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Don’t Be Greedy, Just Make Money

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 brought many new things, almost all of them bad, including its impact on my work and income. A devout buy-and-hold investor, I began trading options as a hedge against income uncertainty, with an eye on an ever-receding retirement. At least the kind of retirement I’d want. At first I bought simple puts and calls, but after a couple of years the results weren’t convincing: a decent trade here and there, but too many unprofitable ones to make real progress.

Around this time I found 0DTE trading in the indexes. Credit spread trading. I was already quite familiar with the S&P 500, and to a degree with the Russell 2000, so I looked into it. Definitely my style. But the analysts I encountered traded big and, it seemed, could afford to lose big. I couldn’t, and I didn’t need to. So I began to develop a trading method that was tailored to both my aversion to unnecessary risk – the result of my years in insurance and risk management – and my disdain for losing money.

Don’t be greedy, just make money. Make money and keep it. It’s how I trade. But it’s the method, and the execution of that method, that makes the words material.