Print them. Use them before every trade.
One row per leg. The sheet does the rest.
A wheel strategy tracker for the whole cycle: log the cash-secured put, the assignment, every covered call, and the day the shares leave. The spreadsheet computes net premium, your true cost basis after every dollar collected, capital at risk, and the annualized return on each completed cycle.
A dashboard keeps score across cycles, wins and losses both. Works in Excel and Google Sheets, and ships with one fully worked example cycle so the math is never a mystery.
Run the numbers before the trade.
Seven calculators that do the arithmetic the book teaches, right in your browser. Type in the strike and the premium and watch what the position actually pays: the return if the shares stay, the return if they are called away, the price you would really pay on assignment, and what any of it looks like annualized.
Free, no email required. Educational only, never personalized advice.
Learn the system with me.
The book lays out the whole plan. Some people want a guide while they build the machine for the first time.
I have taught for as long as I have invested. I am patient, I like questions, and you can ask the same one twenty times without me losing patience. Complex things become simple when they are broken down properly, and I adapt to how you learn best. I homeschooled my son until second grade, and I teach adults and young people with the same care.
Programs
Money Skills for Kids, ages 10 to 13. Earning, saving, budgeting, banking, compound growth, and how to recognize a scam.
Investing Foundations for Teens, ages 13 to 17. Stocks, bonds, ETFs, dividends, diversification, and paper portfolios.
Dividend Investing for Adults. Evaluating companies, judging dividend safety, reinvestment, and building a hypothetical income portfolio.
Options Income Fundamentals for Adults. Covered calls and cash-secured puts, including the risks and the circumstances where they fail.
Also available on request: how to choose a broker, what the technical tools are and why most of their edges eroded, futures, day trading and swing trading, prop firms, and careers in the industry. Take one topic, or the whole system, beginning to end.
How lessons run
Every session is built around your goals. Theory first if you are starting out, always with practical examples, and as much back and forth as you want. If you prefer to listen while I teach, that works too. Nothing gets rushed and nothing gets wasted.
Pricing
Free 15-minute call to see if it is a fit.
First session: $50, introductory launch rate.
Ongoing sessions and packages: ask on the call.
All mentoring is education, not advice. We work through the method and the checklists using general examples. I do not review personal portfolios, and I never tell anyone what to buy or sell. Educational only, never personalized advice.
Steady income. Minutes a week.
A simple, math-backed plan for building wealth without the stress.
Free Money Principles shows you how to own quality stocks that pay dividends, collect covered call income on shares you already hold, and get paid to wait with cash-secured puts. No predictions. No jargon. Nothing to watch all day. Add discipline, and the machine compounds toward your goals sooner than you thought possible.
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James Brandt
James Brandt has spent about 35 years in finance, long enough to watch every fashionable way to lose money get renamed and sold again. He writes about the other side of the table: the investor who owns quality assets, collects dividends, and sells option premium to the impatient.
He wrote Free Money Principles so the system could be taught honestly, bad nights included, and he writes The House Edge, a weekly letter on income investing.
The house doesn't gamble. It collects.
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The letter that runs the system in public.
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- The Read: is this a selling week or a waiting week, and why
- One honest lesson a week, taught plainly
- The complete toolkit, delivered in your welcome letter
The Full Issue
- The Screen: the quality watchlist run for you: prices, premiums, estimate revisions, and a verdict on every name
- One fat pitch and one trap each week, with the full reasoning shown
- The Operator’s Journal: what I’m actually doing in my own account, disclosed, including the weeks I do nothing
- The Monthly Scorecard: my numbers, gross and honest, mediocre months included
The House Edge is an impersonal educational publication. Nothing in it is personalized investment advice or a recommendation tailored to you. Positions held are disclosed in every issue.
“The concepts the industry dresses up are simple. Anyone can understand them, and I explain them the way they were always meant to be explained: nothing held back to sell you later, no using you the way this industry does, and always has. It began as a letter to my son. I hope it reads like one to you.”
James Brandt
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