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How Time Decay Affects Options—and Why Theta Matters
Learn how theta in options measures time decay, why it accelerates near expiration, and how traders can account for time in a trade.

Gautam Godse
2 days ago4 min read


Option Delta Explained: How It Helps You Understand Price Movement
Confused by option Delta? Learn how Delta affects option prices and use it to better understand your trade's sensitivity to stock movement.

Gautam Godse
Aug 194 min read


Options Assignment Explained: What Happens If You Get Assigned Shares?
Confused about options assignment? Learn what happens when you're assigned shares, why it occurs, and how understanding options assignment can improve your investing confidence.

Gautam Godse
Aug 53 min read


Building an Options Watchlist: How to Find Stocks You'd Actually Want to Own
Learn how to build an options watchlist with quality companies you would be happy to own, helping you make more confident and consistent investing decisions.

Gautam Godse
Jul 292 min read


Wheel Strategy: How Investors Generate Income With Options
Learn how the wheel strategy can help investors generate options income by combining cash-secured puts and covered calls into a repeatable process.

Gautam Godse
Jul 83 min read


Why Consistency Beats Home Runs in Options Trading
Learn why consistent options trading income often beats chasing big wins. Discover risk management principles that help traders build long-term results.

Gautam Godse
Jun 154 min read


Trade Breakdown: Selling a Put on Apple Step-by-Step
A beginner-friendly breakdown of how selling a put on Apple works, possible outcomes, risks, and why many investors use this strategy.

Gautam Godse
May 181 min read


How Cash-Secured Puts Help You Get Paid to Wait
Learn how cash-secured puts work, how investors use them to collect premium, and why this strategy can help you buy stocks at better prices.

Gautam Godse
May 52 min read


Why Most People Lose Money Trading (And How to Avoid It)
Most traders lose money for the same few reasons. Learn how disciplined investors approach the market differently and how to avoid common mistakes.

Gautam Godse
Apr 272 min read


Why Most People Are Investing the Wrong Way
And why “buy & hold” might not be enough anymore Watch this first: For most people, investing starts with a simple idea: Buy strong companies. Hold them long-term. Let time do the work. It’s clean. It’s easy to understand. And to be fair — it works to a degree. But there’s a limitation built into that strategy that most people don’t fully recognize until hey’ve experienced it firsthand. You don’t control when you get paid. You’re dependent on the market: If it goes up → you w

Gautam Godse
Mar 304 min read


Introducing Wheelie - the only trade tracker you will use
If you’ve ever tried to track your options trades using your brokerage app, you already know the problem. You can see trades. You can see P&L. But you can’t really understand what’s going on. And more importantly, you can’t answer the one question that actually matters: “Am I consistently making money on my strategy?” That’s exactly why I built Wheelie . A Completely New Kind of Options Tracker Wheelie isn’t just another trade log or spreadsheet replacement. It’s built from

Gautam Godse
Mar 283 min read


When Covered Calls Roll Too Far
One of the most common mistakes I see from new options traders—especially those learning the covered call strategy—is overreacting when...

Gautam Godse
Jun 25, 20252 min read


Margin Mastery: Trade Smarter with Tier 3
If you’ve been selling puts with a cash-secured strategy, congrats—you’re already playing it safer (and smarter) than most gamblers in...

Gautam Godse
Jun 3, 20252 min read


30 Minutes to Financial Freedom
In 2001, I made one of the best financial decisions of my life: I bought Apple (AAPL) stock for just $13 a share. At the time, MacOSX had...

Gautam Godse
Mar 12, 20253 min read


Selling CSPs and some tax planning
Happy Holidays, traders! Get ready for the last couple of weeks of the year. Gautam here with this week’s tips to close out the year...

Gautam Godse
Dec 19, 20243 min read


Solid stocks for a solid wheel...
Let’s start off with two key reminders on using the wheel strategy effectively and the flexibility of selling options to boost your...

Gautam Godse
Nov 14, 20243 min read


Selling options is a business, not a job
Let’s dive into this week’s tips on position sizing, finding the Delta sweet spot, & understanding the difference between day trading stocks

Gautam Godse
Nov 7, 20243 min read


Show Me The Money
Welcome back, option traders! Today's topic is something fundamental that option traders need to understand. And because of the similar...

Gautam Godse
Oct 25, 20242 min read


Wheeling, Theta, and Keeping Your Shares Safe
This week we’re covering the art of managing a wheel strategy , the sneaky nature of Theta , and the importance of keeping your long-term...

Gautam Godse
Oct 10, 20243 min read


The Many faces of Covered Calls
This week, we dive into one of the most popular strategies in options trading—Covered Calls. But this isn't a one-size-fits-all strategy.

Gautam Godse
Oct 3, 20243 min read
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