Every session ends the same way: thirty-five minutes where the S&P picks a direction or pins. I trade that window with defined-risk SPX structures whose worst case is a number I choose before entry, and I post every fill, win or lose.
Every structure is defined-risk and same-day expiry. Two numbers matter on each one: the planned exit, where the rules get out, and the true max, what a gap straight through the stops can cost. Figures below are per one contract.
When the market settles inside its calm-day bands, the bot sells premium about 1% above and below. Price stays in the range, the credit is kept.
When momentum flips with a trend that 4 of 6 timeframes agree on, a lopsided fly aims where price is drifting into the close. A move through the target cannot hurt it. Only a full reversal can.
Same afternoon trend logic in a symmetric fly, taken when the debit is small. Best risk to reward of the four, and the one that needs the cleanest pin.
On trendless afternoons, when the gauge reads flat and price is bouncing in a real box, it bets on a finish near the middle. Never taken against a strong trend.
A naked short option has an open-ended worst case. I never take one. Every play pairs a short leg with a long leg further out, so the loss caps itself at a fixed number that is arithmetic, not hope.
| Account equity | Broken-wing | Standard fly | Condor | Worst normal day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,000 XSP recommended | 1 | 1 | 1 narrow | −$25 |
| $10,000 SPX, fixed 1-lot | 1 | 1 | 1 | −$250 |
| $25,000 ladder step 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 wide | −$500 |
| $50,000 ladder step 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 wider | −$1,000 |
| Pause switch any equity | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 |
The signal feed is educational: you see what I take and decide for yourself. The copier tier is software you run, on your machine, in your brokerage account, at settings you choose.
Pick which of the four strategies to follow, choose fixed contracts or a percent of account, set a hard max-contract cap. SPX or XSP.
Link your own brokerage account. Nothing runs until you switch it on, and the pause button stops new entries instantly while exits keep protecting open trades.
Entries fire only when a setup qualifies. Profit floors, trailing locks, stops and time exits run automatically, and every fill lands in your journal.
Here is every trading day from January 2016 to June 2026, replayed on the real SPXW 0DTE quote tape with real brokerage fees, running the same entry and exit rules the bot runs live. I start it with $1,000, add $400 a month, and it sizes every trade off the running balance exactly the way the live bot does. It is a backtest, not a promise. History is history. But it is honest history, real quotes, real fees, losses and all.
Eight of eleven years finished green. The three red ones are all up front, 2016 through 2018, back when the account was small and still learning to walk. That is also where the worst drawdown lives. Down 32% in 2018, from about $13,700 in July to $9,400 in November, then back to new highs by the following spring. It stung, and it took nine months to heal. Here is the part I want you to sit with. The scary drawdowns all happen early, on a small pile. Once the account grew past forty grand, no year pulled back more than single digits. The risk shrinks as it compounds. But that first stretch is real, and I would rather you know it now than learn it in month seven.
Entry tickets, exit cards and the live payoff graphic land in the feed while the trade is on. Red days included, nothing deleted after the fact.
The cards come off real orders in a live paper account, stamped into the feed the second they fill. Nothing gets drawn from a spreadsheet after the close. The money is not real yet, and it stays that way until the paper track has earned the right to be funded.
About a third of days nothing qualifies, so nothing fires, and that gets posted as well. Waiting is the hardest part of the job and it is most of the edge.
Seven emails, one idea each, written for someone who has never traded an option. By the last one you can read every card I post and check my work yourself.
Calls and puts explained with a grocery store rain check, and the one sentence that caps a buyer's risk.
Floor, peak, crossings. Five seconds to read any trade, including every one I post.
The clock was never the problem. Sizing and undefined risk were, and both are choices.
How a spread turns a worst case into a number you purchase in an exact quantity.
Why a three-strike tent can risk $100 to make $400, and why it only gets placed at 3:25.
Getting paid when nothing happens, and the management rules that keep it honest.
The whole playbook on one clock, and how to watch it run live if you want to.
Sunday night: the dates that can move the market, how I am playing them, and the swing scanner's top five.
The first email lands in your inbox today. No card, no upsell for a week, and the last lesson is the only one that mentions membership at all.
The free tier is not a trial. It stays free, and plenty of members never leave it.
That is exactly who I wrote the free course for. Options 101 assumes zero background and gets you to fluency in seven short emails. Stay on the free course and the Sunday note as long as you like. Upgrade only if watching the trades run live starts to feel useful.
Same-day options can lose 100% of what you paid, quickly. That is exactly why the bot only trades defined-risk structures: the maximum loss is a fixed number chosen before entry, usually $50 to $270 per contract, enforced by automatic stops and a hard flat-by-the-bell rule. The risk is real. It is never open-ended.
No. The signal feed is educational: you see my entries and exits and decide what to do in your own account. The Autopilot tier is software you run yourself, with your own broker and your own settings, and it launches only after the appropriate licensing is complete.
To learn, nothing. To trade one contract of the playbook comfortably, most members start somewhere around $3,000 to $10,000, and XSP runs the same trades at one tenth the size for smaller accounts. Under $25,000 in a margin account, US pattern day trading rules limit you to three day trades per five business days. A cash account avoids that. The course covers all of it.
No promises, and be suspicious of anyone in this business who makes them. What you get is the full tape: every win and every loss posted as it happens, so you can judge me on evidence instead of marketing. A backtest is history. Last month is one month. Neither guarantees the next one.
Nothing fires, and I post that too. Roughly a third of sessions produce no qualifying trade. That is the system working. Most edges in this market die from over-trading, and this one is built to wait.
Lesson one takes four minutes and costs nothing. By lesson seven you can audit every trade I post.