Trading Week Ending 07/17/26

July 18, 2026
This week was a lot less trading, mostly in part due to running out of available funds to trade with. Apparently, that’s what happens when you sell weekly puts but monthly covered calls. I suppose that was the obvious outcome to everyone except me. To put it another way, the timeframe on the puts and

Toenail Cutting And Other Unpleasant Things

July 14, 2026
I have never liked having my toenails cut. I still remember as a child not liking it when my mother cut my toenails and then used that pointy thing to clean out under the edges of the nails (which to be fair to her, is what she should have done, I just hated it). It

Trading Week Ending 07/10/26

July 12, 2026
This was a wild week. I had a lot going on, probably too much. I started blogging again, something I’ve done off and on over the years, I used to teach it. And as you can see, I started putting my weekly trades in my blog, but today, I had a Frankenstein’s Monster of an

The Accident

July 10, 2026
On January 1st, a little after 5am, a drunk driver ran a red light going over 50mph and hit my passenger side as I was on my way to work. The next 4 days were filled with unimaginable pain and surgeries and I nearly died a couple times. God kept saying, “not today”. I won’t

The Wheel Strategy – Introduction

July 10, 2026
“The Wheel” would be a great name for a cheesy horror movie about a possessed wheel…. But a strategy to defeat a demonic wheel is not what this is. I know, I’m disappointed too. The Wheel Strategy is simply a very safe, and boring, way of trading options. And it doesn’t take very long to

I Don’t Want To People Anymore

July 8, 2026
It’s exhausting, trying to act normal. I’ve spent my life as an outsider, usually bullied, with only a few close friends because I was different (growing up, I didn’t know I was autistic). My interactions are often me simply copying what I’ve seen others do with mixed results ranging from acceptable to catastrophic failure. Even

Trading Week Ending 07/03/26

July 7, 2026
I was assigned my 100 shares of NOK so I did the following: Sold one NOK 31 JUL 26 14 CALLSold two NOK 2 JUL 26 11.5 PUTs Over the weekend I had opened a ROTH and moved my profit into it. My plan for the ROTH is to use nothing more risky than the

Too Smart For My Own Good

July 6, 2026
There’s nothing like being a knowledgeable person about something, doing something that’s [almost] second nature, and then realizing that you made a colossal mistake. I did that. Today. I had a main hosting account under one domain, I changed it to another domain. Then I deleted the files from the now-old domain. The new domain

Trading Week Ending 06/26/26

June 30, 2026
I experimented with continuing to do weekly puts, but monthly covered calls, so I accomplished the following: I sold 1 NOK Cash Secured Put at the $13 strike price I sold 2 Covered Calls on DKNG I sold 1 Cash Secured Put on DKNG at the $25 strike price. And I sold 1 TOST Cash

Trading Week Ending 06/19/26

June 29, 2026
My DKNG was called away for a profit. I sold some Cash Secured Puts, some got filled but others weren’t so I changed my mind during the day and cancelled some orders that didn’t get filled in favor of more of the ones that did get filled for DKNG and NOK. My DKNG shares were