Back in the pre-AI days which I’ll now refer to as B.AI. I would spend hours searching the internet for articles on particular topic that caught my interest. For example, let’s say I read an article about the shortages of corn. We know corn is used as a food source but also an input into…
Category: Options Strategy
AI: KRE/XLF Put Options For A Correction
As AI has proven to be far more useful and knowledgeable than me on trading, I am now taking higher and higher risks with AI. My latest thought was to hedge against banking crashes so I asked AI to give me the best options on KRE (S&P Regional Banking ETF). I gave AI options data…
Hiding Out in Gold
The apps I use to find great options trades is having a harder and harder time of finding something to invest in so I made the decision to hide out in gold. It’s just one small position because I’m already invested in silver, and gold miners with hedged collar strategies. I bought 100 shares of…
Made 20% Return In One Day By Accident
What a crazy week. The volatility in this market has been insane. Yesterday I attempted to sell 10 contracts for January 2027 on a particular equity I own and I accidentally clicked BUY instead of SELL in the options screen. I quickly tried to undo it by selling them back but the market moved due…
Detailed Returns For One Account @ Fidelity
A reader asked for details on my recent post on my account returns. Because there are many components and options trades, I didn’t have the time to calculate the detail so I downloaded all the transactions for 2025 for one account and uploaded them to AI and asked it to create a detailed dashboard. The…
AI: Best Options Strategy For QQQ
Rank Strategy Income Consistency Risk Overall #1 Covered Calls (21–30D, ~15% OTM) High Extremely High Moderate BEST overall #2 Put Credit Spreads (21–63D, ~12–15% OTM, 5% wide) Medium Very High Low BEST risk-adjusted #3 Cash-Secured Puts (21–45D, ~10–12% OTM) Highest High Moderate-High Good #4 Collars Low High Very Low Safest Optimal parameters (from grid backtest)…
AI: Best Options Strategy for RSP
AI Response: Rank Strategy Income Consistency Risk Overall #1 Covered Calls (30D, ~15% OTM or 63D, 10–12% OTM) High Extremely High Moderate BEST overall #2 Put Credit Spreads (21–30D, 10–12% OTM, 5% wide) Medium Very High Low BEST risk-adjusted #3 Cash-Secured Puts (30–45D, 7–10% OTM) Highest High Moderate-High Good #4 Collars (e.g., 63D 10%/10%) Low…
AI: Best Options Strategy For SCHD
SCHD is one of my favorite ETFs. It has a nice combination of growth and dividend income. I am on a journey asking AI to tell me what is the best options strategy for instruments in my investment portfolio. Today it is going to be SCHD. I’m not going to post the long detail but…
AI: Covered Calls & Put Credit Spreads On TLT
AI continues to make me a better investor. As a follow up to a recent post about a new app for covered calls, I decided to ask AI to start validating my investment approach to many equities I am investing in. I wrote this post on AI determining what I had already thought, that covered…
AI, IWM And Options Strategies
I don’t know if AI is trying to placate me or if we think in the same way but it is satisfying that it is validating my trading strategy even though it sometimes has better ways to execute it. To that end, I’ve been investing a great deal in IWM for a while now, the…