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You Don't Need a Day Trading Setup to Sell Premium — You Need Better Data

There's a persistent myth in options trading that selling premium requires watching screens all day — stalking IV ticks, refreshing chains, reacting to every intraday spike. It doesn't. The best premi

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Slow Burn Key Insights Last Week

In my last update email, I made the case that we might be in an AI bubble that looks similar to the 2001 \"Dot Com Bubble\" which was only really called a bubble after the crash. Leading up to that cr...

Horizon Update + Slow Burn Portfolio Features

The Horizon email list is typically an email that I send out about twice per week detailing trades that I'm taking. As you know from previous emails, since July 4th, I liquidated the majority of the t

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Adding This Hot Tech Stock Even Though it is Down 42%

I would love to add PARA to my portfolio, but the options just have 0 bid and the prices are all over the place. I don't have any confidence in that working out. While hunting for a new stock this we

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Taking Profit on KRE - Rolling Out and Up

What is the Fed cooking up? So far we've only had expectations of a rate cut pushed out further and further - as the Fed wants to wait and see what happens with unemployment, inflation, and tariffs. B

RESOLVED - Intermittent Connection Errors

Many of you experienced intermittent connection issues today that started around 1PM Eastern Time. This was a connection issue in our cloud network. The connection issue has been resolved and all conn

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Taking Profit on AAL Covered Calls, Rolling Puts on INTC

Last night Israel launched an attack on Iran. The futures markets plunged hitting nearly -2% very quickly. However, over night the markets slowly recovered and looks pretty stable now as I'm writing t

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Selling Premium On KRE, PINS, PYPL and AAL

The market opened with a 30+ point opening range this morning and didn't disappoint, at one point, moving up to just .30 shy of 6,000, but at this time trading closer now to 5950. These names are a s

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Closing YELP, Extending PINS and Considering a New Stock

YELP was a fantastic trade. On top of the option premium, I ended up closing out this position for a 10% gain in the shares as well. The breakdown of this trade, along with why I'm removing it from my

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Taking Profit in YELP and PINS

The market stalled out here after that massive move up and dipped a bit today giving the opportunity to duck out of a couple of covered calls early. I love closing short options early to capture profi