I started this paper trading account less than a year ago with one million fake dollars, bought several of my highest conviction tickers and a few wild cards to watch. Since I’m short on time, I didn’t mess with it much, only occasionally adding to positions when I noticed buying power available. Late last year I added some income funds to pay off margin interest and add fresh capital. Today I added some LEAPS calls on high conviction and strengthened the income generating power. A...

that have paid for themselves several times over. Once they were deep ITM, I began writing against them - not by actively monitoring for pops in price and volatility, but by setting limit sell orders at a high price (usually about 5x current,) with expiries the week of an expected catalyst or high volatility event. I staggered the trades against the contracts such that a certain percentage were unlikely to be called away. Doing this has allowed me to recoup my initial capital/ca...

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