Fear is usually overpriced. We sell options to the people who want protection and pocket the difference between what they pay and what actually happens — patiently, and only when the odds are in our favour.
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How we test a System
- Idea. We write the rules down and freeze them before any test runs.
- Backtest. We test on years of history. Most ideas die right here.
- Walk-forward. We re-test on data the tuning never saw — the honest check.
- Paper. We trade it live with fake money for weeks, before any real capital.
- Live. Real money — only after everything above has passed.
The strategies in this System
- S024S024 — Naked-straddle overpricing in mid-capsIn paper trading🔒 rules & data for members
- S015S015 — Earnings-straddle overpricing in mid-capsIn paper trading🔒 rules & data for members
- S012Setup: Put-selling on capitulation with a tightened market-vol-regime filterIn paper trading🔒 rules & data for members
- S011Setup: Put-selling on capitulation with risk-weighted position sizingIn paper trading🔒 rules & data for members
- S033S033 — Rolling-income covered call on a held ETF, DIA/QQQ × delta (buy-write pillar)Registered — queued🔒 rules & data for members
- S032S032 forward-paper track — buy-write DIA Δ30 + QQQ Δ30 (real chains)Registered — queued🔒 rules & data for members
- S014Setup: Put-selling on capitulation — combined filter + sizing + stop, with corrected gate arithmeticFailed — the edge was too small to matter.the record →
- S013Setup: Put-selling on capitulation — combined filter + risk-weighted sizing + max-loss stopFailed — the edge was too small to matter.the record →
- S010Setup: Put-selling on capitulation with a market-vol-regime filterFailed — it fell apart out of sample.the record →
- S009Setup: Put credit spread on capitulation in an uptrendFailed — the edge was too small to matter.the record →
- S008Setup: Put-selling on capitulation in an uptrendFailed — the edge was too small to matter.the record →
- S021Setup: Attention-spike fadeRegistered — queued🔒 rules & data for members
- S016Setup: Single-name expiration pinningIn the pipeline🔒 rules & data for members
Want the recipe, not just the result?
Everything above is public — including what failed and why. The exact rules, the data, and the live signals are for members. That’s the part you could actually trade.
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