Table of Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction: Making of a Married Put superhero:
MY Story and how I had to go broke before I was ready to learn
- Shocking my friend at the coffee shop with a 'sure thing'
- How to use The Blueprint: Exercises, Quizzes, Illustrations, Reflection Sections
- The silliest thing I ever did that made me money
- Goals, affirmations, and your personal trading plan
- Pareto's Principle: Why 20% of any group of players end up with 80% of the advantages
- Who really makes money in the markets
- How to join them
- Feedback
- Join traders over ten years, thirty countries, and help us continue improving The Blueprint
Chapter Two:
Options Basics: Calls and Puts
- Tools for leverage
- The value of time
- "Moneyness" and how it affects your trade
- How to get into trouble
- How NOT to
- Options hedging stock
- Options hedging other options
- Debits, credits, calendars and collars
- BULLETPROOFING: Arranging a position so that it can no longer lose but can continue to gain
- Three basic principles: FIST, ATM Bell Curve, REDLine
- The RadioActive Profit Machine
- Exit strategies
Chapter Three:
The Trade Simulator Tool: Evaluate your present money management plan
- How you can be wrong more often than right and still make money
- Being right vs. trading right
Chapter Four:
RPM (Married Put) Setup: Length of time for play
- Why RT works over the long haul
Chapter Five:
Introduction to the C.E.G.A. Model for decision-making
Income Method #1: Selling a Covered Call to create a Collar
- What strike price to sell
- What month to sell
- How much premium to expect
- Other guidelines
- A DEADLY "Newbie" mistake
- Ways to manage IM#1
- The catastrophe Report
Chapter Six:
Income Method #2: C.E.G.A. Model
- What Income Method#2 is
- How not to do an Income Method #2 trade
- When to consider other adjustments instead
- Using Income Method #2 to adjust other Income Methods (preview), Catastrophe Report
Chapter Seven:
Income Method #3: C.E.G.A. Model
- The 'Bulletproof Vest'
- How I discovered Income Method #3 Manipulating the put for income without any short calls limiting growth
- Spike in time value, even as all the puts are coming down
- When NOT to do Income Method #3
- Catastrophe Report
Chapter Eight:
Income Method #4: C.E.G.A. Model
- The 'ATM Machine'
- Another risk-less spread trade
- Another application of the ATM Bell Curve
- Catastrophe Report
- Bonus! Using margin to "two-step" your money
- Hold a bullish stock position without any cash in it
Chapter Nine:
Income Method #5: C.E.G.A. Model
- Lecture at MIT
- The 'Money Net
- Riskless call spread done properly
- 'Double-dipping' a good stock's rise
- Catastrophe Report
- Management options
Chapter Ten:
Income Method #6: C.E.G.A. Model
- 'Gimme My Money NOW"
- Riskless Spread Trade
- Leaving the unlimited upside potential of Married Put in place
- Managing with Income Method #2
- Advanced management techniques
- Don't Time Trades, Trade TIME
- Catastrophe Report and further management ideas
Chapter Eleven:
Income Methods #7 and #8: C.E.G.A. Models
- The Bulletproof Time Spread
- The RadioActive Condor
- Trading RadioActively in a sideways market
- Catastrophe Reports
Chapter Twelve:
Income Method #9: C.E.G.A. Model
- "RPM Reboot" RadioActive Trading in a declining market
- How Ernie MADE money on a declining stock
Chapter Thirteen:
Income Method #10 (Dividends)
Income Method #11 (Broken Wing Butterfly)
- Using Dividend-Yielding stocks for income
- Beware the "ex" date
- How a Georgia anesthesiologist bulletproofs his Dividend yielding stocks
- Search parameters for Dividend yielding stocks
- Always open to new possibilities
- Elements of Income Method #11
- When to use Income Method #11
- Case Studies of IM #11
- Management techniques
Chapter Fourteen:
Bulletproofing: The Grail of RT
- Lowering cost basis of the stock and put to below the strike price OF the put
- Can win more, but can't lose anything
- Infinite leverage
- Synthetic positions
Chapter Fifteen:
- Combining Income Methods
- Income Methods that go together
- Income Methods that should NOT be combined
- Using one Income Method to 'manage' another one
- SWN example
- PCLN example
Chapter Sixteen:
- Exiting the RadioActive Profit Machine: Ain't over til the fat lady sings
- Time-frame, Stops, Target Gain
- Do you swing?
- What's your position
- Your C.E.G.A. Model applied to exiting
Chapter Seventeen:
- The RadioActive Trading Support System: [email protected]
- Fusion
- PowerOptions
- Seminars
- Local groups
Chapter Eighteen:
- Life of an RPM (HPQ Example)Conclusions about RT from a veteran trader
- Actual Examples of Income Method Application
- Bulletproofing a trade
- Result - A 12% profit in a declining market
Chapter Nineteen:
- How I find stocks to trade RadioActively
- Stock Insurance Tool on Fusion or PowerOptions
- Search parameters
- Married Put search
- Search by Symbol
- Collar Search
- Position Analysis tool
- Trade Simulator Tool
- Before/After tool
- Back-testing, Historical Analysis
Appendices 1-8
- Questions and Answers
- Chart Reading
- Income Method Decision Table
- Bulletproofing Existing Positions
- Trade Documentation
- Reference: RT Principles in a Nutshell
- General Reflections about the RadioActive Trading Journey
- Other Products of the Power Financial Group
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