InvestingWithBrandon

🔴Selling covered calls is the most popular herd mentality "options strategy" on earth.
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 talked to that bought shares ca

🔴After doing hundreds of 1:1s with investors when they joined my training/community, I can confidently say the number 1 thing most people screw up on is literally investing with no system.
(sounds obvious right?)
So many people are just shooting darts at a wall and hoping something sticks.
Reason for buying shares/doing options?
Simply cause the price is going up, or some BS chart said to...
On top of this, they do short duration contracts and it's just pure gambling...
🟢The money is in buying great companies at good prices and using longer duration options to magnify ultra high confidence p

🔴It's now 2026.
For 95%+ of retail investors:
- Day trading still doesn't work.
- Swing trading still doesn't work.
- Cash secured puts still suck.
- Covered calls still suck.
- Spreads still suck.
The problem for retail "investors"?
They will continue to do the same thing & expect a different result.
Me?
- I will continue to build my base portfolio
- Sell portfolio secured puts (not cash secured)
- Buy leap calls when it makes sense
- Keep ratios in check
- Do all 1+ year option contracts
- Continue to capitalize in volatility
- Be patient & outperform 95% of all retail investors in the long

🔴UNPOPULAR OPINION:
1 out of 1,000 day traders are successful.
Yes, there are edge case situations
Yes, there are some 1 hit wonders.
Yes, some got lucky.
But in the long term, most will not make it.
Understand that.
Ask your "mentor" where are their millions?
They prob don't have it.
& if they do, it's likely from what you pay them to be in their discord, not their investments...

🔴I relate day traders to people that are "professional slot machine players"
Yes, there will be an edge case where someone does well for a period of time, but Vegas was not built on winners...
95% of day traders will unfortunately fail.
Short term stock moves are mostly unpredictable.
I simply use them as opportunity to capitalize on longer duration movements.
Patience wins with investing.
People that need instant gratification are often the ones that never scale to 7 figures & beyond.

🔴You can spend an entire lifetime "getting rich" but it only takes 1 bad investment to wipe you out...
Never put yourself in the situation where that can happen.
The market is hard to predict in the short term.
If you're in the game long enough, crazy things out of left field will happen.
Don't complicate it.
Don't over leverage.
Don't follow the herd.
Know what you own & why you own it.

🟢WHAT REALLY MOVES THE PRICES OF OPTIONS CONTRACTS:
(it's not just the share price)
1. Share Price.
2. Sentiment.
3. Volatility.
4. Demand for the contract.
5. Duration.
6. Strike.
Use this to your advantage.

🔴MAJOR problem with retail investors that have a day job.
(Many screw this up)
Most retail investors have a day job. Yes.
So, if you wanna make more money at your day job, what do you do?
- Pick up OT.
- Work harder.
RIGHT!
So they carry that logic to the investing world.
They correlate more work = more money
They correlate more trades = more money.
(couldn't be further from the truth)
This is why 95%+ of ppl underperform the SP500 in the long term... No surprise...
Instead, do this to beat the market in the long term:
- Build base portfolio.
- Sell portfolio secured puts (not cash secured)

🟢Sometimes, the best move to make in the stock market is to DO NOTHING.
Every headline doesn't need to be reacted to.
Every dip doesn't justify being bought.
Every pump doesn't justify to sell.
Sometimes you just need to sit and wait.
This is one of the hardest things for most retail investors to do.
Don't fall victim.

HOW TO INVEST $100,000 RIGHT NOW IN 2026:
(works on any amount though)
$40k $VOO
$40k $Q
$20k individual companies
Sell 1 year puts portfolio secured, not cash secured on companies that meet this criteria:
1. Must be below intrinsic value.
2. Must have a moat.
3. Must have pricing power.
4. Must have a durable competitive advantage.
5. I must be ok to hold for the long run in the event I get assigned shares, I can use the wheel strategy and patiently "get rid" of the shares if I want.
Key Notes:
- Portfolio secured, not cash.
- I keep ratios in check so if I ever get assigned, my base portfoli

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No day trading.
No swing trading.
No BS.
Just straight up investing the right way.
Over the course of 10 days of training (you can do it faster if you want), you'll learn exactly how you can scale your portfolio to millions with Stocks & Options in a low risk way & get access to my mastermind Discord community.
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🟢The BIGGEST hack with selling portfolio secured puts is that you can technically make an unlimited ROI.
(not kidding)
Roll with me on this one, it will BLOW YOUR MIND!
So selling puts is a bullish strategy.
That's why I would never want to sell "cash secured puts", I sell "portfolios secured puts."
(cash sits there and does nothing, but portfolio secured works for you being invested)
Ok.
So when I sell portfolio secured puts and collect say $20k for example, I take that cash flow and buy $20k in shares of the company I am bullish on. (same one I am selling puts on)
I usually sell 1 year cont

🟢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

If you get value from my posts, you'll love my 10 Day Stock & Options Transformation Training.
No day trading.
No swing trading.
No BS.
Just straight up investing the right way.
Over the course of 10 days of training (you can do it faster if you want), you'll learn exactly how you can scale your portfolio to millions with Stocks & Options in a low risk way & get access to my mastermind Discord community.
This is the exact same system I have used for the last decade & scaled to millions with tens of thousands in monthly cash flow in a low risk way.
Get set up here:

🔴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