More investing insights from a Nuclear engineer-turned-trader

Below is part two of my interview with Troy Broussard about his clever way of combining his systems & automation knowledge as a Nuclear Engineer, enterprise-class software developer, & API-level marketing automation specialist to Options trading. And yes before you ask: There is an offer if you’re so inclined, to get his coaching on this. And if you do, and if you use my affiliate link by the deadline, and follow the instructions, you’ll get a ridiculously valuable bonus. But forget about that for now. First, here’s part two of our interview: === BEN SETTLE: Okay. So, before I ask you about options specifically, I want to pull back just a second and what is your overall approach to investing that makes just the way you do it unique, just to investing as a whole? Because from what I can tell, and maybe I'm wrong. Your approach is very unique and it's the same thing you do with crypto and the same thing you do with options fundamentally. Is that true or am I off on that? TROY BROUSSARD: Yeah, it's absolutely true and my business partner in this, John Sanpietro, he has done much more traditional investing than I have in the past. I did it in the '90s and then early 2000s, and I took a hiatus from it when I blew up my retirement account, but he's been doing stocks and investing traditionally for longer than I have in that sense, but he does it in the traditional mindset of an investor and I'm not an investor. I'm a trader. I really want to make that distinction very clear because this is what's fundamentally different about our approach to using options. We're not using options to grow an investment portfolio. We're keeping our assets in cash and we're using options to generate income from cash. So, in reality, what we're doing is stealing liquidity out of the stock market without really being an investor in the stocks themselves. Our program pays you immediately. The moment you hit send to place your order, you are credited in cash in your account and could withdraw it to your bank right then and right there. That is how the process works. We are generating weekly income through the stock market, but we're not doing it by buying and selling stock. Instead we are “using the stock market” through selling options to generate cashflow, and it's just a really fundamental and core differentiation. Now, as I;ve said, there are many, many strategies of how to make money with options, and most of them are quite aggressive, complex and very risky. We use the safest strategy endorsed by anybody and everyone. I mean, there's been case studies by Goldman Sachs that have shown that the types of options we sell are the best approach to investing. Selling Puts is not magical, but the process that we do it with is unique and it is considered to be the safest strategy for options that exist, so much so that it's even allowed to be done inside of a retirement account. You can use it in a IRA or a Roth IRA depending on your broker, but the strategy is actually even approved at that level because it is considered to be the safest approach towards trading options. So, we took this very, very complex platform or idea of options trading that quite literally has this stigma to it of being an elitist environment and I'll come back to that more in some of the other conversation, I'm sure, when we talk about our pricing and our approach to that and stuff, but it's really, options are like the country club of trading and investing. They are purposely put up on this plateau of complexity and sophistication and high risk and all of these things and we've completely flipped that narrative to where we've taken just one aspect of it and made what was already the safest, securest, easiest way to trade options, and then made it even easier by putting a framework, our own methodology over the top of it that could reduce it down to just something that anybody that's never, ever even heard the word of a stock option before can learn and be making money and profitable in just a matter of a few weeks. BEN SETTLE: Well, okay, so let's dial just a little bit back here on options. Is options something that like the regular guy who doesn't like me, for example, the caveman, why is this good for guys like these? You've been telling me this for a very long time that, "This is ideal for a guy like you, Ben. It's ideal for your brother," you said. It's ideal for certain types of people just like me, presumably like a lot of people on my list. Why is this such a good match for people like us? And by the way, before you answer that, let me just be very candid that I currently do not use your system, but I do benefit from it because you use your own system to invest like with Learnistic all that, and we've got some other stuff going on, but I want to be very candid about that for people. I have not yet used it, but I do benefit from it and like I said, in Troy, I trust. Now that said, why are guys like me? Why cavemen like me? Why normal direct marketers, specifically copywriters, like our mentality? Why is that so good for options? Because Gary Halbert was a big options guy. TROY BROUSSARD: Yeah, options, if you really want to translate it into one word of what they provide is leverage, and it's a very accurate translation because it's both a technically correct in terms of financial leverage, but I actually mean it in the sense of leverage of your time. I think that the average person should not become a day trader. The reason I've suggested options trading to you personally many times is that I know you don't have the desire nor the inclination to sit in front of a computer all day doing trading or be glued to the screen during certain hours of the trading market. What options trading gives you is the freedom to do it in a way that only takes a minimal amount of time because you're not actually trading the stock and watching the stock going up and down and going crazy like that on the market and checking it all the time. You're selling a weekly option and it's something that has a weekly expiration. So, the amount of time and effort and management associated with this is minimal in comparison to trading a stock. That's really what it comes down to. My son is in his mid-20s and he just rented an apartment and he was saying, "Well, I'm not really interested in trading. It's not really my forte. It's not something I really have a desire to or passion to learn about," and I said, "Well, you just moved into a new apartment, right?" He's like, "Yeah." I said, “How much do you enjoy taking out the trash?" He's like, “I hate it. I gotta gather it all up, take it down the hall, and then I gotta separate it all out into recyclables and everything else and drop it down the trash chutes, all this stuff, " I said, "Okay, cool, but you can't enjoy the benefit of the apartment unless you take out the trash." He's like, "Yeah, absolutely." I said, "So, you take out the trash, because it's the thing you do that allows you to get the enjoyment from what you want to do, which is chill out and watch a game on the sofa,” and then it hit him a little bit because what I was saying is that what I love about options is the freedom of making 1% a week on your investments with just one to two hours a week of your time. So, because it allows for that leverage of time and that leverage of effort, you don't need to go anywhere near the level of depth that I've gone with trading to be able to take advantage of everything that I've created and that's the beauty of it. It's leveraged time. I think all of us want to hold on to what we've made and watch it grow a little bit, right? I mean, that's the reason we have retirement accounts. That's the reason that we put our money in the bank is to have some reserves, but with options, you get a much better growth and return on a very small investment of your time and effort. So, that's it in a nutshell for me. BEN SETTLE: Okay. Let's talk about your approach to options. How did you figure out how you do it specifically? TROY BROUSSARD: So, I tried everything with options. I have done every crazy strategy you can imagine. Day trading SPY and SPX, doing six to $7,000 a day on day trades. I've made over $6,000 on a single trade and I've also lost over $7,000 in a day doing some of those crazy option strategies. So, like everything I do, I've done it with massive iteration. I counted up to over $25,000 and stopped counting because I didn't really want to count any further with how much money just in courses and trainings and mentors and coaching that I spent learning options. One program alone was 7,500. Another was four grand. A bunch of them at 2000, et cetera, and I just went deeper and deeper into it because I excited by the leverage aspect of it, but I was really having a hard time finding an approach that was simple AND low risk. Those were the two criteria that Options trading was really missing. One of the programs that I invested in unfortunately the guy teaching it is like many of the options gurus. He was teaching a lot of stuff and I really only wanted a small percentage of what he was teaching, but I am a good learner and I learned to just ignore the 95% of what he was talking about and just focus on that 5% that was useful to me. I got into his community and I started really working at it refining that 5% of his approach that I liked further. So, what I did over time from my own experience was just refined the approach by throwing out all of the high risk stuff, throwing out anything that required me to be in front of the computer all the time and came down to the lowest risk strategy of all that’s out there with Options called The Wheel Strategy. And I started looking into that and that's what this guy was teaching as well, but it had its own flaws in terms of just the approach. Part of it philosophically I didn't agree with in terms of taking ownership of stock and so what I ended up doing was taking what is commonly known and referred to as The Wheel Strategy, which is the most widely practiced and known and highly endorsed options strategy and I simplified it further. I started from that solid base, but was able to make it radically more simple and easier to follow (and profitable too). Our approach is about simplification of things that can be quite complex. BEN SETTLE: Okay, here's a question that has occurred to me, and I know I'm not the only person wondering this, right? Especially people who aren't that dialed into these things, everybody knows... Okay, even the media knows. Everybody knows the economy is about the tank. How does this work better during a bad economy? Does it work the same? Is there more risk during a bad economy? What's your thoughts on a crappy, shitty economy? How is options? Is that good? Is it bad? What's your thoughts? === So ends part two. I’ll be sending out part three tomorrow. If you want more info on Troy’s Options coaching and get an extremely valuable bonus (see the PS) with it should you decide to partake of it via my affiliate link below, then sign up by Friday 10/13 at midnight EDT: [https∶//www.EmailPlayers.com/options]( Or, if you want to hold Troy’s feet to the fire: Today at 4:00 EDT/ 3:00 CDT / 2:00 MDT / 1:00 PDT he’s doing a live Q&A. You can grill him, challenge him, try to stump him - outright badger him about it, even. i.e., ask all your questions and make him prove he’s the real deal and can help. (I certainly did before letting him trade Options with Learnistic cash) If you want to be on that call before buying go here: [https∶//www.EmailPlayers.com/options/live]( Ben Settle P.S. The bonus I am offering to those who buy Troy’s coaching by the deadline via my righteous affiliate link? Your pick of any ONE of the books below that I sell. 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