This episode rips into the lie you were sold from kindergarten: do your homework, get good grades, take on college debt, land a “stable” 9-to-5, buy a house, grind for 40 years, then hope retirement doesn’t suck. We break down how the modern school system was never built to make you free—it was built to make you compliant. From its Prussian roots to today’s standardized-testing factories, the system rewards obedience, punishes curiosity, and slowly kills real independent thinking.

We’ll walk through how the debt-based university model and the corporate ladder are two sides of the same trap: keep you leveraged, scared, and dependent on a paycheck. We’ll also dismantle the mortgage myth and the “work ’til 65” retirement fantasy that keeps people chained to a cubicle while their best years bleed out.

More importantly, this episode is about escape. You’ll hear a concrete blueprint for getting out of the pipeline: questioning authority without turning into a victim, stacking real skills the market actually pays for, living lean on purpose instead of flexing for strangers, and using that surplus to buy or build cash-flowing assets. If you’re tired of being treated like a replaceable cog, this is your wake-up call—and your exit plan.

In this episode, We break down a fully mechanical 0DTE SPY put-selling framework built for one purpose: consistent daily income with strictly capped risk. No guessing, no “I’ll just wing it,” and no overnight exposure—just rules you either follow or you don’t trade.

You’ll hear how to:

• Structure a 0DTE SPY put trade using clear time windows: enter after 9:31 AM, flat by about 3:40 PM
• Pick strikes using 8–12 delta and 1.5–2.5% OTM distance so you’re paid for the risk you’re actually taking
• Set a hard daily loss cap (for example 0.5% of account) and use it to calculate your maximum contracts
• Decide when to cut the trade, when a same-day roll is allowed, and why there’s never more than one roll
• Take profits mechanically after banking 50–70% of max profit instead of trying to squeeze the last few cents
• Recognize no-trade or reduced-size days so you don’t donate capital when volatility and events are stacked against you

If you want a brutally honest, rule-driven way to run 0DTE SPY puts like a professional—where position size, loss limits, and process matter more than predictions—this episode is your playbook. 

Most traders obsess over setups. Professionals obsess over size. In this episode, we go deep into how real options traders think about risk, why position sizing is the single most important decision you make, and how pros avoid the portfolio-killing drawdowns that wipe out retail accounts.

We’ll break down the core principles from SIZE OR DIE – How Real Options Traders Think About Risk by A. Cordero, including why pros cap risk per trade at 0.25%–1.0% of the portfolio, how to size inversely to volatility, and why “no averaging down” is a non-negotiable rule if you want to stay in the game. You’ll learn how fractional Kelly sizing actually works in practice, how to think about portfolio-level limits on gamma and vega, and why survival and compounding matter more than any single big win.

If you’re serious about trading like a professional—structuring your portfolio so one bad day can’t end your career—this episode is your blueprint for disciplined position sizing, hard risk caps, and long-term growth.

This episode cuts straight through the academic hype and asks the real question: who actually has the edge in trading — the street-smart grinder or the highly educated quant?

Drawing from Street Smarts vs. Academic Intelligence in Trading, we break down why markets reward traders who can read people, adapt fast, and respect risk — not just those who can recite formulas and build complex models. From the blow-up of Long-Term Capital Management to the everyday mistakes overeducated traders make, we expose how overconfidence in theory can get shredded by real-world chaos.

But this isn’t a one-sided rant. The episode shows you how to combine both worlds:

• How street-smart traders can turn instinct into a repeatable system

• How academic traders can add humility, flexibility, and risk awareness

• Why pure “gut feel” is dangerous without basic math and risk rules

• Why pure “model worship” is suicidal when the crowd panics and correlations go to 1

If you’ve ever felt “not smart enough” for Wall Street or, on the flip side, wondered why your perfect models keep failing in live markets, this episode will punch through the illusion and show you what really survives in the arena.

In this episode, we rip the mystique off the Kelly criterion and turn it into a blunt sizing framework for options traders. This isn’t about entries, indicators, or chart patterns—it’s about the only question that actually decides whether you survive long term: How big should you trade when you have an edge?

We break down Kelly in simple, spoken language: how win rate, loss rate, and reward-to-risk combine into an “optimal” fraction of capital to risk. Then we punch holes in the fantasy. Real markets have fat tails, clustered losses, and correlated trades—SPY, QQQ, and big tech all get smoked together—so full Kelly is suicide. That’s why the real game is Fractional Kelly: quarter- or half-Kelly sizing built off stress-tested losses, not hope and margin limits.

You’ll learn how to think in terms of portfolio risk budget instead of isolated contracts, how to translate Kelly into max dollars at risk, and how to convert that into actual contract counts on your short premium book. If you’re selling options for income, this episode will force you to confront whether your current size is mathematically sane—or just a slow-motion blow-up waiting for the next volatility spike.

In this episode, we're cutting through the noise. The hard truth is most options traders are just gamblers, completely blind to the mathematical components of their risk. We're diving into the essential dashboard that professionals require to manage their portfolios: The Greeks. This isn't just theory. We'll break down how Delta defines your directional exposure and probability, why Gamma is the acceleration risk that blows up sellers' accounts, how Theta is the predictable time decay you're either harvesting or paying for, and why Vega is the critical measure of market fear. This is how you stop making simple guesses and start building structured, quantifiable trades.

In this episode, we're tackling a universal problem: dealing with difficult people. You know them—the selfish, the arrogant, the ungrateful. It’s unavoidable. We're breaking down Cordero's Stoic precepts for handling these encounters, and the core philosophy is simple: they can't actually harm your character. You are only harmed if you choose to react with emotion instead of reason. We'll discuss the practical guidance on how to control your own response, avoid letting their faults corrupt your inner state, and why endurance, understanding, and forgiveness are your best line of defense.

Summary of The Unlucky Investor’s Guide

Description: Our summary and commentary on Julia Spina’s framework: treat options like insurance underwriting—price edge, many small trades, fast exits, and disciplined risk. Concrete guardrails: IVR ≥ 30, defined roll logic, and portfolio delta/vega balance.

Wealth isn’t a vibe; it’s optionality—time, safety, respect, and control. We dismantle the “money can’t buy happiness” myth with hard evidence that well-being scales with income and power, then map the levers to buy back your life.

High intelligence comes with a tax: isolation. In this episode, we cut through the fluff and map the five-stage arc many sharp minds live through—Confusion → Frustration → Anger → Acceptance → Transcendence. We break down how perceptual differences create social drag, why constant translation exhausts you, and how to convert chosen solitude into leverage. Expect direct tactics: curate your circle with specialized groups, build emotional range so you can connect without dumbing down, and set rules that protect deep work. We also pull fast lessons from Tesla, da Vinci, and Dickinson—what they got right, where they paid the price. No romance, just signal. This is your AI-generated podcast—built to sharpen perspective, not coddle it.

What you’ll get: practical scripts for boundary-setting, criteria for “selective connection,” and a framework to turn isolation into sustained output.