Futures get most of the attention around here, but a chunk of the account runs a much slower strategy: selling cash-secured puts on index ETFs and large caps — the front half of “the wheel.” We’ve been running it live, automated, for months. Here is the honest report card, because it is not the one the wheel-selling influencers give you.
The pitch versus the ledger
The pitch: collect premium every week, and either keep the cash or get assigned stock at a discount you already agreed to. Win-win, supposedly. The ledger after months of live, automated selling: roughly flat. Not a disaster — but not the effortless income stream it gets sold as, either.
Why the easy money isn’t
You collect pennies in calm markets and hand them back in fast ones. Put selling is short volatility: the weeks that pay you are the weeks you didn’t need the money, and the week that hurts takes several winners with it.
Assignment clusters at the worst time. You get put the stock precisely when everything is falling — which is also when the “discount” you locked in stops looking like one.
Stale quotes will lie to you. A practical trap we hit with broker data: options marks based on a prior day’s close can be wildly wrong after a gap. If your bot quotes premium off a stale mark, it will happily sell risk for a fraction of its worth. Sanity-check every quote against a model before trusting it.
Where options data has earned its keep
The most valuable thing the options market gives our trading isn’t premium — it’s information. Dealer gamma positioning, computed from open interest, drives the daily NQ/ES levels in the sidebar of this site and tells us which regime the index is in before the session opens. That pipeline is documented in Dealer Gamma Levels Without Paying for Options Data.
The verdict so far
Premium selling stays on as a small, systematic sleeve — it teaches market structure and the flat result is real data, not failure. But if you’re choosing where an active trader’s attention goes, the futures strategies on the scoreboard have earned it more. As always: not advice, size small, and read the risk disclaimer.
Gamma exposure (GEX) levels — the gamma flip, call wall, and put wall — have become standard vocabulary for index traders. The usual objection is cost: professional options-flow platforms charge real money for them. But for end-of-day levels, you can compute a perfectly usable version yourself from data that is free or nearly free.
What you actually need
Options open interest per strike and expiry for SPY and QQQ — available from several free broker APIs.
A Black–Scholes implementation to compute gamma per contract. This is twenty lines of code; you do not need an options-data subscription for the math.
A futures anchor. SPY and QQQ levels mean nothing on an ES or NQ chart until you rescale them. Use the live ratio between the future and the ETF to project each strike level onto the futures price axis.
The recipe
Pull the full options chain with open interest for the nearest expiries.
For each strike, compute gamma and multiply by open interest, assuming dealers are long calls and short puts (the standard convention).
Sum across strikes to build the net GEX profile. The zero crossing is your gamma flip; the largest positive strike is the call wall; the largest negative is the put wall.
Rescale everything to NQ or ES with the futures/ETF ratio and plot the handful of levels on your chart.
How the levels behave
Above the gamma flip, dealer hedging leans against price moves and ranges tend to compress; below it, hedging amplifies moves and the tape gets slippery. Call walls act as magnets-then-resistance late in the week; put walls mark where hedging pressure is heaviest on the downside. None of this is a trading signal by itself — treat the levels as context for where reactions are more likely, and judge them against how price actually behaves when it arrives.
Limitations worth respecting
Open interest updates once a day, so these are end-of-day levels — they cannot see intraday flow, and 0DTE activity will move the real-time picture in ways a free stack cannot capture. The dealer-positioning assumption is a convention, not a fact. For marking next-session levels on an index futures chart, that trade-off is acceptable; just know what you are not seeing. As always: context, not signals, and read the risk disclaimer.
Claude Managing My Stock And Options Portfolio – See How It Did
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What’s going on? So, a lot of people have asked about this. This is not futures related, but it is stock and options related and AI related. So, basically, I am running Claude in real time and it is actually trading for me. Now, before you get all crazy, this is a paper account. I’m not claiming to be a guru. It literally says paper here. Uh I’m going to run this. This is a little project I got. I’m going to run this for
About a month or two. I want to see what the returns are and then I’m going to use it on my real money. I’m going to be sharing the portfolio with you. I’ll share the orders with you. I also have a brand new X account. If you want to follow along, my AI portfolio. I’m going to basically tweet out all the stocks that it’s doing each day. If you want real-time alerts, I’m going to set it up in the Discord. Also,
Be sure to subscribe below. I’m trading live on YouTube every day and you can ask me questions about this. You can ask me questions of what it’s buying, what it’s selling. Uh I’m on I’m on live, like I said, uh all day. So, be sure to come on the live stream and ask. If you like this, smash the like button. But, I’m going to go over some of the moves it made. Uh the entries it made. I mean, look at what
Some of this is. It’s getting It’s really like buying before the moves happen, like I just started this this week and I actually had an error with it on uh day one, which was Monday. I had an error. Tuesday, I got a little bit better. And then, it’s kind of doing pretty good Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Um But, yeah. I mean, it it found Hood way early. Look at $75. Found Hood. Uh I’m looking at I’m just looking at what it bought.
GM, Hood, Lilly. Uh smashed on Microsoft. Smashed Now. Now is a really good one. Um Percent wise, do they have percent? That’s just oh, total percent. There we go. So you can see what it’s up. I mean, 25% on stock, another 25% on stock. And then basically it sold AMD options. Sold these AMD options. Sold some ASTS options. And then you can see the only real loss that it’s got is this BKNG. Yeah, I mean this thing crushed it. I mean
This is just one week. I’m going to see what this looks like in about a month or so. But obviously I have given it some input. So it’s you know, there’s obviously prompts that I’ve created. It basically scans the market every hour for opportunities to buy and sell. Which is pretty cool. So it’s constantly scanning the market for buys and sells for selling puts. Buying or shorting stocks, selling stocks that it’s bought. It’s taking profits. It’s doing everything. It’s managing a
Million dollar portfolio right now. Um Yeah, I mean obviously if you don’t have a million bucks you could just and you only have a hundred grand you just take a zero off of this and that’s what you got. But I think overall this thing is absolutely crushing it. It found some big winners this week. Obviously the market is going up but I mean the market’s not going up 25%. And it wasn’t even working right the first couple days, but I mean
Like what are the odds of it buying Ford before Ford is up 10%? Like you know, like that’s not a name that you’re even looking to buy, but somehow call it new to buy it. Um I definitely did work with this bot. I’ve worked with it um for about So, I worked with it on it over the weekend last weekend. And then I worked on it on Monday once I saw some of the results. I worked on it Tuesday when I
Saw some of the results and they got better. And then on Wednesday, I definitely made some changes and then I let it run the last two days without doing anything. Um but obviously it’s going good. And uh I don’t know. We’ll we’ll stay up-to-date on this. If you have any questions on how I set this up, what I’m using to set this up, uh just just ask. Um I’m very open about this and [clears throat] let’s see where I can take
This portfolio. Uh depending on how it goes over the next month or two, I will be doing this in live money and then it really gets interesting. So, let’s see what happens and uh it’s pretty crazy how it’s finding big movers before it happens. But uh this whole AI thing is just wild and I decided to make um make a whole thing about this and uh we’ll see what happens. Any questions, comment on the video.
In this video, I break down exactly how I made $30,000+ in just 2 weeks trading futures while the markets reacted to the ongoing Iran war headlines—and more importantly, my thoughts going forward.
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What’s going on, guys? So, I haven’t made one of these types of videos in a while. Um, it’s going to be more focused about what’s going on in the market, the Trump thing, um, trading, little bit of everything. But, wow, we just had a crazy uh, crazy last couple weeks. Before I get into that, I stream live every single day. Uh, if you want, subscribe below. But, uh, yeah. Also, if you want to support the channel, be sure to use code
Cove Trader. It works everywhere. But, uh, yeah, over the last couple weeks, I I I made over $30,000. I mean, outside of prop firms, it was absolutely ridiculous. I didn’t do an exact P&L. It was probably more than that. Um, I was just looking through everything and um, I was away for uh, for some of it. Otherwise, I probably would have capitalized even more. But uh, you can see this is one of the days I had. I was up over 12
G’s, which obviously I made 30 in a couple weeks and 12 was like a third of that in one day. Um, it’s just I I’ve been selling stuff recently. Um, I’ll show you what I’m in now. People ask me this on the stream, so I figure I’d make a video about it. I haven’t really, you know, so this is what I got left just to go over everything. Um, the only stuff that’s down is I’m holding these leaps. This is almost
Two years out. Not really worried. And um so it says like so I’ve been writing calls against this so like I’m not exactly down that much money. So this is everything I’m in. And I’ve recently uh I recently just wrote these which were puts for next Friday to kind of protect the account. And this is my thoughts. So, you got to remember Trump is literally very much about keeping the stock market up. So, every time we’ve gotten these crazy dips, I’ve
Been a pretty big dip buyer. Um, right now I’m pretty much like 85% cash to be honest with you. I went I was probably 90% long by the time we hit these lows and I’m probably like 15% long. You know, whatever you saw there is what I got left. I’m not uh you know and I’m protecting the account. So, I just want to go over that real fast. I showed you what I was in and here’s my thoughts. like the markets
Don’t rip. I mean, obviously this was a China thing, right? We dumped, dumped, dumped, and then we bounced pretty freaking hard. So, people were like, “Oh, well, we could do kind of the same thing where, you know, we dipped and then we run up to 30,000 or something like that.” Is it possible? I mean, anything’s possible, guys. Um, but I’m just not into going long after we just went up, I don’t know, almost 4,000 points in basically 3 weeks, you know.
Um, if you don’t like buying on the way down, you know, that’s where the money’s made. The money’s made when it looks the worst. The money is not made when it looks the best. You know, you buying up here has a ton of risk. Yes, it could keep going, but also it could drop back down to 25,000 and still be bullish to me. You know, all you’re doing is kind of retesting this breaker, right? Come down, retest this area, and then
Go up, you know, and you’re like, “Oh, that’s not much.” I mean, that that is a lot. That’s quite a bit. Um, I see the Trump news. Trump just wrote Trump on Iran. Maybe maybe we will not extend ceasefire if no deal by Wednesday, but we will keep the United States blockade of Iranian ports. You got to remember the blockade. Iran sees if we’re doing the blockade that that’s not we’re not following the ceasefire. Like we talked about this on the
Stream. Um, I I don’t think there’s going to be a deal personally. Um, I kind of think there’s going to be no deal. I think a lot of people just made a lot of money right here. Uh, 30,000 point move on NQ is massive. A lot of people made a lot of money, you know. Um, man, what’s crazy is I loaded up in my kids’ college funds. I load it up in that account you saw. And then I also load up
My retirement fund. Like I know there’s guys that are much bigger than me and I can only imagine what they made that they got to be like, “Hey, like we’re taking profits here.” Like, you know, if anything, what’s good is they do no deal. This thing comes back down and it gives you another chance to reload. Now, obviously, for people’s sake, I want the ceasefire to happen. You know, you don’t want all this stuff that’s going on, but this market needs
A freaking pullback so bad. Um, also, you have the China thing coming up on May 14th, guys, where Trump is going to meet with China about trade talks. Now, that thing that happened in April right here technically isn’t done yet. I don’t think people realize that. That’s not technically done. He’s meeting in April. Uh not April, he’s meeting in May to kind of solidify uh the trade with with China. If he leaves that meeting and he is not pleased, I mean
He could do something stupid like he has in the past where you know he leaves the meeting and he just says hey 50% tariffs on China. I mean, then this scenario is gonna play out, you know, maybe not as big, but you could definitely just go down 3,000, like just 3,000 points easily. Um, so there’s a lot of things there’s a lot of things going on. Um, as we went into this weekend, they had the meeting going on. I did not
Feel super confident about it. I’ve been reading the headlines. Um, I read their headlines every day, but I was really focusing on them Thursday and Friday to get kind of my thesis and I felt 80% were not going to have a deal. So, obviously there’s 20% in there. The percentages were on my side. So, I’ve definitely have taken a lot of profits and now I’ve protected myself with QQQ puts and you know, that’s where I’m at. I’m kind of neutralizing my
Portfolio. Uh where I think for me personally, a pullback would obviously be the best. Um but I should have taken, you know, talking about futures, I should have taken some some futures contracts going, you know, going along also. I did not. But uh you know, those are just my thoughts about everything that’s going on. I don’t think this is the end. I don’t think reading the the the headlines, um, Iran doesn’t want to give up the uranium. Uh, Trump says that
We’re getting it. They said they’re not giving it up. That’s a big split right there, right? Um, there was just a couple things that that Trump was talking about that Iran completely said they’re not doing. And to me, there was too many uh too many things on big topics that uh I just thought that this this isn’t going to happen this weekend. And now it feels like he’s talking by Wednesday, which is now pushing this thing even further, which is now
Giving me more that this isn’t going to happen. There hasn’t been really any headlines out now. Um, you know, Iran’s vice president just said Iran’s in charge of management of the strait. That came out basically six minutes ago. Um, Iran’s vice president says either they give us our rights at negotiating table or we get in the battlefield. That doesn’t sound like they’re going to have a deal in 48 hours. um you know, just kind of doesn’t seem great. Uh you know,
Trump’s saying that the Chinese president is happy, but I don’t really know if that’s true. You know, I’m just reading between the lines here. China’s not saying that they’re happy. Trump is saying that China is happy. So, there’s obviously multiple sides to these stories. Um, so I don’t know. I that those are just my thoughts, guys. People have been asking my thoughts about this. I figured I’d make a video about it. And um, you know, I I made this was a
Really good move for me. And I think to me, my personal strategy, the move is done. Um, I don’t need many of these moves. You know this thing in April I made man I got in like April right here. I bought my last piece literally at night because you could buy stocks at night. I was on Robin Hood at the time. Um I bought my last piece when we were like super low, super super low. I was going to say I
We were at 165 when we did it. That’s about when I bought. I literally bought almost at the tip. It was in it was in like 10:30 at night at my kitchen table and I bought the last third like the last piece of my all in my account was all in at this point. Like I had no more cash was literally when we hit 165. I had all my cash. I was all tapped I was literally tapped out and I was
Like man I can obviously withstand it going lower but I don’t want it to. You know I had no more cash. And then we ripped um and I made a big freaking bag. But you don’t need like that one trade like you know everything I I was in like I didn’t need to trade the rest of the year. Like that made my whole freaking year in a month or two. Same kind of thing like this could do. Oh man. News release
Just came out. US defense official IRGC conducted at least three attacks on commercial ships in the straight since Saturday morning. Oh geez, it’s it’s unfolding why I’m on doing this video. All right. Uh but yeah, like I said, like if you made this, so I did 30 in that one account. I was I have a retirement fund that’s even bigger. I mean, I made a good amount of money. That’s not going to make my year, but I will say that was
A nice hit in the last two weeks. I kind of was hoping that we were going to go even lower.
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What’s going on, guys? So, another monster day on the live stream. If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe below. We made um I don’t know. I’m We’re up. We’re up a ton of money today. I mean, you can just see what’s going on here. Uh also, if you’re following my stock and options channel, we are up uh over 11,383 today alone. And that brings the total on our um year to date. We’re up $14,474. You can see we stacked huge
In a ton of funded accounts here, plus uh a bunch of funded accounts here. We’re over the buffer here for another payout. I just need the trading days to come in. Uh this one is getting close to a payout. This is over the buffer for a payout. This one’s getting close to a payout. And then I’m just building up all these Apex accounts. Um, also if you’re looking to support the stream, be sure to use code Cove Trader. Apex deal runs
Out tomorrow. Uh, Legends deal runs out tonight. Uh, there’s a bunch of other deals also. I have a link to everything in the description of this video along with a link to our free Discord. Um, but yeah, I thought today was good. I’m trading gold now as well. So, I’m trading gold NNQ. Um, I’ll be trading gold tonight in the Discord if you’re around. Um, but uh, yeah, a lot of these trades are taken live. So, if you want to ask
Questions why I’m taking them, I can explain to you the setups, everything else. Be sure to be on the live stream and ask. Um, but yeah, we absolutely crushed it today. Um, things were really good. I was, you know, things were just really good. I mean, you just kept winning. I think I lost like one gold trade and then we won some other places. Let me just run over some of the trades we took today. I played gold. I played the
Five minute break. We played this monster candle actually. It was great consolidation. Um and we we played this. That was one of my good old trades today. ENQ NQ was pretty good. Um, you could see we played I definitely played the breakout up. I played the morning trade. Uh, the morning trade came out. I think we played it to the upside. We took that. Um, I thought them I thought we moved around really well today. I I really felt like today
Was a good day to to make moves. And um yeah, I mean you could see once once we came back through the orb and the IB uh it was definitely short. I mean it was pretty simple flag break. I mean [snorts] it was pretty a lot of lot of simple things were taken. Uh and that’s pretty much it. If you want to go over these trades, be sure to be on the live stream and uh I’ll be sure to answer all
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What’s going on, guys? So, I’m going to go over Friday, the indicator that helped me out from Trading View. Um, my general bias about the market. Um, our take profit actually hit where I think we would uh on the daily. And, uh, before I get into it, I stream live every single day. Be sure to smash that little subscribe button below. Um, yeah, hit the like button, too, if you like the video. Uh, also in the description of the video is
A link to our free Discord if you want to come hang out. That’s where I stream live every single day in the morning for the open. Uh, we’re in the Discord. It’s me and a couple other traders. So, you hear a little bit of uh back and forth and uh it’s definitely pretty good. And if you want to support the stream, use code coprader. Uh, all right, let’s just jump right into this. Right. So, the last two days were kind of
Hard. Uh yesterday we had the dump pre-market um which was interesting and then we had the uh the pre-market rip the day before and then I think it was maybe Wednesday we had that fake Microsoft news. I don’t know things crazy but uh I took this trade pre-market. I am not a big pre-market guy. Um, I did take this, not the whole way cuz I am definitely worried about trading pre-market lack of volume and things like that, but I definitely took
This. You got a fivem minute outside bar to the upside plus an inversion. And this is what it looks like on the one minute. Really good. So, basically, you have the dumpsky. you inverted, you retested it, you held the retest, and then it was up. Um, I do get nervous pre-market, especially when we start just kind of chopping around because really anything could kind of happen. Um, you know, I like when there’s more of these solid type of moves. And then,
Um, my opening range trade hit. Uh, the problem is Quant tower was delayed and did not put my order in. So, I’m going to make a couple changes on that. But the opening trade hit also, which is awesome. And then, uh, on the daily, we had we had our TP hit, guys. This is where we went to. We were talking about this. The daily candle just freaking disappear. Cool. I have no idea what just happened. Let’s see. It’s the 4 hours
There. No, candles just disappeared. Let me fix this. We’re back. A little technical difficulties. Um so yeah, so basically I was calling for us to come back up, test this orange area, and that’s exactly what we did. Um that’s kind of where I’m at now. Yes, we can trade higher. Yes, we can trade lower. But we’re kind of in an area where I figured we’d come back, we’d retest these wicks, you’d hit this order block. Um now I kind of want
To see what happens from here. I’m not uh bullish or bearish right now. I think if we can consolidate here for a little bit, maybe like a dip day right back into this zone and then out would be bullish. Um I wouldn’t want to be trading below 25, you know, 100. Probably not not bullish then. Um but I’m going to be curious what happens. What I think is going to happen, I don’t know. Maybe we maybe we I’m leaning like 55%
Of the chance that we’re going to trade back up to all-time highs. How’s that sound? But I am uh a lot of the stuff I’m in, I’m starting to reduce my positions in my personal portfolio and things like that. Um but yeah, here’s what it looks like on the five. We basically hit uh we basically hit that area and dumped. actually was super clean. Dumped, consolidated, couldn’t make a new high. Couldn’t you basically had a failed uh bull flag and then
You had a fiveminute inversion which then obviously took us down. Um yeah, it was pretty pretty clean. It was a pretty clean day up until, you know, 11:30, I’ll call it, and then after that it was just kind of crap. As you could see, this is not that tradable. I mean, if you’re scalping up and down, up and down, obviously this probably paid for you. But uh yeah, it was just kind of uh super clean morning. And then kind of from
11:30 on it was kind of trash. So, you know, these are the indicators I have. If you’re wondering, I have a whole thing about what my settings are on each one of these. Um, yeah, it’s like last week I put the video out, I think. But I have settings on all these that are different than what’s normal. And that’s pretty much it. I I thought it was clean. Um, the last couple days have been kind of hard, especially if you didn’t
Catch the moves early on. And we just continue to grind on. I mean, that’s it. Uh, you know, got a payout this week. Uh my personal account actually I just looked at it kind of ended the week basically even. Um I took I took a loss and um I I’ll just bring it on. I’ll just bring it on. I’m basically at all-time highs. So if you got uh I’m basically at alltime highs and I’m holding some bags. How’s that sound? So
I’m basically at all-time highs and this is what I got going on. Um, a lot of this will get cleaned out, you know, because these are puts that I sold that are actually expired. So, like this is going to get cleaned out and I will technically make more money cuz obviously there’s when it closes there was a no bid and maybe the ask was 7 cents or whatever. So, they they have me at $14, but really that $14 should be in
My account. Um, so yeah, a lot of this is going to get cleaned out. Um, so this is what I’m in. And uh just start writing again next week, I guess, you know, but uh the ones I got stuck in is I’m stuck in net, which is not terrible. It is what it is, but it’s a small loss. That’s not this week, by the way. That’s uh I’m, as you can see, I’m just kind of writing small against it just to
Collect. I do think it’s going to come back up eventually. PayPal’s my big bag though. I’m down and I’ve added and added and added and I’ve been writing so I’ve been kind of collecting it back. And then um I took a little loss on SoFi. I’m not worried about that. I think that’s going to be over 30 by uh January. So I’m I’m not really worried. But that’s pretty much it. Other than that, we’re basically at all-time highs. The market is
Not at all-time highs, so we’re doing pretty good. And just keep going uh about it on Monday. Any questions, just comment. Peace.
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What’s going on, guys? So, I’m going to get into my exact trading view setup indicators I use that helped me make over $30,000 in the month of October. Um, I keep it super simple. The 30 plus thousand dollars is a combination of prop firms, uh me trading futures in my personal account, uh stocks, options, crypto, um the full amount’s probably closer to 40,000, but the fact is I don’t want to say 40,000 and then it’s like 39,000 when I go back
And look. So, I’ll just say 30,000. I don’t need to be, oh my god, you know, oh, I need the most amount, but this is what it is. I crushed it last month. Um, I’m not doing a end of the month review for money because I got a bunch of stuff going on today and I’d rather put out uh content that people can actually use. So, that’s what I’m rolling with. And, uh, let’s just jump into it. Before I do, I
Stream live every single day. Be sure to subscribe below. Smash the like button. Also, we have a free Discord if you want to hang out. The Discord link is in the description of the video. And if you want to support the stream, be sure to use code coprader. All right, let’s just jump into uh what I’m doing and how I’m using these indicators for uh for good. So, here’s the ENQ. We’ll start the NQ. So, here’s the indicators I’m using. Basically,
I have three different um IFVG indicators. So, we’re going to go uh FVG. These are the three that I use. Uh I changed the settings on them. This one, all I did was change the colors. Uh what did I do with this one? I increased the candle inversions and I took out require sweeps. The reason why is I could see the sweeps myself and I just want to uh I just want to see everything because I scroll out myself and I
Could see if it’s a uh bigger sweep on a you know higher time frame or you know something that is uh you know maybe just internal where we just take out you know this high or something like that you know so that’s how I keep it on the spaceman. Man, I basically just do the high and lows. So, I have high and lows of um I know it looks like a lot’s going on in here. It’s cuz I’m not really zoomed
In, but look, also it’s how the day played out. I have Asia highs, Asia lows, London highs, London ho lows, and then I just use previous 4hour um high and low. And then um new week opening gaps, new day opening gaps. I definitely have that on here. Um, I got VWAP. Usually I do this though. I have the bands off. So, I just have VWAP on there. Um, the reason I use VWOP is VWOP on Trade of Eate messes up. I
Got to keep scrolling out. So, I just check it on here to see exactly where I’m at. Um, and I have the pivot points. And that’s pretty much it. I keep it super simple, but um how I use this stuff is obviously I’m looking my main goal is to look for sweeps of higher time frames or sessions and then we come back the other way and my entry is usually a uh inversion to the upside. Um that that’s mostly how I
Use it. On gold, I I do the higher time frames, though. On gold, I’m playing the 1 hour and the uh the 4 hour mostly, which helps me out greatly. But what’s nicer on the NQ, which let me zoom out. Let me take these off so it clears up the chart. So when I’m trading futures, I get a general bias of where I think we’re going to go on the hourly or 4 hour. Something like this. we come up, we invert
To the downside. I’m kind of bearish, you know, I’m not looking, you know, I’m looking for a move down. And it just helps me in my overall trading. Also, when it comes down to owning stocks and what that portfolio looks like, hey, if I’m bearish on the futures on the NQ, I should probably be bearish on my personal portfolio, right? or protective, you know, maybe I buy some some puts, some protective puts to offset my portfolio. So, I’ve been using futures
Now to kind of determine what my exposure on my personal portfolio is and that’s been great. I don’t on that side, I usually go off the 4 hour for the most most part. Um, I take a look at the four like I played this. You can see my lines like this was awesome. And then I knew, hey, go full in. Like I’m I’m loving this. You know, there’s certain spots where I’m like, hey, like things are really good. Hey, we we
We broke over. Like I’m I’m in and you know, there’s I go pretty heavy on my personal and then I’m able to gain, you know, a lot more money than just playing on the future side. I’m playing on that side also. Um, and then the same way on the the downside, you know, I’m I’m looking for, all right, I’m bearish. Okay, cool. You know, I’m gonna protect the portfolio and we’ll go that way. But those are the indicators. I keep it
Simple. I don’t have a lot of stuff I’m looking for. I’m literally looking for us to take out some low or high and then come back through. um on the smaller smaller time frame during the day, I will play um you know the 15minut opening range and it’s kind of the same thing. Um, I’m looking for us to go break the 15 minute to the downside and then come back through to the upside or the hourly, the first hour um, of
Trading where we set kind of, you know, call it the brackets, you know, would be like down here and then we come we either hold or we sweep a little bit and then we come back up through. See how like this one was actually a mini little sweep then we came back through. I played that great freaking trade. Um, you know, just stuff like that. I’m looking to take out and play edge to edge. I’m not looking to jump in a
Trade in the middle of the range. I’m not looking to get chopped up. I’m looking for a good move down to come right back up or a solid move up to come back down as we saw the end of the day uh on Friday. And that’s pretty much it. I keep it super simple. Um, you don’t need to complicate these things. Uh, I think time in the seat will help you out. If you have any questions, come on the live stream
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What’s going on, guys? So, here’s the video everybody wants to hear at the end of the month. Um, you know, it’s the money video. The money money. Everyone wants to know how much money did you make? Well, this is that video. Before I get into that, we stream live every morning until about noon and then we stream live again 2:00 p.m. to about 4:30. We do account giveaways every day on the stream. Uh, also a link to our free Discord in
The description of this video. Uh, if you got questions about any of this, come on the stream and ask. Come in the Discord and ask. Uh, yes, I trade futures, stocks, options, whatever it is. I trade I trade crypto. Um, yeah, I I trade it all. So, if you got questions about anything, feel free to ask. Um, yeah. So, basically, it wasn’t the craziest month I’ve had. It wasn’t even that big of a month to be honest with you. Uh I
Got a small uh Robin Hood account. Uh we made this is the end of the month. The accounts up obviously. We did $3538 there. So that’s obviously uh not bad especially for the size of the account. Um yeah. So it’s 3500 there. Uh, let me pull this up in my Erade account. Now, mind you, I’m only doing my trading accounts. I’m not doing any my retirement accounts. I’m keeping it just what I, you know, basically intraday trading accounts. Uh, we’re up
11,994. So, I don’t know, man. I’m so [ __ ] shot after today. What is this total? What is this total just on uh 11 949 plus 35 38 so it’s $15,487. All right, now we go into the prop firms. So I got to actually look. I took out Actually, let me pause this and let me look because I didn’t even look yet. All right. So, now that I looked, I basically I’ve taken out $4,400 in payouts. Uh, in the month
Of June, I have another $2,000 already over. I just Fidas is making me wait until the payout window even though they’re getting rid of the payout window. I think they’re getting rid of it July 10th or 11th. So, I only I can only count 4,400. But what I do have, I have another $2,000 already over waiting to get withdrawn. Um, I’m already on day two or three of a top step account. So, only two more three more days to get a
Payout there. Uh, my funded futures, I have a funded account that is at $51,000 already. Um, I got some Apex accounts as you can see on the screen. This one’s halfway over there. See what else we got. I have a Fidas account that’s another one that’s about a th000 away from a $2,000 payout. I got a lot of accounts that are just about there for a payout. I think June was actually not I also traveled for a couple days in June.
I lost I lost three days of trading in June out of you know what is there only like 21 or 22 days of trading. So I lost three which is about 10%. Um, yeah, it it wasn’t I didn’t lose a lot of accounts, but I really didn’t do a ton of money in the prop firm world. I mean, I locked in, I guess, $6,400 of payouts. It really wasn’t the best month. Um, I want to say I slumped early on and
Then I just stacked a lot of gains at the end. That’s pretty much what happened. So, uh, net net, I’m not not going to count the tw the 2,000 that I already locked in because I don’t have the money. So, we’ll just say $6,400 to my number of 15. So, what is that? Plus $6,400 equals $21,887. And I want to say my expenses prop firm payouts pro I would say I know I don’t I didn’t add them up but I want
To say I probably had $3,000 of prop firm expenses. You know I’m not going to sit here and say it was a you know something small. Maybe it was 3,000. So I’m net positive with what I received. And then also I have the other 2,000 coming in also. So, it was definitely positive. It just wasn’t that great of a month where I feel like I didn’t really push the envelope. Um, I wasn’t going for massive days and I started testing out
Some some new stuff and uh it is what it is. You know, not every month could be the bangers. Uh, you know, not every month could be the 15 $20,000 payout months. Sometimes you got to do uh, you know, 6,400 bucks and you just kind of keep it rolling. you know, that’s pretty much what I did. Kept it rolling and uh it was what it was. And uh this month started off well tomorrow’s day, but we finished off really strong and
Uh we’ll just keep it going. So that’s where I’m at. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. And uh that’s pretty much it, right? See you guys on live
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What’s going on, guys? So, this is the monthly wrap-up. Everybody wants to know the money made. This is the question everyone has on their mind. Some people ask through the month. Um, so this is the episode you want to watch. Uh, before I get into that, we stream live every day 10:30 to noon, 2:00 p.m. to 4:30. Uh, and if you trade prop firms and you want to support the stream, use coupon code. It’ll automatically give you the best deals at
All the prop firms. Um, all right. So, I I guess I’ll just go run through it. The total I made was $30,869. Um, the only thing I didn’t add in there, I didn’t really trade my personal account that much. I think I was up like 1,500. I didn’t even bother opening it up. I have a personal account with Ninja. Uh, I think I traded it like three or four days all month and that was it. But, uh, yeah, so that’s the
Number. Um, right here is my Robin Hood account. This is a smaller account I have. Um, you can see it was up $4,600. Uh, you can see what I still have. And then, um, when it came to prop firms, I got payouts [Music] in what did I get payouts in? I got pays in Apex, Topep, Fidas, My Funded Futures, uh, My Funded Futures. That might have been it. The total for profit firm payouts was [Music] $10,30. Um, oh, and take profit
Trader. I I can’t believe I forgot that. Yeah. And take profit trader. Um the total came out to $10,30 in prop firm payouts. The total in stock and options that I made was 20,839. And like I said, I made another close to 1,500 trading futures in Ninja on my personal account. Um Erade completely messed up yesterday. So I went to pull this up today and realized the month is over. So, it’s showing me nothing. Those are just the things that I’m
In. Um, if you want to see, I posted some stuff through the month on my Twitter. You know, that was obviously a good day. I mean, I obviously had some really good days through the month and you could just go back and look. I tried to scroll through some of my uh I tried to scroll through some of my lives to see when I brought up on the screen, but I couldn’t find it. So, it is what it is. I also
Got some screenshots of my I guess my broker statement. Hold on. So, this is my broker statement from a couple of them. They do it they calculate gains as when I sell. So, I actually made technically more money cuz that’s a,000. That’d bring me up to what? 14,000 and then that would bring me up to like 18,500. But when I checked Erade, how I do it like with this screen, it was only 15,918. So, they’re saying obviously I made more money.
Um, but I always calculate my gains as the value of what I’m up at the current time and everything else, not when I actually sell it. So, I guess technically this is more correct because they’re realized gains and I made more money. So, maybe I made I don’t know 34,000. Like, I don’t care. Like, it is what it is. I’m doing this for you guys. Technically, I don’t even look at this. I honestly, unless you guys ask about it, um I
Would never have even went back through my month because I know I’m profitable. I see the account growing and Robin Hood just makes it easier. I can just kind of like look at it here. You can see I made a lot of money. I’m probably getting rid of this account. So, I really didn’t do much in it. So, I was waiting for everything to kind of settle and then I was going to withdraw the account. Um, but now I’m kind of
Sitting here being like, should I withdraw it because I made some options videos and it’s easier to use Robin Hood and they gave me that 3% cash back card. So now I feel like I need to keep the account because the cashback card I think gets paid through there. I got to look. But that’s where I’m at. That’s why I didn’t really trade much out of, you know, after the beginning of the month in here. But yeah, so I don’t know.
My roundabout was 30,8 whatever. Um, I’m making money. Obviously, that doesn’t include my retirement account. So, I had a good month. Uh, being that the NQ is so high now, I’m not looking to really build positions up here. Um, I would like to see some type of pullback before I really start digging in with anything, but we’ll see. I mean, I’m definitely selling weekly options currently, obviously trading futures daily to make money as well. But in stock and option world, I
Kind of want to see a pullback where I can get a better entry on some uh some companies. But it is what it is. I’m just going to continue doing what I’m doing and uh we’ll see what happens. If you got questions, come on the live stream, come in the Discord and ask.
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What’s going on, guys? So, this is the video everybody wants to see. It’s the money video. And I learned I should make this video at the end of the month because it makes things a lot easier, especially in my trading accounts um when I can just do monthto date on my trading software and it gives me it real quick. But, uh the total for the month I did is $13,250 in prop firm payouts. Um, my Robin Hood account, which is a
Small account, actually did $12,92 and my Erade account did $23,21. The total for that is $48,543. And then this month already, Erade is up $5,300 already. And Robin Hood is up. Jeez, is that I think it’s up $1,300. So, we’re up $6,600 already this month in three trading days. I also took uh a payout on Friday for prop firms that was $700. And today I am taking out a $1,200 prop firm payout. So prop firm payouts should be already at $1,900
And we’re up $6,600 in trading stocks and options. So just to go over what made it happen pretty not I want to say easily, but uh I I loaded up the dip basically. Um, we dipped and I had cash reserves and I bought a lot of stock and options low. I even bought overnight stock because Robin Hood allows you to buy overnight and I literally loaded up at the very bottom on Robin Hood on the platform. And uh and then when
We had this massive 11% candle up, I actually sold a lot end of day and then I ended up buying the dip when we dropped the next day and then kind of towards the end of the month uh started leaking out and selling some up here. So uh that’s pretty much how I played it. Um you know I share this stuff every day in my live stream. So if you’re not on the live stream, you should get on the live stream.
It’s uh we stream every day here on this channel and um yeah, it was pretty s not I play pretty simple, but I kind of played uh I kind of just said, “Hey, this is where I’m going in. This is the pivot point on the daily also.” So, that’s kind of why I went all in that night. It was like 10:30 at night. I loaded everything I had. Uh the rest of the money from the Robin Hood account went in there
And then um I was just kind of adding all while we were down here and then we basically just rocketed off that news unloaded and then uh that’s pretty much it. So things are going pretty good in stock and options land. Things are going good in prop firms. I want to get the prop firm uh payouts to like 25 $30,000 a month and I think I can. We are obviously up already this month to 1,900. So, we’ll just keep pushing that.
And that’s pretty much it. If you got questions or anything, come on the live stream and ask. Also, there’s a free link to the Discord below. You can go to the Discord and ask. And that’s pretty much it. All right. Hope you guys are having good months. also.
