Jason Loungo @_JasonCapital

Selling puts might be the most misunderstood edge in the market. Here's why I think every serious investor should learn it: 1. Theta is on your side. Every day that passes, the contract you sold loses value. That's money in your pocket. You're not fighting time decay - you're collecting it. 2. You don't need to be directionally right. Stock goes up? You win. Stock stays flat? You win. Stock drops a little but stays above your strike? You still win. You only lose if the stock drops hard below your strike - and even then, you're buying a stock you chose at a price you picked. 3. You don't need to time the market. Most people lose money trying to nail the perfect entry. Put sellers skip that game entirely. You name a price you're comfortable buying at and get paid while you wait. 4. You can sell puts on margin and pay zero interest. This is the part most people don't know. When you buy stock on margin, you're borrowing your broker's money and paying interest on it. When you sell a put on margin, it's treated as collateral - not a loan. No interest charges while the put is open. Important note: if you get assigned on a margin put, you're now holding shares on margin and will be charged interest at that point. Plan accordingly. 5. Time is your edge, not your enemy. Most option buyers need the stock to move fast enough to outrun decay. Sellers just need the stock to not collapse. That's a fundamentally easier bet. Selling cash-secured puts is one of the most beginner-friendly option strategies there is. You pick a stock, you pick a price, and you get paid to wait. The margin side is more advanced, you need to understand margin requirements, position sizing, and how assignment works before you go that route. But the core strategy? Anyone can learn it.

You could buy 100 shares of $ASTS right now for $7,800. Or you could buy the $70 call LEAP expiring January 2028 for $4,000. Same directional exposure. ~49% less capital. Over 600 days of runway. The trade: Strike: $70 Expiration: January 16, 2028 Premium: ~$40.00 per contract Breakeven: $110 If $ASTS hits $150, this LEAP returns ~100% If $ASTS hits $175, this LEAP returns ~163% If $ASTS hits $200, this LEAP returns ~225% Buying 100 shares at $78 and watching it hit $200 is a ~156% return. The LEAP returns 225% on roughly half the capital. Why I like the setup: - BlueBird 7 was lost due to a Blue Origin launch failure - not an AST technology problem. Satellite was insured. - BlueBirds 8-10 ready to ship within 30 days - Company reaffirmed the 45-satellite 2026 deployment target - First nationwide LEO cellular service in the U.S. launching this year - $1B+ contracted revenue backlog - $3.9B in liquidity after the $1.075B convertible notes raise - Revenue projected to hit $2.1B by 2028 - 640 days to expiration gives the thesis time to play out past the full satellite deployment timeline The max you can lose on a LEAP is the entire premium you paid. In this case, that's $4,000 per contract. LEAPs are leveraged and can lose value quickly if the stock drops or stays flat. Only size this so you're comfortable losing all of it. Note: LEAPs are one tool inside a broader portfolio. Owning shares is always the primary use of capital. This is a selective add-on for high-conviction moments when conditions align. NFA DYOR

30 DTE is where I like to sell my cash-secured puts. Here's why: 1. Theta decay accelerates here. At 60 DTE, time decay barely moves. At 30 DTE, it's working hard for you every single day without the gamma stress of the final week. 2. Premium vs. risk is optimized. Go further out and you tie up capital for months for marginally more premium. Go shorter and you're taking on assignment risk with no room to adjust. 3. Capital rotation speeds up. I close at 50% profit, which usually happens in 7-14 days. Then I redeploy into the next setup. Compounding beats waiting. 4. Adjustments are cleaner. If the stock moves against me at 30 DTE, I still have time to roll, manage, or take assignment on my terms. At 7 DTE? You're reacting, not managing. My framework: 0.20 delta, 30 DTE, 50% profit target. It's not flashy. It doesn't produce screenshot-worthy single trades. It produces consistent income month after month.

A SpaceX IPO at $1.75 trillion likely forces the market to look beyond rockets and start repricing the full supply chain beneath the space economy. Here's the map, sector by sector:

15 signs you're becoming a successful options trader: - You don't sell puts on stocks you wouldn't want to own - Assignment doesn't scare you - it's the plan - You close at 50% profit and don't look back - You sell into high IV instead of buying into it - You size the position before you check the premium - You can sit in cash for weeks without feeling like you're missing out - You've stopped buying weekly calls - Losing months don't make you abandon your framework - You think in annualized return, not dollar amount - You don't revenge trade after getting assigned below your cost basis - You know the difference between a cheap contract and a good one - You've stopped trying to time the exact bottom - Your best trading weeks feel boring - You journal every trade - winners and losers - You're still here

Growth stocks I'm watching right now: $IREN | $48.18 - AI data center infrastructure, 4.5 GW pipeline, largest single-site build in the US $CRDO | $164.09 - AI connectivity, 1.6T optical DSPs in 3nm, just acquired DustPhotonics for $750M $AEHR | $84.49 - AI chip testing, TAM expanding 3-5x beyond SiC into GaN and silicon photonics $HIMS | $27.12 - Telehealth + owned pharmacy network, licensed care model that's hard to replicate $ZETA | $17.87 - AI-powered marketing platform, 56% off its all-time high $OUST | $24.41 - Digital LiDAR on a silicon chip, SAFE LiDAR Act is a policy tailwind $OSS | $9.95 - Ruggedized edge AI compute, guiding 20-25% revenue growth, new energy node contracts $IBRX | $7.31 - ANKTIVA immunotherapy, $44M Q1 revenue, EU conditional approval in Feb

I've been trading options for 10 years. Here is everything you need to know about LEAPS:

7 stocks I think still have a lot of room to run, even after this melt-up: $HIMS ($26) - FDA peptide panel July 23-24. Hims already owns a California peptide facility. Dudum has peptide therapies teed up as the next product line. $IREN ($49) - Sweetwater 1 energizing this month. 1.4GW online, 2.75GW total in West Texas. $ONDS ($10) - World View deal stacks on top of drone defense. Analyst PTs $20-25. $NVDA ($197) - $500B backlog through 2026. Data center revenue +75% YoY. Rubin ramps 2H. $AMZN ($248) - Jassy's shareholder letter pegged AWS AI revenue at a $15B run rate with demand still outstripping capacity. Amazon is the single largest outside investor in Anthropic. $SOFI ($19) - Crypto back on the platform. Student loan refi tailwind. Real profitability scale. $ZETA ($17) - AI-native martech data moat. Oversold after the guidance cut.

5. $SMR - NuScale Power NuScale has the only NRC-approved small modular reactor design in the United States. That regulatory head start matters. Down 43% this year and burning cash - this is the highest risk name on the list. But if SMRs become the standard for distributed power, NuScale got there first.

Pretty soon, everyone will be using AI to help them trade profitably. In this video Mathew walks you through step by step on how to connect the @public API to Perplexity Computer. You can do your research and trade execution in one chat.

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6 months ago I was running 4 monitors, 3 tabs of options chains. Missing entries because I was too slow switching between research and broker. Every "AI trading tool" I tried made the research faster and ignored the execution completely. Then I connected @perplexity_ai to the

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I make thousands each week buying and selling options. Not because I'm smarter than anyone else. Because I built a system. Here's the entire framework in one thread:

AI needs power. Nuclear is the answer. 5 stocks I think every investor should be watching: 1. $LEU - Centrus Energy Centrus doesn't just sell uranium. It's the only US company producing HALEU - the advanced fuel that next-gen reactors need to run. The DOE just awarded them $900M to expand enrichment at their Ohio plant. $3.8B backlog locked in through 2040. No domestic competitor can do what they do.

You could buy 100 shares of $HOOD right now for $8,000. Or you could buy the $80 call LEAP expiring June 2027 for $2,600. Same directional exposure. 67% less capital. Over a year of runway. The trade: Strike: $80 Expiration: June 17, 2027 Premium: ~$26.00 per contract Breakeven: $106 If $HOOD hits $120, this LEAP returns ~54% If $HOOD hits $140, this LEAP returns ~131% If $HOOD hits $160, this LEAP returns ~208% Buying 100 shares at $80 and watching it hit $160 is a 100% return. The LEAP more than doubles that. Why I like the setup: - Q4 revenue hit $1.3B, up 27% YoY - Platform assets grew 70% YoY to $324B - Gold subscribers at 4.2M, up 60% YoY - $1.5B share buyback authorized - Q1 earnings on April 28 - next catalyst - Expanding beyond trading into banking, retirement, and crypto infrastructure - 428 days to expiration gives the thesis time to play out The max you can lose on a LEAP is the entire premium you paid. In this case, that's $2,600 per contract. LEAPs are leveraged and can lose value quickly if the stock drops or stays flat. Only size this so you're comfortable losing all of it. Note: LEAPs are one tool inside a broader portfolio. Owning shares is always the primary use of capital. This is a selective add-on for high-conviction moments when conditions align. NFA DYOR

The 10-step LEAP system I use for every entry: 1. Never put more into a LEAP than you're willing to lose entirely 2. Watchlist of 5-7 high-conviction names only 3. Wait for oversold conditions 4. Confirm price is at key support 5. Check IV is low - don't overpay for time 6. Buy 360+ days out minimum 7. Strike ~10% OTM - far OTM is a trap 8. Keep total LEAP exposure under 10% of your portfolio 9. Consider selling half at 100% gain 10. Let the rest run until 60 DTE Free LEAPS cheat sheet in comments below 👇

$84 trillion is about to change hands from boomers to millennials and Gen Z. It's the largest wealth transfer in history. And most of that money isn't going to Fidelity or Schwab. It's going to Robinhood. Here's why I think $HOOD is the #1 brokerage to capture this shift. The audience is already there. 27 million funded accounts. 4.2 million Gold subscribers. The median user is 35. Three quarters of their customers are under 43. These are the people inheriting the money. They're not a brokerage anymore. Commission-free trading was the entry point. Now it's a financial super-app. Trading. Retirement. Banking. Credit card with uncapped 3% cash back. 3.35% APY on cash. Futures. Crypto. Options. All in one app. The Gold Card is a Trojan horse. Get a 20-something using the credit card for daily spending. Cash back goes into their brokerage account. Now they're investing without thinking about it. That's how you capture a generation. The IRA match creates stickiness. 3% match on IRA contributions for Gold members. That's free money for opening a retirement account. And it keeps assets on the platform for decades. They're going global. UK ISAs launched in February. Crypto futures in Europe. They're not waiting for the wealth transfer to come to them. $4.5B revenue in 2025. Up 52% YoY. $322B in platform assets. $68B in net deposits last year alone. The boomers built wealth on Schwab and Fidelity. Their kids are going to manage it on Robinhood. Most people still think of $HOOD as the meme stock app. That's the opportunity.

Every industry has an incumbent that stopped innovating. These companies are coming for their lunch: $HOOD - brokerage $SOFI - banking $OSCR - health insurance $PLTR - enterprise software $NBIS - data centers $TSLA - autonomous vehicles $RKLB - space launch $ASTS - satellite internet $DOCN - cloud infrastructure $ZETA - marketing technology $IBRX - cancer treatment $LEU - nuclear fuel $OSS - edge AI computing $IREN - AI infrastructure $AMPX - battery technology $ONDS - drones and defense $AMZN - everything Who am I missing?

The companies building AI data centers, ranked by market cap: $CRWV $115.25 - ~$55B CoreWeave. GPU cloud king. Acquired Core Scientific. The largest pure-play AI compute company on the market. $NBIS $159.89 - ~$32B Nebius. $17B+ Microsoft Azure deal. Targeting $7-9B annualized revenue by end of 2026. $IREN $45.15 - ~$14B 4.5 GW pipeline. $9.7B Microsoft contract. Largest single-site AI data center buildout. $WULF $20.00 - ~$8.4B TeraWulf. Zero-carbon AI data centers. Lake Mariner facility. 100% nuclear and hydro powered. $APLD $28.72 - ~$7.9B Applied Digital. HPC hosting and GPU cloud. Building 400MW campus in North Dakota. $HUT $72.30 - ~$7.7B Hut 8. AI compute + managed infrastructure. Diversified across mining, hosting, and cloud. $CIFR $18.30 - ~$6.7B Cipher Digital. HPC and AI data center operator. Expanding capacity across Texas. $CORZ $19.25 - ~$5.8B Core Scientific. HPC hosting pioneer. Being acquired by CoreWeave. $BTDR $11.69 - ~$2.7B Bitdeer. ASIC chip design + AI compute. Building custom silicon alongside hosting. $CLSK $11.15 - ~$2.5B CleanSpark. Mining operations scaling into AI hosting infrastructure. This space is moving fast. A year ago half these names were Bitcoin miners. Now they're selling compute to Microsoft, Meta, and the hyperscalers. Bookmark this.

I've been trading options for over 10 years. LEAPs changed everything. What they are: - Long-term options expiring 1-2 years out - You control 100 shares for a fraction of the cost - Leveraged exposure, not the same as owning shares How I use them: - Strike depends on conviction. Deep ITM for safer plays, ATM or one strike OTM for higher upside. - 12+ months to expiration minimum. - High conviction names with a 1-2 year thesis. - Never more than 10-15% of my portfolio. Why they work: - Less capital than buying shares outright - More time for the thesis to play out - Theta decay is slow at 12+ months out - Frees up cash for CSPs and other positions What nobody tells you: - You can lose the entire premium - A 20% stock drop can mean 40-50% LEAP loss - They have an expiration date. Shares don't. - Low volume strikes have wide spreads. Be patient on fills. Comment “LEAP” and I’ll send you my LEAPS cheat sheet for free. Must be following to receive dm.

A cash-secured put on $PLTR right now ties up over $12,000. A put credit spread risks $825. Same bet. Here's how it works. You sell a put at a higher strike and buy a put at a lower strike. Same expiration. The difference is your max risk. The credit you collect is your max profit. Real example: $PLTR trading at $129.09. Sell the $110 put 5/15. Buy the $100 put 5/15. Collect $1.75 credit. Max profit: $175 (the credit) Max risk: $825 (spread width minus credit) Breakeven: $108.25 Stock stays above $110 by May 15? You keep the full $175. You're still selling premium. You're still using probability. You just need less money to do it. The tradeoff: your profit is capped and you can't roll as easily as a CSP. But if you're working with a smaller account, this gets you in the game.

The Wheel Strategy in 60 seconds. Step 1: Sell a cash-secured put on a stock you want to own. Collect premium. Wait. If it expires worthless - keep the premium. Go back to Step 1. If you get assigned - you now own 100 shares at a discount (strike minus premium collected). Move to Step 2. Step 2: Sell a covered call on your 100 shares. Collect more premium. Wait. If it expires worthless - keep the premium. Sell another covered call. Repeat Step 2. If your shares get called away - you sold at your strike price plus kept all the premium. Move back to Step 1. You're getting paid at every step. Paid to wait. Paid to hold. Paid to sell. The key: only wheel stocks you actually want to own. If you wouldn't hold it through a 20% drawdown, don't sell puts on it. I've been running this on 4-5 names for over a year. It's not exciting. It works.