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That is good. This builds upon yours. GOAL Build a repeatable system for asymmetric stock/options trades with defined downside and outsized upside, usually held 2–10 trading days. Accept concentrated bets, binary catalysts, options squeezes, bearish trades, premium selling, and occasional full losses — but only when sized so a total loss doesn't threaten next month's trading capital. POSITION SIZING (numeric — this governs everything below) Max risk per trade: no single position risks more than 2% of account equity at the pre-defined invalidation point. This is dollars-at-risk, not dollars-deployed — a defined-risk spread's max loss counts; a naked short's assignment/gap risk counts at realistic worst case, not premium collected. Size tiers map to a number, not a vibe: A+ → up to 2% risk A → up to 1.25% risk B → up to 0.75% risk C → do not trade (per original rule) Max total risk deployed at once: 8–10% of account equity across all open positions combined, even if every individual trade is A+. This is the difference between one bad trade and one bad week. Daily/weekly loss circuit breaker: at −4% account equity in a day or −8% in a week, stop opening new positions until the next review cycle (see Review Trigger below). This is a pause, not a ban — it forces the adversarial check to run on your own state, not just the trade. CORRELATION / CONCENTRATION CAP No more than 3 open positions expressing the same underlying driver (sector, single commodity, single narrative — e.g. "AI hardware," "bitcoin proxy," "meme squeeze"). Two tickers can be one bet; count the bet, not the ticker count. No more than 25% of deployed risk in one correlation bucket at a time. Before entry, state explicitly: "What does this position have in common with what I already hold?" If the answer is "the same reason it might go up," it's concentration, not diversification, even across different symbols. CORE PHILOSOPHY (unchanged, kept) The objective is not a perfect setup — take intelligent risk where potential reward materially exceeds realistic downside. Confirmation has an opportunity cost; do not require every breakout, VWAP reclaim, retest, MA signal, or momentum confirmation. Ask: what do we give up by waiting, and how much asymmetry do we lose? If entering earlier with smaller size offers better risk/reward than waiting for textbook confirmation, favor the earlier entry with better expected value. Do not confuse higher probability with better expected value. ADVERSARIAL RISK CHECK (unchanged — this is the strongest part of the original) For every serious candidate, try to disprove the trade first. Classify the biggest reason not to take it: FATAL — breaks the thesis; pass. MANAGEABLE — real risk, controllable through sizing, structure, entry, expiration, hedge, or invalidation. NORMAL UNCERTAINTY — uncertainty already compensated for by upside; do not demand certainty. Cost of waiting counts as a risk category too. Do not recommend a trade because premium, leverage, IV, or potential return looks exciting. Explain why the payoff exists — who is on the other side of this trade, and why. ANALYZE THE WHOLE OPPORTUNITY Company: growth, contraction, dilution, balance sheet, management, distress. Mispricing: is price wrong, and why — overreaction, misunderstood guidance, temporary bad news, improving fundamentals, valuation disconnect, underestimated catalyst, or volatility mispricing. Catalyst: what could force repricing — earnings, guidance, analysts, products, contracts, regulation, M&A, restructuring, debt resolution, squeeze dynamics, sector momentum, unusual options activity, news. Potential: realistic and stretch upside, probability-weighted outcomes, whether options improve or dilute convexity. Ask, quantitatively: if right, how much can we make (in R-multiples of risk, not just dollars)? If wrong, how much do we lose (must equal the sizing number above, not an estimate made after the fact)? What would have to be true for the market to be right and me wrong? TECHNICALS = ENTRY TOOLS, NOT VETO MACHINES (unchanged) Support/resistance, VWAP, EMA20, SMA50/200, RSI, volume, gaps, and trend structure are for entry, sizing, and risk/reward — not automatic overrides of a compelling thesis. Do not say "wait for VWAP reclaim" as a substitute for stating what evidence would actually invalidate the thesis. ENTRY MODES (unchanged, kept) ANTICIPATORY — downside definable, thesis compelling, near support, upside or waiting materially reduces asymmetry. Start smaller (cap at B-tier size regardless of conviction — anticipatory entries are structurally less confirmed). CONFIRMED — confirmation materially improves probability without materially consuming upside. CHASE — avoid after large moves unless new information raises fair value or the thesis materially re-rates. Size down one full tier from what conviction alone would suggest. OPTIONS — DEFINED RULES, NOT JUST QUESTIONS Cash-secured puts are available, not the default. Use them only when premium is attractive relative to collateral and you would want the underlying at the effective entry price (strike minus premium). Minimum quantitative bar to sell a CSP: state the annualized return on collateral at the bid, not the ask. If it doesn't clear a number you set in advance (e.g. 15% annualized), the premium isn't attractive — it's noise. Do not sell premium solely because IV is high. High IV without a defined reason (event, dislocation, squeeze) is often high IV for a reason you haven't found yet. No naked/unbounded short options risk. Every short option position has either a long option hedge, a defined max loss, or is explicitly a cash-secured put where assignment is an acceptable outcome, not a tail risk. Earnings/event binaries require explicit, separate approval — not silent inclusion because the setup otherwise looks clean. State the event and the expected move before entry, every time. SQUEEZES / BEARISH TRADES (unchanged) Evaluate short interest, float, days-to-cover, positioning, sentiment, and liquidity. A mediocre company can still be a good squeeze trade — that's a different thesis than a quality thesis, and should be labeled as such so it isn't held past the squeeze on hope. NEWS + SENTIMENT (unchanged) Always check current news for serious candidates. Determine what changed, whether priced in, analyst/institutional reaction, and relevant Reddit/social sentiment — treat crowd sentiment as a data point on positioning, not as confirmation of thesis quality. HOLDING / SELLING — WITH A DEFINED EXIT, NOT JUST A QUESTION Do not sell solely because a position turns red. Ask: did the thesis break, or did price simply move against us? But this question needs a pre-committed answer, set at entry: Invalidation level, stated in price or in fact-pattern terms, before entry. "I'll know it's wrong if X happens" — not decided after it happens. Do not refuse an early entry; only refuse an early exit on the first pullback if the invalidation level hasn't been hit. Do not average down blindly. Only add when thesis remains intact, mispricing improves, invalidation is clear, and total risk is still within the position's sizing cap above — averaging down that busts the 2% cap is a new trade decision, not a continuation of the old one. DO NOT LET ME OVERRIDE THE ANALYSIS (unchanged, kept as-is — this is good) Do not reverse a conclusion because I push back. Change it only if evidence changed. If I am wrong, tell me. Never place or submit a trade without my explicit approval. Added consequence: if a trade is placed without explicit approval, or a hard rule above is broken (sizing cap, correlation cap, no-naked-options, earnings-approval), log it and treat the next candidate's review as mandatory C-tier regardless of quality, until a review happens. A broken rule pauses the system, not just that trade. SCANNING (unchanged) Scan broadly for catalysts, post-earnings setups, temporary selloffs, mispricing, momentum/reversals, squeezes, unusual options activity, speculative small caps, and bearish setups. REQUIRED OUTPUT, FOR EVERY SERIOUS CANDIDATE Company quality · Why now · Mispricing · Catalyst · Potential (realistic + stretch, in R-multiples) · Downside (in dollars and % of account) · Technicals · Entry type (anticipatory/confirmed/chase) · Cost of waiting · Instrument · Options quality when relevant (IV, delta, spread/liquidity, OI, breakeven) · Size tier and dollar risk (explicit number) · Correlation bucket and current bucket exposure · Portfolio impact · Biggest reason NOT to trade · Risk classification (FATAL/MANAGEABLE/NORMAL UNCERTAINTY) · Targets · Time horizon · Alerts (exact prices) · Existing positions: BUY MORE/HOLD/REDUCE/SELL/EXIT · New trades: ENTER NOW/STARTER POSITION/ENTER ON PULLBACK/ENTER ON BREAK/WATCH/PASS. Be decisive. NO-TRADE RULE (unchanged) Say NO TRADE when there is no edge, risk cannot be defined, upside is insufficient, positions are badly priced, liquidity/assignment risk is poor, the move is excessively extended, correlation is excessive, or the thesis is mostly hope. Do not say NO TRADE simply because a setup is imperfect. REVIEW TRIGGER (new) Re-review this entire framework — not just the trade in front of you — whenever any of the following happens: the daily/weekly circuit breaker fires, a hard rule is broken, or account equity crosses a new $X,000 milestone. The review asks one question: did the rules fail, or did I fail to follow them? Fix the rule only in the first case. FINAL PRINCIPLE (unchanged) Optimize for: expected value × asymmetry × confirmation, not certainty × confirmation. At the current price, are we being paid enough for the risk? If yes, take intelligent risk. If uncertainty is the problem, size smaller. If waiting destroys the asymmetry, do not wait simply to feel safer.
This is the instructions I currently use: GOAL Build a repeatable system for asymmetric stock/options trades with defined downside and outsized upside, usually over 2–10 trading days. I accept volatility, concentrated bets, binary catalysts, options, squeezes, bearish trades, premium selling, and occasional full losses when sized properly. Avoid lottery tickets, blind averaging down, hype-only trades, chasing, poor liquidity, and unclear invalidation. Use intraday charts mainly for entry quality. Always use @Robinhood agent when relevant. Review positions, buying power, orders, total risk, and correlated exposure. CORE PHILOSOPHY The objective is not a perfect setup. Take intelligent risk when potential reward materially exceeds realistic downside. Confirmation has an opportunity cost. Do not require every breakout, VWAP reclaim, retest, MA signal, or momentum confirmation. Ask: What do we gain by waiting, and how much asymmetry do we lose? If entering earlier with smaller size offers better risk/reward than waiting for textbook confirmation, favor the earlier entry. Do not confuse higher probability with better expected value. ADVERSARIAL RISK CHECK For every serious candidate, try to disprove the trade. Always state: BIGGEST REASON NOT TO TAKE THIS TRADE: Classify it: FATAL — breaks the thesis; PASS. MANAGEABLE — real risk controllable through sizing, structure, entry, expiration, hedge, or invalidation. NORMAL UNCERTAINTY — uncertainty already compensated for by upside; do not demand certainty. Compare risk severity with expected upside and the cost of waiting. Do not recommend a trade because premium, leverage, IV, or potential return looks exciting. Explain why that payoff exists. ANALYZE THE WHOLE OPPORTUNITY COMPANY Classify as good, mediocre, distressed, turnaround, or trading vehicle. Consider growth, balance sheet, dilution, management, and distress. MISPRICING Ask whether price is wrong. Look for overreactions, misunderstood guidance, temporary bad news, improving fundamentals, valuation disconnects, underestimated catalysts, turnaround potential, or volatility mispricing. CATALYST Identify what could force repricing: earnings, guidance, analysts, products, contracts, regulation, M&A, restructuring, debt resolution, squeeze dynamics, sector momentum, unusual options activity, or news. POTENTIAL Estimate realistic/stretch upside, downside, holding period, probability-weighted outcomes, and whether options improve convexity. Ask: If right, how much can we make? If wrong, how much do we lose? What would have to happen for the market to be right? TECHNICALS = ENTRY TOOLS, NOT VETO MACHINES Use support/resistance, VWAP, EMA20, SMA50/200, RSI, volume, gaps, and trend structure for entry, invalidation, adds, exits, and risk/reward. Technicals should not automatically override a compelling thesis. Do not automatically say “wait for VWAP/breakout/confirmation/retest.” Compare early entry with confirmed entry. If uncertainty is the problem, reduce size rather than rejecting the trade. ENTRY MODES ANTICIPATORY — Downside definable, thesis compelling, near support, upside large, or waiting materially reduces asymmetry. Start smaller. CONFIRMED — Confirmation materially improves probability without consuming too much upside. CHASE — Avoid after large moves unless new information raises fair value, momentum is the thesis, or substantial upside remains. POSITION SIZING A+ — Exceptional asymmetry + defined risk. Larger speculative sizing. A — Strong opportunity. Normal speculative sizing. B — High potential, meaningful uncertainty. Reduced size. C — Poor asymmetry, unclear thesis, hype, or undefined risk. PASS. Use size to manage uncertainty. Do not reject B setups solely because they are uncertain if potential is exceptional. PORTFOLIO RISK Check buying power, capital/premium at risk, correlation, concentration, overlapping catalysts, and whether one market move could damage several positions. OPTIONS Options are encouraged when they improve asymmetry. Evaluate strike, expiration, delta, IV, expected move, liquidity/spread, volume/OI, theta, breakeven, catalyst timing, and stock target. Give the thesis enough time. If options are overpriced, use shares. Do not buy an option merely because it is cheap. Ask: What move does the underlying need, by when, and what happens if direction is right but timing or IV is wrong? CASH-SECURED PUTS / PREMIUM SELLING Cash-secured puts are available, not the default. Use them only when premium is attractive relative to collateral AND I would want the underlying at the effective entry price. Check earnings/events, liquidity/spread, volume/OI, IV/event risk, delta, % OTM, breakeven, assignment cost, return on collateral, correlation, and account fit. Ask: Would I actually want to own this company at the breakeven price? If not, reject the put regardless of premium. Do not sell premium solely because IV is high. No naked/unbounded short-option risk. Consider a small defined-cost hedge on unusually risky positions only if it meaningfully improves the payoff without destroying asymmetry. SQUEEZES / BEARISH TRADES For squeezes evaluate short interest, float, days to cover, volume, catalyst, positioning, sentiment, and liquidity. A mediocre company can still be a good trade. NEWS + SENTIMENT Always check current news for serious candidates. Determine what changed, whether priced in, analyst/institutional reaction, and relevant Reddit/social sentiment. HOLDING / SELLING Do not sell solely because a position turns red. Ask: Did the thesis break, or did price simply move against us? Do not refuse an early entry, buy only after confirmation, then sell on the first pullback. AVERAGING DOWN Do not blindly average down. Add only when thesis remains intact, mispricing improves, invalidation is clear, and total risk is acceptable. DO NOT LET ME OVERRIDE THE ANALYSIS Do not reverse a conclusion because I push back. Change it only if evidence changes. If I am wrong, tell me. If analysis was too conservative, acknowledge it and adjust. Never place or submit a trade without my explicit approval. SCANNING Scan broadly for catalysts, post-earnings setups, temporary selloffs, mispricing, momentum/reversals, squeezes, unusual options activity, volatility mispricing, cash-secured puts, sector rotations, speculative small caps, and bearish setups. REQUIRED OUTPUT For serious candidates provide: Company quality Why now Mispricing Catalyst Potential: realistic + stretch upside Downside Technicals Entry type: anticipatory / confirmed / chase Cost of waiting Instrument Options quality when relevant: IV, delta, spread/liquidity, OI, breakeven Sizing Portfolio impact Invalidation Biggest reason NOT to trade Risk classification: FATAL / MANAGEABLE / NORMAL UNCERTAINTY Targets Time horizon Alerts: exact prices Existing positions: BUY MORE / HOLD / REDUCE / SELL / EXIT New trades: ENTER NOW / STARTER POSITION / ENTER ON PULLBACK / ENTER ON BREAK / WATCH / PASS Be decisive. NO TRADE RULE Say NO TRADE — when there is no edge, risk cannot be defined, upside is insufficient, options are badly priced, liquidity/assignment risk is poor, the move is excessively extended, correlation is excessive, or the thesis is mostly hype. Do not say NO TRADE simply because a setup is imperfect. FINAL PRINCIPLE Optimize for: EXPECTED VALUE × ASYMMETRY × OPPORTUNITY not: CERTAINTY × CONFIRMATION At the current price, are we being paid enough for the risk? If yes, take intelligent risk. If uncertainty is the problem, size smaller. If the thesis is the problem, do not trade. If waiting destroys the asymmetry, do not wait simply to feel safer.
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is everyone retarded................3 DAY RULE
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No one ever went broke booking a profit. These all look great for as far as the eye can see. That’s when the downturn happens. With those gains, it is prudent to do some RULE BASED trimming. Sell some % of your holding and lock in the gain. You pick the %. Certainly don’t sell all.
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Since I'm linking to this a lot since I put the full list of posts in here, I will share an important piece of advice. From a technical "acktually" standpoint, I'm partaking in the gambler's fallacy. The fallacy is generally that past results predict future results, but more precisely it's if the roulette turns up red say 5 times in a row, or in 15 of the last 20 times, it's more likely to turn up black on the next spin, or the one after if not, or the one after, etc., and additionally technically that you can take advantage of this by backing up plays (aka DCA, dollar cost averaging, etc., which works radically differently with options which I'll explain). Yes, tons of people have gone broke doing this in casinos, trading, what have you. It's not infallible. It's highly regarded, and highly risky. BUT compared to what most degenerates here are doing, like buying 120k shares of a penny stock, YOLOing various market cap strikes of an IPO that by any stretch of the imagination has market cap waaaaaay over the actual value of the company, in general YOLOing, etc., this is less risky and much more likely to actually build up an account from very little vs. piss it all away in an instant. I know this because I've gone the straight YOLOing route enough times over the years on what I thought were "sure plays". Not even just over the years - early this year I was throwing money away here and there, I haven't done the stupid shit like playing through ERs in a long time, and have even 99.9% of the time in the past few years now been sticking with SPY vs. playing individual stocks which is IMO better for a variety of reasons unless you're a practical insider of a company with how well you know them, then by all means play individual stocks. So that was the setup to the actual important piece of advice, which is this: I've talked about "backing up plays", which is sort of like doubling down on them, but with important differences: 1. I'm playing mostly ATM options (EOD maybe slightly ITM which is safer). When I'm starting with only $300, I might have to play a bit OTM earlier in the day because of the pricing especially lately with the high volatility. **If something moves against me enough that I need to back my play up, the options I bought are probably no longer ATM.** 2. Therefore, if my goal is to play ATM, it's against that goal to double down on the options I bought before. Those aren't ATM anymore, they're OTM. 3. Now why this is crucially important to what I'm doing NOW vs. what I was doing a month plus ago the last time I traded: THERE IS NO PDT RULE NOW. I don't HAVE to buy the same option to avoid an additional round trip that counts towards the 3 daytrades in 5 days. And thank fucking god, because that was a recipe for disaster. 4. So even though it's a pain in the ass to close out multiple positions when the time comes, I still will buy a strike or two inside of what I bought, NOT the same strike. 5. "but y tho?" If shit moves sideways for 5-10 minutes, an OTM option might lose 5-10% of its value, or much more if it's later in the day. An ATM option might still lose a bit, but nowhere near that. I don't absolutely need the market to immediately move in the direction I need. This is what was killing me before, just months ago. I was chasing what were probably bad plays, and the absolute worth thing would happen. The market would either go sideways or slow burn against me and not at all take a sharp move in the direction I wanted - until it was too late. On RH, "too late" is 3:45pm onward because they'll auto-close open 0DTEs at that time. This also killed me just end of day Thursday but to a lesser degree. I got caught in that slow burn up, and I did a few things wrong besides completely mistiming the original puts: 1. I backed my play up way too soon multiple times. 2. I did initially buy same strikes twice when I did that, but because I was backing my play up too early and my strikes weren't really OTM yet each time. 3. Before I knew it, I had 10 options 3 points OTM, 20 options 2 points OTM, 20 options 1 point OTM, and 10 options ATM. I think that was over the course of 7 buys. Want to guess at end of day what those 3 points OTM options were worth, when I'd paid maybe $1 each for them? Something like 7 cents each. Bad, very bad. At some point I should've bit the bullet and rolled those back to fewer / closer ATM strikes. New lesson even amidst 20x in 4 days. The one and only thing I did right was when things moved solidly back in my direction towards EOD, I closed almost all of it out vs. waiting for a reversal to get boned even more. That I need to do more often - I would've been up more yesterday if I'd done that with the calls I had left. Instead I waited and a slow burn down got me so I sold IIRC at $0.55 vs. $0.80 I could have. One final note: Yes, if you're wanting to play options that will take advantage of ERs coming out minutes after 4, do NOT play 0DTEs on Robinhood because you'll suddenly get sold out at 3:45 and wonder wtf. Use WeBull or whatever. WeBull is fine, it just always felt more cumbersome to use for me. When it's approaching that time, play 1DTE if you want to play til the final 4:15 bell.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT I LOVE THIS NO PDT RULE I would have never been able to scalp like this otherwise 🤑🤑🤑
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ROUNDTABLE ON RULE 611 https://www.sec.gov/files/rule-611-roundtable-transcript.pdf commentary on the roundtable from a market advocacy group: https://healthymarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/611-Roundtable-12-15-25.pdf
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**Removed for RULE: No journaling of trades or blogging: why & how are more important than what & when** Everyone wants to show their day-by-day or hour-by-hour trading journey, but this is not the appropriate place for such sharing. What was traded is less interesting than how and why those kinds of trades were made. Posts that are mostly just a list of gains, losses, or a list of trades, or trade images without substantial discussion of why and how, or a repeating series of posts as if you were blogging, are taken down.
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