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June 12, 2025 14 mins
I used to love Robinhood… until I realized how much money it was quietly costing me. This video walks you through the exact strategy I’m using now—what I’m calling the Ark Options Strategy—and why I’m done with platforms that don’t pay you what you’re owed. If you’re selling options and not collecting interest on your collateral, you’re getting robbed. This is how I fixed it and where I’m going all in.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I used to love Robinhood until it started costing me money.
Now I'm out, yo. What is going on, premium chasers?
I hope you are having a god blessed day today.
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(00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Guys, no fluff today. This is a very important video.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
So if I've ever provided any value to you on
this channel, anything whatsoever helped you out with, please hit
the like bund. I'm trying to reach as many of
our audience as possible with this video. All right, So
guys today it's a big one. This is a big, big,
big change for me and for our entire community. But
let's get into it. So, as you guys know, I

(00:46):
have really kind of, you know, created a strategy for
myself that I call the quad Option strategy. Now, I'm
not gonna call myself some sort of investment guru or
anything like that. I just like to call it the
quad Option strategy because essentially we're collecting four sources of
income when we are option sellers.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Right. The first one being the cash secured put. When
we're saying we're.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Willing to buy one hundred shares of a stock on
a certain day or on a certain expiration date, right,
we collect a premium up front for taking that risk. Right,
we're essentially naming our price on where we want to
own a stock and collect a premium from an options buyer.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
The second is the covered call.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Right now, the covered call is when we own one
hundred shares of a stock, we can then sell a
covered call saying, hey, we're willing to sell our hundred
shares for a price that we choose right on a
set date, and we collect a premium from options buyer
upfront as well. Then we are also collecting dividends on
our covered calls. Right, So when we're doing covered calls,
we're collecting that premium on a monthly basis and then

(01:45):
collecting a dividend as well from those companies. And then
lastly we have our appreciation sale as well. Eventually we
sell our shares with our covered calls. Eventually that does happen.
It might take a while right, but we're still collecting
that premium. We're still collecting that dividend. But finally we'll
have our appreciation sale where we then loop back and
do our cast secured put. But we have to take

(02:08):
it another step further. We had to because you guys
know it. You know how we have to do things here, right,
And this is a big change. But I'm very excited
to share this with you guys. And it's funny how
this all kind of changed as soon as my son
Noah was born. And I'm kind of naming this after
him because I can, because this is my strategy and

(02:29):
I can name things whatever I won't. So with that said,
I have a new strategy that I'm naming the ARC
Options strategy. And the reason I am doing this, as
you're already probably seeing on your screen, is we are
now able, in very specific brokerages, able to kind of
I look at it as a dividend side with the

(02:50):
cover called premium, were collecting dividend payments. We're collecting interest
on our cash secured puts.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
So let's walk through this. Suck through this.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
You know, when we do a cash scured put, right,
like some of you guys are heavy hitters right like
you're doing you know, fifty K, one hundred k cashcured puts. Right, cool,
you're cutting that premium up front. Well, did you know
you can also be collecting interest on that money that
is locked up for your expiration. There's only one brokerage
that really does it. I'm gonna share it with you
and side.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I gotta tease, guys, I gotta tease it, right, some
of you already know. Don't spoil. Don't you dare spoil
the surprise in the comments? Right now?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
We are able now right we open up our cast
secret put saying we're willing to buy one hundred shares
of a company like locks up our capital, even if
it's even if it's a thousand bucks, I don't care,
right because I'm building a solid foundation here, not just
for me, for my entire family. Right, So if I'm
missing out on some extra interest, even if it's you know,
four three, five percent, depending on what I'm getting, I'm
gonna take it.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Listen, But some of you guys are are you just.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
You're walking by the street, right and if you saw
a ten dollars lined off, of course you'd pick it up.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, you're doing the same damn thing.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I did the same damn thing oh with my portfolio,
right so, and I'm not no longer doing that, right,
no longer doing that. No one's getting free money. If
you want my money to do Cast secured puts, you're
gonna pay me interest on my money too, right, this
I got. I love this stuff so much, Guys, I
love this so much. And I love this name so much.
And you may not love the name, but it's very
significant to me, the whole story of Nozark. I've been

(04:20):
through tremendous stress in my life over the time I
saw with my son coming the like the heavens.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Have opened for me. H, thank you guy.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
But Cast Secured Put primums were collecting the premium as usual.
But our money's now locked up for thirty forty five
days weekly. It literally doesn't matter what it's locked up for.
We are still gonna be collecting Cast Secured put interest
from our brokerage.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Again.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's gonna range from you know, you know, three percent
to five percent whatever it is at that time.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
If we get assigned not a problem, we are then
going to shift immediately over to running covered calls. Right,
our covered calls. Now we're saying that we're willing. There's
like a fly, there's like a little fly in my face. Guys,
we're now shifting to do our covered call premium. So
we're saying we're willing to now sell our one hundred
shares right that we got assigned potentially on our cash
secured puts. We're willing to sell those shares right for

(05:11):
a price that we choose obviously above.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
What we were assigned for. Right. That's what we do here.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
We're collecting the premium and during that time, we're collecting
dividend on that company or ETF or whatever you're doing
it on. And eventually when you get assigned, eventually when
you have to sell your shares, we're going to have
our appreciation sale. That's the new ARC options strategy. Goodbye

(05:39):
quad option strategy. Okay, it was short lived, right, lived
for about three months here in our lives, Big rip
give drop us right, let's drop some rips to the
quad option strategy down below.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
It has served us all. It served me very well
over seven years.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Obviously, didn't start kind of calling it that on the
internet until a couple of months ago when I started
this YouTube channel.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
But now ARC option strategy.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
A lot of work here now, obviously on my part,
so you'll still see quad options playbook. You'll still see
all this I got, I got stuff I gotta do
still in my everyday life.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
But eventually you're gonna see everything moved.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Over and called the ARC option strategy because listen, no dollar,
no dollar gets left behind, all right, And in my opinion,
with this in the quad option strategy. Now with ARC,
no dollar is getting left beyond, at least from what
I'm seeing now. Listen, if there's another one, let me know.

(06:37):
And there may be in the future one hundred percent.
There may be in the future. But I felt like
when we were doing just quad option strategy, I was
limiting it, limiting it only to four streams of income.
Now with me being able to call this the ARC
option strategy, it opens me up to a least with
different strategies, layer on more things. But this is our
foundation that we are going through. Who am I going

(06:59):
on in now? Peace out, Robinhood, peace out, schwab. I'm
out all right, I'm out of I'm getting out of
all those and I'm now shifting fully to fidelity not spot.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know, they if fidel if you watch in this,
please sponsor me. I would do.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
I want to be sponsored. Can somebody sponsor me? Can
someone sponsor me?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Please?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Uh? So, I'm going all in on Fidelity and the
reason for that is what you're saying. I know it's Reddit,
but listen, Reddit is is uh at the end of
the day, I'm very I'm not gonna go into Reddit,
but whatever. Like, here's what Fidelity said here right. Basically,
there was a user that asked here about this, right,

(07:43):
and the Fidelity responded, the funds set aside in your
cast secred put reserve do continue to earn interest as
long as your options contract remains open. Right now, you
guyskin can read through all of this. YadA, YadA YadA.
It goes in through what you know. A cash secured
put is which we which we all understand. Okay, now

(08:06):
am I tardy to the party? Yeah, guys, I'm not perfect.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm just documenting my journey here on YouTube and I
want to surround myself with some really cool people and
spread this amazing message, uh of the ARC options strategy
to the world. I love talking about this stuff. I
love nerding out on this stuff. It is literally so
fun for me. But am I perfect what I consider
myself a guru in this space? Absolutely not, absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's just a.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Strategy that I like to do, and it seems like
you guys are enjoying enjoying the ride as well.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Right, So where do we go from here? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Sky's the Sky's the limit, Sky's the limit. But I'm
so excited about this, guys. Obviously there's a lot of
work here to move. I know I had listen. A
lot of the edgy stuff on the channel is still
going to be robin Hood based, right as far as
uh education goes, because a lot of you on it.
But you know, every sing video, I'm gonna bring this
up because you know, the unfortunate reality is this.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Robin Hood sucks. Robinhood sucks like it just does.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
I left robin Hood, I believe it was in twenty
twenty when the whole Game Stop fiasco happened, and I
remember trying to exit some of my positions at the
time because a bunch of you know, stupid basically stupid
stocks were blowing up, and I had a lot of
stupid stocks back then because I was stupid a.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Little back then. Right, and I was trying to get
out of them.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
I couldn't get out they they you know, and a
lot of people got screwed over. Let me know if
you got screwed over during that time as well. And
it's happened a bunch of times. And in my opinion,
that's not a brokerage I'm gonna associate myself with anymore.
It's gonna be my mission, uh to bait you be
honest those are you watching it? I'm gonna bait you
in with the with the with showing arc showing the

(09:50):
education and stuff. On robin I would say it's the
most widely used uh trading platform here on YouTube. But
but at the end of very single video, I'm gonna
tell you don't use robin Hood straight up, don't cause
you might have not got screwed yet. Listen, go do
me a favor right now, Go try and get support
on robin Hood.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
So to get a little bit more personal here, so
I've been, I went through and try it. So I
deactivated my Robinhood agaunt in like twenty twenty. I was like,
I'm out, I'm going schwab right, and Schwab I think
is still a fantastic platform, right. Their Thinker Swim platform
is fantastic, right, honestly too much for me. I used
to kind of nerd out on the Thinker Swim stuff,

(10:29):
and it's still great. I don't want to talk bad
about Charles Schwab, I do. I really really love Charles
Shab And if you're on Charles Swab, that's I get it.
And if you don't want to leave it, I totally
get it because it is a great platform. I am
fully listen. I was all in on shap for a
very long time myself. But the pain in the butt
that I went through getting out of Robin, all this stuff,

(10:52):
closing my account, I tried to reactivate it. Now ten weeks, guys,
ten weeks. It's been ten weeks. I just called them.
They are like, yeah, but you can't. There's no support there.
There's literally no support. It's and then what they're doing
is pandering to degeneracy, and I'm sorry, I don't support that.
I don't support gambling. I don't support uh degenerate behavior. Now,

(11:17):
when I say degenerate behavior, I'm not talking about like
you guys doing like leverage GTF stuff Like I'm not
talking about that.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
That's I joke about that being degenerate.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
But I talk about like all the other gambling things
that they're getting involved in, and its just against my
core set of beliefs. I don't think people should be
getting themselves involved with that because you know who gets
involved with that, People that don't have money, straight up,
people that don't have don't have money get involved in
those kind of schemes.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
And who wins, Robin Hood wins. I want to work.
I'm just I don't even know where I'm going with
this guy.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
So I apologize, but it just it just that's what
I believe, uh, And that's that's just the way it's
gonna be. So for me, it's gonna be a journey, right,
I've mean, moving things over to Fidelity is going to
be a pain in the butt, A lot of work
on my plate to do, and and especially here on
the on on this channel. The channel has grown away
faster than I ever imagined. We have an amazing community

(12:11):
of people here as well. All of us use different
kinds of brokerages and that's completely fine. They're I I
am not a financial advisor read the shirt, not financial advice,
But I believe with me, I'm gonna optimize the hell
out of my strategy. And that's why I talk about
the same damn thing every day. Some of you asking me, people,
why don't you talk about other things? Sometimes I'll you know,

(12:32):
have videos about on condors, credits, spreads and blah blah.
Because I do what I do best, and I stick
to what I like and what I will optimize. For you,
guys that are doing you're you're you're doing you're buying options,
you're selling options, you're doing all these complex strategies, you're
the ones that get burned long run because you actually
think that you're you're you're, you're, you're, you're You're too confident,

(12:54):
and you're better off just becoming an expert and just
diving deep into one strategy, like let's say, like iron
condors is your thing, You're better off honestly ignoring absolutely
everything else and just honing in on that. For me,
I was like, you know, I need something that fits
my lifestyle. Right, So when I learned about like selling
options years ago, like and I was just doing it,
like not even I wouldn't even call it part time.

(13:15):
I was doing it a few times a month, right,
just to make some money. But now it's like, I'm
all all in on this, so I'm able to really
plug any holes that I see and I have the
time to do it right. So like for me, this
is where we're at. This is why I talk about
this every day because I'm not gonna bs you guys
with stuff I'm not doing right.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
I'm just I'm just not right.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Like I very rarely do like any kind of like
iron condoors or credit spreads. I have many times in
the past, but just not something that interests me anymore.
I'd rather stick to this and dude, compounding on this
is out. I have a type of here let me
do for no one of you guys were commenting that,
I'm sure, all right, guys, I'm ending this video. If
you want that full template option sellers checklist that I

(13:56):
do every single Sunday, drop a comment down below. Also,
if you are somebody that wants a more handheld approach
on the ARC option strategy and joining an absolutely incredible
group of individuals all doing this, all talking about this
every single day, I want you to take a look
at the Option seller Schools. The link will be down below.
In the description, there's about a thirty minute training that talks

(14:17):
about this entire strategy in a lot more depth. Okay,
then if it sounds like a good fit, you're a
not toxic person. You're not somebody that doesn't have a
stable life like meaning you don't have money right like,
and you're trying to figure that whole thing out not
for you, and you gotta be cool, right If I
couldn't play around the golf with you for four hours,
this ain't a fit, right So take a look at

(14:38):
the first link in the description of today, So you
guys remember, sell options, collect premiums, repete LCL tomorrow
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