• To pursue mastery of the craft.
• To create long-term wealth.
• To live life on my own terms.
• To challenge me mentally and emotionally.
• To motivate others in the process, and be a strong advocate for trading as a career path.

• I am a swing trader that likes to focus on combining technical setups with options strategies.
• I focus on trading the strongest stocks in the market, aiming to trade nothing but my go-to setup: the squeeze.
• I like to build my positions inside the squeeze above the 21EMA, with the goal of collecting profit as the squeeze releases energy and fires.

• Monthly:
  • #1 goal = get better.
  • #2 goal = average of 10%+ return per month.
• Yearly:
  • #1 goal = get better.
  • #2 goal = 100%+ overall return.
• Long Term:
  • Grow my account to $1,000,000 and begin wiring 2.5% of balance weekly.

• I aim to focus on nothing but the setups that have proven to serve me well (the squeeze) and to ignore all else.
• I only want to trade setups that fit my personal criteria.
• I want to trade setups that can not only be highly profitable, but also allow me to have peace-of-mind away from the charts, so I’m not at risk of being bothered by the day-to-day “noise”.

Mid/large cap US equities in strong uptrends

• Weekly
• 3 Day
• Daily
• 4-hour timeframes

• Weekly, 3 day, daily, and 4 hour squeezes on bullish stocks.
• The EMA’s must be stacked positively.
• The stock must be trading just above it’s 21 EMA.
• The histogram should show positive momentum, or yellow bars at the very least.

• The stock must be in an uptrend on the weekly and daily timeframes.
• The stock should be in a tight-squeeze, trading just above it’s 21 EMA.
• The EMA’s have to be stacked positively.
• If the histogram has yellow or light blue bars, I begin to build position.
• Once my criteria is met, I like to sell put credit spreads, going as far OTM with the short-strike as possible while still retaining at least a 3:1 risk-reward ratio.
• When I find a setup that fits this criteria, in my experience (and through what I’ve been taught) this is an optimal setup.
• Trading this setup (where the odds are stacked in my favor of catching a move to the upside) with an OTM put credit spread puts the odds in my favor even more.

I’m always comfortable taking my max loss, and never risk more than I can afford should a position go to zero.

While I’m comfortable with the max loss on my spreads, this rarely happens when the trades are managed appropriately.

I set limit orders to buy back my credit spreads at 80% of the max potential profit.

I hold my trades until “something has changed” in the structure of the setup I’m trading. Typically, this starts with a close BELOW the 21 EMA of the timeframe I’m trading (or above for bearish trades).

I wake up every day at 5:00am and head straight to the gym for a workout. I find that this floods me with positive-endorphins and leaves me energized and ready to start my day.

Once at my desk, I check the futures markets to get a gauge of where things are set to open. If there’s an extreme move, I adjust working-orders accordingly and begin to write-out my game plan for managing open positions.

Once at my desk, I check the futures markets to get a gauge of where things are set to open. If there’s an extreme move, I adjust working-orders accordingly and begin to write-out my game plan for managing open positions.

Run a scan for weekly, 3D, and daily squeezes in all optionable stocks, sorting by market-cap with the biggest names at the top of the list.

• I take notes on any emotions I felt throughout the session, positive or negative, and aim to identify what caused those emotions.
• I make sure all working-orders are set properly for the following session.
• Take notes on what John Carter & Henry Gambell are trading/their current thoughts on the market.

• Squeeze pro indicator
• 21 period EMA (exponential moving average)
• Bollinger bands
• Simpler Trading Scanner

• I track all of my open and closed positions in a spreadsheet I’ve built that quickly calculates P&L.
• I review all of my trades, thoughts, and emotions in a hand-written journal.

I watch recordings of John Carter and Henry Gambell’s options room sessions, and take notes on any important observations I make and the stocks they’re trading. I resonate with both of their approaches, so learning from the best in the game is a huge part of my continued growth.

• “As within, so without”.
• “Life is a constant quest to be the best version of one’s self”.
• “Move the ball forward”.

• Never go against-the-grain of the overall trend.
• Never fight the squeeze (trying to short a stock firing long).
• The results of a single trade are meaningless. It’s all about the probabilities over the long run.
• I don’t need to get paid today. Patience pays, and it pays better than forcing trades that are less than ideal.
• It’s always best to wait for “your pitch”.