Kevin 🥛

If you are new to selling options, relatively new, or just want a refresher, the book I published Dec 2023 is a great place to start... Also contains links to all my spreadsheets. mybook.to/Uj3x

@TheSecretAcct fellow AJ Bell user 🤜

I feel like a drug dealer. Invested in November 24 Return excludes dividends What’s everyone’s views of non ethical investing?

Yesterday we closed an $XOM position that was originally expected to be roughly a 35-day trade. Instead, we closed it after just 4 days for a 49% annualised return. 38 booked winners this year for OM members.

@MartiniGuyYT options selling?

Revolut has secured FCA approval to offer leveraged products, portfolio management and private wealth servcies in the UK

@W98AB so many problems with them. i hate that you can’t auto invest weekly or daily and it’s always 10th of the month. have my isa and lisa with them

£2,000,000 portfolio 50% selling premium: £1,000,000 At 1.2% per month = £12,000/month At 2% per month = £20,000/month That is £144,000 to £240,000 per year before tax, costs, bad months, drawdowns, and mistakes. Then the rest could be: £800,000 in index funds Long-term growth engine. £200,000 in money market funds/cash Safety buffer, dry powder, peace of mind.

@mikemajlak 3.75

if you disrespect enough people, regardless of their race, someone is going to strike you. most of us learned that in elementary school. the internet has delayed, not ended, this lesson.

Property is the WORST asset to hold in a pension now. Review extraction ASAP.

@grok @shiri_shh what is legit did she make money

That viral (now-deleted) tweet by asharoraa bragged about one Anthropic secondary deal payout beating her entire 20s net worth. It spotlighted the booming but unauthorized pre-IPO secondary market. Anthropic & OpenAI responded fast: any unapproved share transfers or SPVs are void—no board approval, no recognition. Secondary hype bubble popped, erasing ~$500B in implied paper value overnight. Company fundamentals unchanged.

This tweet single-handedly made Anthropic and OpenAI scramble and issue full statements on secondary stock deals. $500B of paper value just got wiped out overnight.

@xlab_os @shiri_shh @grok was the tweet real

@shiri_shh @grok explain what happened there

@BoilerPaulie @grok why do /s/

Allow me to translate this letter from eBay for those who don’t speak legalese: Ryan, We got your unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $125/share (half cash, half stock) supported by your 5% economic interest in eBay. Our board, backed by the usual crew of bankers and lawyers who get paid either way, “thoroughly reviewed” it. We’re rejecting it. Not because the math doesn’t work. Not because the highly confident letter from TD Securities for up to $20B on top of your $9B+ cash pile is fake. None of that. We’re rejecting it because your entire approach to running a company is an existential threat to how we like to operate here. Here are the reasons we feel this way, and the things we considered before paying consultants to write this: 1) We’d rather keep milking eBay as a “standalone” cash cow than let you turn it into something bigger and better. 2) Sure, you’ve got real financing lined up and you “know people” with deep pockets, but we’re going to call it “uncertain” anyway so we don’t have to engage. 3) Your plan would actually force real long-term growth and profitability changes we’d rather not be held accountable for. 4) The debt we pretended you can’t even obtain, the operational integration and focus on seller satisfaction, and most importantly, putting someone like you in charge of the combined entity all sound like a nightmare for our current leadership structure because all of us would have zero job security. 5) The valuation math only looks bad if you ignore the 46% premium you’re offering our shareholders and the upside from fixing eBay the way you fixed GameStop, which we are choosing to do and hoping nobody notices. 6) And I hope we buried the lede far enough here: Your governance and executive incentives are completely incompatible with ours. You and your board take zero cash, no salary, no bonuses, no golden parachutes. You buy shares with your own money and only get paid if shareholders win. We, on the other hand, like our nice, reliable annual payouts regardless of whether the stock is flat or the company is just coasting. We’re not about to hand over our golden goose to a guy who eats only what he kills. Look, eBay is “strong” and “resilient” in the way every entrenched public company says it is while handing out eight-figure checks and perks to the C-suite. We’ve done the usual incremental stuff: tweaked the marketplace a bit, returned some capital, and we’d like to keep doing that without any cowboy from GameStop coming in and demanding actual skin-in-the-game accountability. Can you just leave us alone? Our team remains focused on protecting the current regime and delivering “value”… mostly to ourselves and our consultants. Thanks, but no thanks, Paul S. Pressler
Chairman of the Board, eBay
(And proud beneficiary of the status quo)

@Therichardralph sell premium and be work optional. i did it

My portfolio is getting to a level where I really could transition it into dividend stocks and quit work. It's kind of breaking my brain.

@RobLipsett after it 100 bags 😆

Sometimes the answer is staring you right in the face, and you don’t even realise it 🥲 $SNDK

Driving up to the Yorkshire 3 Peaks today. GTC orders set for profit targets on all open positions. No screen. No stress. That's the whole system. #OptionsSelling

Scared money doesn't make money. You have to think long term if you are in a SIPP. I wouldn't trade around positions in there. Have a seperate account for that, maybe 10% to trade for multibaggers. I am assuming this is the most money you have ever seen in your brokerage acc? How you grew up around money probably tells alot about why you are not investing right now. And it's hard seeing your SIPP go down now after having such great returns (4x+) and it almost paralyzes you to make any future investments decisions

My current allocation: £66,000 in my SIPP sitting in the money market earning 4% (sold out after gaining 375% since 2022, would of got more if I waited till now) House equity: £70,000 £100 a month into my ISA £650 into a work pension separate to the SIPP What am I doing wrong? The £66k I would love to deploy but what do you buy right now that isn’t at risk of a pull back?

🚨Trade Exit: PYPL open.substack.com/pub/optionsmon…

Heading out for a 5k run before the market opens and always leave my phone at home and just have music on my garmin. It's the best thing ever!

Still amazes me how many people in their 60s, 70s and even 80s are still actively learning about investing, and in particular selling options to generate passive income. Curiosity might genuinely be one of the best anti-ageing tools.

@Codmico Done this before : )

@optionswithkev Increase options activity and remortgage lol

I’m coming up to a mortgage renewal in October. Currently paying around £360/month on a 5-year fix. Safe to say I’m mentally preparing for that number to look very different soon 🙃

I think a lot of financial anxiety comes from feeling out of control. That's why systems matter. Automatic investing. Emergency funds. Position sizing. Cash reserves. Good systems create psychological breathing room.