are agreeing to sell your shares at a certain price in a certain timeframe.
Sounds good right?
You get to sell your shares for a profit and collect the premium.
In theory, sure.
But in the real world, there is a MAJOR problem.
CAPPING YOUR UPSIDE!
I can't tell you how many people I have

🔴If you sell cash secured puts, just know that you are making a MASSIVE mistake.
Selling puts means you are BULLISH on a company, yet you wanna let a bunch of cash sit there and do nothing...
Why not use the cash to buy shares of the company you are bullish on...
Secure the trade with that.
& guess what, you will not be on margin.
No margin interest.
Simply securing the puts with your portfolio, not cash.
Cause guess what, shares can be sold for cash if you gotta take assignment.
Many will say this is risky.
But you are simply wrong.
Keep your ratios in check.
Quality companies.
Quality valua