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Tom, Scott, and Sol break down the real rules of a strategic career shift — why you should always push for a face-to-face interview, why chasing learning beats chasing salary, and why "done is better than perfect" when it comes to career moves. From there, the show shifts into a full trading segment with Dog Pound community trades in TLT, SLV, Coinbase, and ES, plus Tom's 5-step framework for scaling an options portfolio from small to serious. Callers bring real questions on put spread mechanics, how the Lossdog salary heat map will work across 400 US cities, rebuilding trading confidence after a rough stretch, and the Cerebras IPO pricing.

#lossdog #careerdevelopment #optionstrading #salaryadvice #stockmarket #wallstreet

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0:00 Intro and hockey talk

2:25 Market open: S&P, Nasdaq, Micron update

3:09 Why Wall Street always calls a bull market

4:37 Lossdog software and product update

5:49 Could you run for president?

8:01 Does the president pay for his own food?

9:40 A look at the market

13:30 Social media vs. news as a market driver

16:54 Dog Pound favorite trades: TLT, SLV, ES, Coinbase

22:50 Strategic career shifts: negotiate face-to-face

26:00 Chase learning over salary and benefits

27:08 Done is better than perfect — target a better job

29:30 Volunteer for leadership outside of work

30:45 The 30-30-30 daily career rule

31:36 Caller Vic in Florida: put spread bid-ask question

34:41 Vic asks about Lossdog salary heat map

36:20 Dog Pound poll's favorite trade SLV

37:35 Look at markets

39:06 Waymo and Chinese EVs — where autonomous cars are heading

41:43 Tom explains how to scale an options portfolio (5 steps)

42:30 Step One: widen your strikes or use higher delta

43:30 Step Two: Prove concept

44:44 Step three: Broaden strategy and product base

47:20 Step Four: Increase the number of positions and use static instruments

49:00 Step Five: Keep percentage allocations balanced

50:37 Caller Loki in New Jersey: rebuilding confidence after a rough stretch

54:29 Caller Les in Lake Tahoe: Cerebras IPO logistics and IPO pricing explained

55:30 How IPO allocation flows to retail investors

59:14 Options assignment risk — how to think about it

59:58 Market Talk: Nasdaq up 160, Micron up $42

The career pivot conversation is happening everywhere right now — remote work reshaped how people interview, and hybrid and in-person expectations are shifting again in 2026. Research continues to show that candidates who negotiate in person close higher offers, yet the reflex to default to Zoom has become deeply embedded. At the same time, the options market is seeing renewed retail participation as volatility gradually normalizes after a chaotic stretch, with many newer traders asking the same question Loki raised on this show: how do you stay confident when the process that worked for years suddenly hits a wall? The Lossdog salary heat map — covering 400 US locations — speaks directly to another pressure point: people want to know not just what they earn, but what they could earn somewhere else before they even make the call.

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One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

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Tom Sosnoff drops a history lesson on covered call ETFs—why QQQI, SPYI, and similar funds feel like free money right now and why 150 of their predecessors all went to zero in 2008. Scott Sheridan walks through his trades of the week including an Intel strangle with a 103 IVR, a QQQ naked call play, and a Microsoft put calendar. Then the show shifts to career mode: showstoppers and career stallers—the habits that quietly kill your professional trajectory, from refusing feedback to working in isolation. A caller asks about yield curve trades and gets a real breakdown of how to play ZB vs ZN, and the Greeks discussion gets honest about what retail traders actually need to watch (beta-weighted delta and theta) versus the noise they can ignore.

#lossdog #optionstrading #careerdevelopment #stockmarket #yieldcurve #coveredcalls

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0:00 Intro and market open

3:00 SiriusXM negotiation tip

4:23 Market look

6:53 Sports talk and show preview

8:51 today's topics

9:10 Covered call ETF funds explained

12:59 History lesson: covered call funds in 2007-2008

14:32 Scott's Trades of the Week

18:40 Market look

18:55 Career showstoppers and career stallers

27:15 Caller Mitch: yield curve trades explained

32:58 What's is the best baseball stadium in America

36:46 Do options Greeks really matter?

37:59 Beta-weighted delta and theta deep dive

42:17 Vega/Gamma risk is kept in line by buying power requirements

45:19 Beta weighting for overall position management

46:29 EWY trade story: when you do everything right

50:09 Ryan Cohen and GameStop's eBay bid

53:27 Market Talk and VIX analysis

Covered call ETFs have exploded in popularity during the 2024-2026 bull run, with funds like QQQI and SPYI advertising double-digit annualized yields—and retail money has been flooding in. What most new buyers don't know is that these products are structurally equivalent to short puts, meaning the same principal risk that wiped out 150 similar closed-end funds after 2008 is still baked into every share. Meanwhile, the options Greeks debate is more relevant than ever as AI-powered trading platforms promise to simplify portfolio management—the real question is which metrics actually move the needle for retail traders versus which ones just sound sophisticated. On the career side, the job market's ongoing reshuffling (layoffs in tech, AI replacing roles, compressed hiring windows) makes the "career staller" behaviors Tom and Scott describe—inflexibility, inability to collaborate, poor organization—more costly today than they were a decade ago.

ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG

One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

The show is the conversation. The platform is the tool. Together, they're designed to help you stop leaving money on the table and start building the career you actually deserve.

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Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan open the week with markets doing what markets do—silver ripping $5, bonds sliding, Micron acting like a meme stock for adults, and the VIX stubbornly elevated even at all-time highs. Tom breaks down his trades of the week: inverse short funds MUD and SOXS, a gold strangle, naked puts in Netflix, and fresh puts in Robinhood. Then the show shifts to something every working person can relate to—the era of the horrible boss. Has the gig economy finally made it easier to walk out? Tom and Scott get into gaslighting managers, micromanagement, work-life balance, and why this generation handles it all differently. Callers weigh in on hard taskmasters vs. truly toxic bosses, the market rally vs. unresolved geopolitics overseas, and whether oil calendar spreads make sense right now.

#lossdog #stockmarket #optionstrading #career #salary #jobmarket

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0:00 Intro & morning market madness

4:06 Market rundown: silver, gold, VIX, bonds, big tech

8:02 Question of the day and today's topics

10:18 Irrational Market and mechanics

11:29 Mechanics always apply

12:18 Caller Cyrus: Micron as meme stock for adults, weak dollar thesis

16:19 Tom's Trades of the Week: MUD, SOXS, gold strangle, Netflix puts

20:42 What is your definition of a 'horrible market': one direction only

22:14 Is the era of horrible bosses over?

28:18 Caller Barrett: hard taskmaster vs. bad boss debate

33:07 Work-life balance, hustle culture, and salary transparency

36:37 Market update & Fed chair transition to Warsh

39:12 Do you change how you trade in a crazy market?

40:56 Mechanics are supported by math - adjusting will not render a better result

42:00 Learn to accept market's irrational behavior

46:22 Luck vs. genius: how irrational markets punish the overconfident

52:20 Caller Mark: rally vs. geopolitics, oil calendar spreads

55:16 Iran conflict outlook and oil price forecast

57:57 Market Talk

The labor market and financial markets are both in genuinely strange territory right now. Employees have more information than ever—salary transparency laws, social media callouts, and platform tools are reshaping what workers will tolerate from bad bosses—yet many still feel stuck, undervalued, or unsure what their market rate actually is. Meanwhile, traders face a mirror-image problem: markets keep pushing higher on AI momentum and a weakening dollar even as geopolitical uncertainty lingers and volatility refuses to compress. Understanding when to hold your mechanics steady—whether that's staying in a job, managing a short position, or not chasing a meme stock rally—is the discipline that separates long-term winners from one-trade wonders.

ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG

One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

The show is the conversation. The platform is the tool. Together, they're designed to help you stop leaving money on the table and start building the career you actually deserve...

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Tom Sosnoff, Scott Sheridan, and Sol get into the must-have negotiation skills that most people skip — preparation, active listening, knowing your number, and how to make the other side's decision easy. They also break down how to trade a one-directional market at all-time highs without blowing yourself up, walk through real Lossdog customer trades in NatGas, TLT, IWM, and QQQ, and tackle the question every DIY investor faces: how do you cut through all the financial noise? Plus a caller asks about Hyperliquid and decentralized perpetual futures, and there's a first look at Lossdog's new AI-powered prediction engine.

#lossdog #salarynegotiation #stockmarket #optionstrading #careerdevelopment #financialfreedom

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0:00 Intro and market open — S&P, Nasdaq, chips

1:40 Sports betting vs. trading: the edge debate

7:46 Today's show topics overview

9:29 How to trade a one-directional market at all-time highs

11:04 Scott's strategy for surviving an ATH market

12:33 Tom look's back at 08-09 crash

15:58 Lossdog customer trades: NatGas, TLT, IWM, QQQ

21:10 Dog Pound Poll says 84% have not placed a sports bet in last 30 days

23:10 Market recap

24:17 Negotiation skills: knowing your value

24:55 Show confidence and know your value

27:04 Preparation and planning in negotiation

28:19 Active listening — the skill most people ignore

30:53 Should you accept the first offer?

33:01 Persuasion, assertiveness, and logic in negotiation

34:38 Quick look at market

35:57 Why the Japanese yen rallied despite QE

37:20 Caller: Hyperliquid and the future of crypto trading

43:56 How to filter financial noise as a DIY investor

44:39 Stay small and try out different products

45:45 Listen to and engage with like-minded people

46:35 Use logical and mechanical strategies

47:18 Own your wins and losses

48:30 Lossdog AI prediction engine demo: Solana and Dogit AI

54:18 Market Talk and show close

Today's episode lands right as most professionals admit they've never formally negotiated a raise — and pay the price for it. In 2026, with AI reshaping job roles and compensation benchmarks shifting faster than most salary guides can track, the ability to walk into a negotiation prepared, confident, and data-backed isn't just a nice skill — it's the difference between being fairly paid and quietly underpaid for years. Meanwhile, markets hitting all-time highs on a nearly 30-day run raise the same discipline question for traders that negotiation raises for workers: when everything seems to be going one direction, how do you stay rational instead of just going with the crowd?

ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG

One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

The show is the conversation. The platform is the tool. Together, they're designed to help you stop leaving money on the table and start building the career you actually deserve.

📺 Watch live: Mon-Thu 10-11am ET

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Tom Sosnoff, Scott Sheridan, and Sol kick off Monday with a packed show: markets are ripping—Nasdaq up 4,500 points in 21 trading days—and Tom breaks down exactly what he's doing when a bad short position gets run over. Before that, he shares the real reason trading knowledge gives college grads a leg up in job interviews: not finance jargon, but the ability to say "fear is measurable" and actually explain it. The crew also gets into Spirit Airlines shutting down, whether you should ever buy stocks at all-time highs, and Tom's favorite trades of the week including short Micron, short Nasdaq, yen puts, and a long bond play. Plus a big Lossdog platform update—18 AI agents launching in 13 weeks, a brand-new prediction marketplace going live today, and 1,250 new users getting access.

#lossdog #optionstrading #stockmarket #careertips #jobsearch #financialfreedom

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0:00 Intro and Monday morning catch-up

8:10 Overnight market recap: S&P, Nasdaq, gold, silver

10:27 Spirit Airlines shutdown and discount air travel

16:40 Question of the day: buying stocks at all-time highs

18:53 Favorite trades of the week: short Micron and Nasdaq

22:53 Yen puts and long bond trade breakdown

26:06 How trading helps college grads stand out in interviews

32:12 Why differentiating yourself is the only move that matters

32:38 Understanding how fear is measurable

37:35 Caller Paul: holding stocks through massive moves

40:44 Defending a bad trade in a runaway market

47:07 Lossdog platform: 18 AI agents, prediction marketplace live

50:00 How to onboard and claim your crypto on Lossdog

The job market for 2026 graduates is brutally competitive—AI is compressing the difference between candidates on paper, and interviewers can't easily tell person A from person B. What actually cuts through is the ability to demonstrate how you think, not just what you've studied. Understanding that fear is quantifiable (the VIX exists), that markets are predictive, and that decision-making under uncertainty is a trainable skill—these aren't just trading concepts, they're signals to any employer that you operate differently. Meanwhile, the S&P and Nasdaq are posting some of their fastest recoveries on record in 2026, raising real questions about what it means to be "right" in a market that keeps proving contrarians wrong. Runaway markets don't just hurt P&L—they expose whether traders have an actual process for managing risk when the world goes vertical.

ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG

One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

The show is the conversation. The platform is the tool. Together, they're designed to help you stop leaving money on the table and start building the career you actually deserve.

📺 Watch live: Mon-Thu 10-11am ET

📞 Call in: 989-LOSSDOG

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Tom Sosnoff couldn't sleep last night — so he traded all night instead. After one of the wildest overnight sessions in recent memory (NASDAQ swinging 500 points, gold whipsawing $120, the Japanese yen exploding 1,500 ticks), Tom, Scott, and Sol break down what actually happened and what it means for your trades today. Then the show gets real: five hidden mechanics of successful trading that most people still don't understand after 25 years, a blunt conversation about what actually kills team morale at work (hint: it's not burnout — Tom says that's made up), and a live debate on whether mission or money should drive a business. Apple earnings loom after the close, LIV Golf folds, and premium gas in Chicago just hit $6.16.

#lossdog #optionstrading #stockmarket #careertips #tradingstrategy #wallstreet

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0:00 Intro, burritos, and Sol's weight loss secret

3:07 Tom's U of I show tonight — how to attend

5:06 Tom vs. Tony video series debut announcement

6:45 Wild overnight session: NASDAQ, gold, Japanese yen recap

8:19 Earnings rundown: Meta, Microsoft, Google, Robinhood

12:15 Apple earnings preview and trade setup discussion

16:20 Question of the day: Does trading ever get boring?

19:30 Job challenges: communication gaps and the burnout debate

20:54 Heavy workload/burnout

22:30 Cancer in the clubhouse — how to spot and handle it

25:28 Lack of innovation and missing tech shifts as career killers

26:51 Technological Shifts

29:22 Mission vs. monetization: what actually drives great companies

31:47 Quick look at the markets

35:20 Hidden trading mechanics: trade size, taking profits, expected moves

36:08 The importance of trade size

37:45 Take your dang profits!

40:31 Know the expected move

47:54 IVR-appropriate strategies and why liquidity rules everything

49:36 Use liquid underlyings only

52:51 Recap

53:10 Trading SPX options 24/5 without a spot price — viewer Q&A

54:28 Market Talk: Gas hits $6.16 in Chicago: premium pain at the pump

The S&P 500 and NASDAQ are swinging triple digits overnight, the VIX is collapsing even as mega-cap earnings disappoint, and traders everywhere are trying to figure out what the market is actually pricing in. Sessions like this one are exactly why position sizing and liquidity discipline matter — not in theory, but in real time, when gold moves $120 and the yen rips 1,500 ticks before your alarm goes off. On the career side, the conversation about toxic team dynamics and stagnant company culture is hitting differently in 2026, a moment when AI-driven tech shifts are forcing every organization to either adapt fast or fall behind. Workers are reading the warning signs — communication blackouts, frozen innovation pipelines, leaders who set the wrong tone — and asking harder questions about where they actually belong.

ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG

One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

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Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan open with a live earnings post-mortem — Robinhood and Starbucks both dropped outside expected moves, and Tom's still holding the bag. From there, the show gets into why bonds at new lows make a Fed rate cut nearly impossible regardless of political pressure, and whether the NASDAQ's complete lack of fear is rational or delusional with Meta, Google, and Microsoft all reporting after the bell. On the career side, Sol leads a real debate about what actually builds a fulfilling career — meaning and personal fulfillment versus just grinding through discomfort — and Tom pushes back hard on every soft concept until something actually lands. A caller from Mumbai named Ashim shares a wild ride: stablecoin arbitrage in 2019, $5K to $35K to broke, then $120K to $1.7 million to broke again, now building an AI trading platform — and Tom gives him straight talk on what actually has edge. The back half covers why DIY investing is the next major disruption (think: travel agents, gas station attendants), how developing a probabilistic mindset changes every decision you make, and whether AI will ever kill strangle selling.

#lossdog #optionstrading #stockmarket #divinvesting #careerdevelopment #financialfreedom

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0:00 Intro & cinnamon rolls in Chicago

1:14 Earnings recap: Starbucks & Robinhood trades

3:55 Meta, Google, Microsoft earnings preview

4:29 Bonds hit new lows — what it means

5:02 Can the Fed still cut rates? The real debate

10:40 Question of the day: Overnight futures markets

13:16 Intro to topics covered today and quick market look

16:20 Will oil prices stay elevated until straight opens fully?

18:03 Career segment: what actually builds a great career

18:36 Meaning, fulfillment & working against your values

21:00 Engaging in work that is consistent with your beliefs

22:39 Maintaining pace to avoid burnout

23:36 Importance of being constantly motivated in your role

25:21 Invest in continuous learning to stay engaged and find opportunities

27:41 Risk-taking vs. discomfort — Tom pushes back

29:09 Caller from Mumbai: stablecoins, arbitrage & AI platform

35:13 Agentic AI trading tools — what's coming in 12 months

38:45 DIY investing: why control is the core benefit

41:44 Short learning curve

44:00 Building a probabilistic mindset — why most people don't have one

49:35 AI, market efficiency & what gets arbed out first

53:17 DIY investing cost savings — advisory fees vs. doing it yourself

55:19 Chat Q: Will AI kill strangle selling?

55:51 Market Talk: earnings strategy into the close

Right now, bonds are near multi-year lows while crude oil sits above $100 and the NASDAQ trades near all-time highs — a combination that would historically scream "no rate cuts coming" but is happening at the same moment political pressure on the Fed is louder than it's been in decades. The DIY investing conversation isn't just a finance hobby debate: with AI compressing the learning curve for retail traders and advisory fee structures that haven't budged despite assets under management growing tenfold, the case for self-directed investing has never been stronger or more urgent. The agentic AI trading tools discussion is particularly well-timed — platforms are beginning to give individual traders capabilities that used to require institutional infrastructure, and figuring out where real edge still exists (probabilistic positioning, volatility selling) versus where it's already been arbed away is the question every serious retail trader needs to answer now.

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Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan open today with the story of Munetaka Murakami — the Japanese slugger every MLB team passed on, now leading the league in home runs for the White Sox — and why overanalyzing talent kills deals. From there, Tom gets into one of the most practical questions in options trading right now: what's the real move when you're stuck in a bad short position while the market just keeps climbing? The answer is reduce your size — and Tom and Scott break down exactly why covering is the worst thing you can do. Then it's career mode: the real difference between a leader and a boss, why leaders are driven by trust while bosses are driven by position, and how to tell which one you're actually working for. Callers weigh in on backtesting with AI, concentration risk after selling a company, and managing currency exposure.

#lossdog #optionstrading #careerdevelopment #stockmarket #leadership #investing

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0:00 Intro and Murakami home run story

7:05 Welcome and show topics preview

10:59 Earnings calendar: Google, Microsoft, Meta tomorrow

13:40 How to defend a bad short position at record highs

16:31 Be a leader not a boss — career segment

19:26 Leaders vs bosses breakdown

21:09 Leaders focus on people

22:21 Management style filters down from the top

27:12 Leaders vs bosses final recap

24:09 Starting from the bottom

25:02 Leaders coach and support - don't stay on sidelines

27:01 Leaders are all in

28:01 Leaders vs bosses recap

28:57 Markets check — S&P, Nasdaq, Bitcoin, crypto giveaway

33:40 Open mic — Mitch from Albany on backtesting and AI

38:58 Japan stocks and trading international markets

40:01 US market openness vs isolationist policy debate

44:55 Staying long without being passive — covered calls vs puts

45:20 Nobody should ever be passive

45:33 There are always tasks to complete

46:57 Long position at new highs, learn to improve your cost basis

48:01 Short at record highs - learn to reduce your delta and position size

49:20 If you are neutral at record highs - learn to be capital efficient

51:06 The danger of complacency at record highs

53:28 Caller Mike from PA — concentration risk and currency exposure

58:12 Market Talk — S&P, Nasdaq, Spotify, Netflix

The gap between a "boss" and a "leader" has always existed in corporate culture, but it's becoming a defining factor in whether employees stay or walk — especially in 2026, when the labor market is forcing companies to compete harder for talent than ever. Meanwhile, the S&P's 150-day rally has put options traders in an uncomfortable spot: short positions that looked reasonable weeks ago are now deeply underwater, and the instinct to fight back by adding complexity often makes things worse. Tom and Scott's answer — reduce size first, always — runs counter to how most retail traders respond under pressure, and it's a lesson the Murakami story makes surprisingly concrete. AI-powered backtesting is also changing what's possible for individual traders overnight, collapsing workflows that once took institutional teams months into a matter of seconds.

ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG

One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

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Tom Sosnoff, Scott Sheridan, and Sol kick off the week with three real topics that hit harder than they sound. Does selling options before the weekend actually give you an edge? Tom and Scott settle it with data from their trading floor days — and the answer isn't what most people expect. Then the show gets into overcoming skill gaps: why accepting challenges beats credentials every time, and why most people who say they want honest feedback... really don't. The back half covers how to stop being an unlucky investor, with a caller asking the question everyone wonders about — how much money is actually enough? Plus live market talk on NASDAQ, chip stocks vs. software, Micron, NVIDIA, Apple, the incoming Fed chair, and a live-on-air decision to buy Lucid (LCID) stock.

#lossdog #optionstrading #investing #careerdevelopment #stockmarket #salary

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0:00 Intro & Chicago weather

2:42 Markets update: S&P, NASDAQ, Micron

5:41 Show topics overview

11:19 Question of the day: Selling options before the weekend

13:29 Overcoming skill gaps

16:31 Leverage mentorship and upskilling

24:01 Prioritizing capabilities over credentials

25:41 Honest feedback: do people actually want it?

29:14 Ask Me Anything call-in opens

29:36 Caller Charlie: How much money is "enough"?

34:38 Caller Barak: Options management in low volatility

37:33 Caller Simon: Lucid (LCID) stock — buy or pass?

43:26 How to avoid becoming an unlucky investor

47:55 Build a culture of winning and take profits

50:27 Respect randomness and the law of large numbers

54:34 Final market talk: bonds, Fed chair, chip vs. software pairs trade

The job market and investing landscape in 2026 are both testing people's patience and judgment in similar ways — volatility, uncertainty, and a flood of noise from people who sound confident but aren't. Skill gaps are widening as AI reshapes what companies actually need from employees, making the ability to adapt and upskill more valuable than any credential on a resume. On the investing side, a market that can shrug off geopolitical chaos and stay near all-time highs is exactly the environment where bad habits — chasing tips, going all-in, ignoring diversification — quietly do the most damage. The parallels between career risk and portfolio risk are real: both reward people who stay small, stay curious, and make their own calls.

ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG

One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

The show is the conversation. The platform is the tool. Together, they're designed to help you stop leaving money on the table and start building the career you actually deserve.

📺 Watch live: Mon-Thu 10-11am ET

📞 Call in: 989-LOSSDOG

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Tom Sosnoff, Scott Sheridan, and Sol get into one of the sharpest career debates on the show yet: is there ever a real reason to change your career path just for the sake of change? Sixty-eight percent of the audience says yes — Tom and Scott disagree on why. They also answer a new investor's two-part question: where do you actually start, and who should you be listening to? Plus, Tom breaks down why he won't trade certain stocks (the penalty box is real), walks through his bearish case on Microsoft at current levels, and the crew recaps one of the wildest NASDAQ runs in recent memory — 4,000 points in 16 days. A caller weighs in on media mergers and liquidity, and Tom shares the story of teaching his daughter to trade futures — and what happened when she picked the exact bottom to go short.

#lossdog #careerchange #stockmarket #newinvestor #optionstrading #nasdaq

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro and opening banter

4:08 Show preview and question of the day

7:36 Tom's Bloomberg TV appearance story

13:06 Stocks you refuse to trade — the penalty box

15:41 Career change debate: quit just for the sake of it?

21:17 AI and new growth sectors as career opportunity

29:06 NASDAQ up 4,000 points in 16 days

31:27 The NYSE floor is now a TV studio

35:17 Career change poll: 68% say yes

36:31 Lossdog software preview and AI tools update

38:01 New investor Q: where do I start?

41:52 New investor advice: start small, stay liquid

48:33 Microsoft stock: bearish case and when to sell

51:57 Teaching a daughter to trade — and the futures disaster

58:22 CARR short squeeze recap and show close

The job market in 2026 is forcing a lot of people to rethink not just where they work, but what kind of work they want to do at all. Career pivots used to carry stigma; now with AI reshaping entire industries — from software to finance to media — sitting still in the wrong role carries its own risk. The debate on this show cuts to something most career advice skips: the difference between changing because you have to and changing because you're choosing to, and why that distinction matters more than most people realize. On the markets side, the speed of the recent NASDAQ recovery — 4,000 points in under three weeks — is a reminder that trying to time sentiment-driven moves is nearly impossible, and that the discipline of knowing what you won't trade matters just as much as knowing what you will.

ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG

One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

The show is the conversation. The platform is the tool. Together, they're designed to help you stop leaving money on the table and start building the career you actually deserve.

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