How to Sell Put Options and Earn Weekly or Monthly Income

Sell put means you are bullish on a stock and you earn the option premium or buy 100 shares at the strike price. The win rate for "sell put"is very high and you can often earn the happy premium in the most cases. When the market crashes and it can cause huge losses. But sell put during a market crash also means higher premium. Choosing a safe srike price is important. --------------- How to earn the premium from sell put during a market crash? What to focus when you sell put? Let's learn and discover "sell put" opportunities in this topic!

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04-30

It's Time to Check Capex Again

$INTC$ An absolutely absurd rally. I thought recommending sell puts yesterday was aggressive — turns out it was still too conservative. Some large call buys have appeared, like $INTC 20260821 110.0 CALL$  and $INTC 20260618 130.0 CALL$ . That said, judging by the tape, some of those may have been closed by the end of the day. Put strikes are roughly where expected — around 70. Selling puts at that level is fine, or just wait for a pullback. For holders: not every potential pullback requires exiting a position. Some may try to sell high and buy back lower — but this year, that's a great way to get left behind. $NVDA$ Same view as yesterday: range-bound
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It's Time to Check Capex Again
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04-29

Unexpected Earnings Disclosure: OpenAI Roils the Chip Sector

Tonight's price action says it all. The sell-off stems from a rumor about OpenAI's performance — specifically, that the company missed its internal revenue target for the first quarter. That's awkward. Competitors Google and Anthropic are both seeing growth. Only OpenAI is stagnating. If Google and Anthropic fail to deliver results this year, the US market would be looking at a crash far worse than tonight's move. All things considered, tonight's drop isn't that severe. This OpenAI revenue news is essentially a mini-earnings report. Barring surprises, we're likely to see this same dynamic repeat next quarter. On the flip side, we could also see a similar repeat of the Anthropic growth narrative. The biggest issue from OpenAI's miss: the company pre-booked massive data center capacity. If r
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Unexpected Earnings Disclosure: OpenAI Roils the Chip Sector
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04-28

To Chase or Not to Chase

$NVDA$ For the first time in nine months, NVDA looks ready to break into a new range. We're now in the phase of testing the upper bound — expectations point to 225–235. Given NVDA's massive market cap, a 10–20% surge isn't exactly typical. That makes selling puts a more comfortable way to chase the move. The strike depends on your risk tolerance. $AMD$ AMD should hit 400 this year. Pullbacks are good entry points. Right now, the bears are targeting the 5-day moving average at 310 and the gap at 300. If this were last year's market, I'd say AMD would either rally into earnings or hold 330 in a tight range, then pull back post-print — a perfect entry opportunity. But after Intel's earnings, those old rules may not apply. That said, Friday's jump likely priced in much of the upside. So the po
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To Chase or Not to Chase
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04-23

The Market Is Becoming a Meme-Fest

$INTC$ Selling premium in this market is tricky — you never know which stock will catch a hot narrative and get flooded with retail flow. Looking at recent chip earnings, even good expectations aren't enough if the numbers fall short. Intel's earnings should be solid, with full-year guidance likely raised. But some of the run-up is already priced in. Selling puts is still the safer approach — consider the 60 strike $INTC 20260424 60.0 PUT$ . There were quite a few 50-strike puts positioned for a pullback. But given the current CPU hype, 50 will attract strong dip-buying. Most put flow seems to have abandoned the 50 target, shifting focus to the 55–60 range. Earnings could still produce a sell-off. That said, I wouldn't rec
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04-21

Preparing for Post-Earnings Pullbacks

$NVDA$ You have to admit — 200 is a tough ceiling. This week's institutional spread: sell the 202.5 call $NVDA 20260424 202.5 CALL$ , buy the 207.5 call $NVDA 20260424 207.5 CALL$ . Expecting a broader chip pullback after Intel earnings — that 182.5 put $NVDA 20260424 182.5 PUT$  is still open. That said, NVDA likely stays above 190 this week. $TSLA$ Institutional spread this week: sell the 400 call $TSLA 20260424 400.0 CALL$ , buy the 420 call $TSLA 20260
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Preparing for Post-Earnings Pullbacks
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04-15

After the Bounce, Shorts Step Back In

$VIX$ A large VIX call order hit Tuesday: the 28 strike $VIX 20260519 28.0 CALL$  — 119.6k contracts, $11.48M in premium. A bet of this size implies a sharp, gap-filling move lower in the broader market. In theory, regional conflicts are winding down. The only thing Trump might be missing this time around — compared to 2025 — is that he never got to shout "buy" before the market did it on its own. But triggering a selloff just so he can make a speech? That sounds ridiculous. I'd rather believe someone else has an unknown reason to hedge with volatility. Another less clear VIX call: the 24 strike $VIX 20260722 24.0 CALL$ . The print landed right in the bid-
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After the Bounce, Shorts Step Back In
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04-14

Positioning for Earnings Season

The whole world now believes Trump won't keep fighting, so stocks keep rallying. There's a big difference between actually wanting war and pretending to fight while wanting a deal. As a result, some well-placed insider short positions that were heavily positioned for a crash this week are getting crushed — like the 31.3k contracts of the SMH 405 put for this week $SMH 20260417 405.0 PUT$ . Of course, something else could still happen this week. But looking at the lifecycle of these weekly options, this large order is likely headed to zero — unless Trump drops another "obliteration" tweet. Even then, I think the market would keep rallying. At today's open, a large bullish order hit: the software ETF IGV 90 call
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04-09

Will the Bullish Trend Continue? & Small Bets, Big Wins in Earnings Season

That's not an easy question to answer. But I checked the two perfectly timed insider large orders — $MU 20260618 400.0 CALL$  and $TSM 20260618 370.0 CALL$  — and neither has been closed. That suggests the trend could continue into earnings season. What's different between Q2 and Q1? Aside from the war, Anthropic announced $30B+ annualized revenue. Unlike OpenAI's verbal bragging, this sharp growth gives the AI sector a real shot in the arm. It won't lift all tech stocks, but it does keep the narrative alive that AI investment can generate strong returns. Anthropic's rapid rise is bad news for the software sector $IGV$, which is trending as weakly as Chin
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Will the Bullish Trend Continue? & Small Bets, Big Wins in Earnings Season
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04-08

Should We Bet on the Rebound?

Looking at the large option flows, after four consecutive up days, the market seems to have thrown in the towel. Sentiment can be broken into a few camps: No More Crash Camp: Short VIX $VIX 20260722 28.0 CALL$ , short SQQQ $SQQQ 20260410 76.5 CALL$ . Sideways Camp: Year-end sell puts on Intel $INTC 20261218 33.0 PUT$  and $INTC 20260918 39.0 PUT$ . Big Range-Bound Until May 1st: Sell put $NVDA 20260501 150.0 PUT$  + sell call
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04-02
$MU$ Micron shorts covered, followed by a $50 million bullish call order. I joked earlier that Trump wanted to buy MU cheap — shorting it hard with big put positions, and that once those puts closed, it might be time to bottom-fish. Turns out that wasn't entirely a joke. On Tuesday's open, two of the most prominent short-dated bearish positions were closed: $MU 20260424 420.0 PUT$ $MU 20260424 400.0 PUT$ $MU 20260424 380.0 PUT$  Then, looking at open interest, a new position emerged: 29,000 contracts of the June 18th 400 call $MU 2026
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03-31

War? Economy? Trump Just Wants Cheaper Stocks

$NVDA$ I had expected range-bound trading this week. But looking at NVDA's put flow — mostly clustered around 160 — there's a good chance we retest the 60-week MA. Institutional call spread for this week: sell 172.5 call $NVDA 20260402 172.5 CALL$ , buy 180 call $NVDA 20260402 180.0 CALL$ . The sharp sell-off in AI chip names might shake some confidence in demand. But nothing has fundamentally changed. It's just that stocks aren't cheap enough for Trump yet. Once these names get beaten down enough, the Iran-Israel conflict will magically get resolved. Sounds absurd — but check back when MU hits 300. Medium-term call spread rolled down: 180–200 from 190
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War? Economy? Trump Just Wants Cheaper Stocks
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03-28

Earnings Season Preview

$META$ Meta plunged about 8% on Thursday, triggered by an announcement to increase its Texas AI data center investment to $10 billion — the project was previously only $1.5 billion. Isn't this exactly what capital expenditure looks like in earnings reports? And Meta is showing the market that not only will capex not shrink this year, it will keep growing. That explains why Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all sold off along with it. Meanwhile, Apple $AAPL$ held up — sure, iPhone sales expectations are down due to higher hardware costs, but Apple's annual capex is in the tens of billions, not hundreds. Oh, and let's not forget Tesla, the cash-burning heavyweight, so it got dragged down too. Then, as luck would have it, Trump also felt the market hadn't dropped enough. Geopolitics plus AI spend
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Earnings Season Preview
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03-27

Trump: "Since You're Here Anyway"

At Thursday's open, Trump remarked that he expected stocks to fall harder. Shortly after, the market slid sharply and tested the previous low. What I took from that: the stocks he wants to buy haven't dropped enough. If I had to guess which one? Micron. No hard evidence — just a gut feeling. So maybe when MU hits 300, it's time to bottom-fish. Not because memory demand is broken — it's not. Just that the President isn't in the car yet. A lot of long positions opened Wednesday are now looking like left-hand entries. $NVDA$ The floor is 170. Wednesday saw a large sell put order on the April 10th 170 strike $NVDA 20260410 170.0 PUT$  — 27k contracts. Translation: no matter how volatile the next two weeks get, the expectation
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Trump: "Since You're Here Anyway"
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03-21

When Is the Right Time to Bottom-Fish?

$SPY$ When is it time to buy the dip? Not now. Simple reason: the current drop is pricing in the impact of surging oil prices — but what about earnings season? With triple witching (March 20) behind us, we're now three weeks out from Q2 earnings. Last quarter, spending was the main driver for stock moves. Spending up → stocks down. So if spending slows, does that mean stocks go up? Not so fast. Slower spending would signal that big tech is cautious on AI — which would almost certainly trigger a valuation reset. That's why I'm not surprised to see May puts targeting 600–625 on SPY. That's deeply pessimistic. Still, a bounce next week is possible. Put expirations are skewed further out than calls. So the market could swing violently either way — but options are expensive. Buying premium is a
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When Is the Right Time to Bottom-Fish?
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03-17

Triple Witching Playbook

$NVDA$ High probability: range-bound snoozefest. Low probability: total meltdown. War’s not over. Everyone’s waiting for Trump to drop the hammer. If he does — buy the crash. If peace breaks out instead? Short squeeze goes vertical. Usually selling calls here is risky. But for NVDA — and the rest of Mag 7 — squeeze potential is capped. Market’s glued to Q2 capex. No upside till earnings. Pick a strike with room, hedge it. Call spreads are fine. Institutions ran it back: same 185–190 spread as last week $NVDA 20260320 185.0 CALL$  $NVDA 20260320 190.0 CALL$ . 170 puts $NVDA 20260320 170.0 PUT$&
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03-13

Someone's Betting on a Gap Down Monday

$SPY$ The biggest trade: 29k of the March 17th 647 puts bought $SPY 20260317 647.0 PUT$  — over $4M in premium. March 17th is a Tuesday. Expiry like that? Only makes sense if someone's positioning for a Monday gap lower. Trump may want a quiet runway into triple witching, but Wall Street and the political machine behind him aren’t all rowing the same boat. If shorts in the US market start stirring up trouble, hard to stop it — the payoff from a crash is just too big. And who knows — maybe Trump himself is backing the downside. Talking stability, but betting on chaos. $NVDA$ Same story, different week. Still betting on a pullback to 170 $NVDA 20260320 170.0 PUT$&nb
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Someone's Betting on a Gap Down Monday
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03-12

Both Sides Watching From the Sidelines

$NVDA$ Tuesday's put flow suggests the panic has cooled — at least for this week. But institutions aren't letting their guard down. 40k of the March 20th 170 puts were bought to open $NVDA 20260320 170.0 PUT$ . If oil's reaction is any guide, we're likely in for the scenario I laid out yesterday: chop into triple witching. So NVDA grinds 180–190 into next week. $USO$ USO saw big blocks in puts — mostly longer-dated. Two strike buckets: 100 and 90. Means the market sees a stalemate near-term. Probability of a major drop in the next two weeks? Low. $TSLA$ First medium-term bullish call in a while: 510 calls bought $TSLA 20260515 510.0 CALL$  — 15.9k contr
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03-11

A Thought: All the Tension Gets Unleashed After Triple Witching

$NVDA$ I’m starting to think Trump is running the same playbook as last year — stall through March, let things get ugly in early April, then bounce. Monday saw 62k of the April 2nd 160 puts open $NVDA 20260402 160.0 PUT$ . Meanwhile, weekly 165 and 167.5 puts got closed out. Bearish flows are still there, but the consensus is breaking down compared to last Friday. One collar trade caught my eye: sell 180 call $NVDA 20260717 180.0 CALL$ , buy 2x 130 puts $NVDA 20260717 130.0 PUT$ . The 180 call premium? ~$20. The trader’s view: NVDA won’t break 200 by July. Selling the call funds the pu
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A Thought: All the Tension Gets Unleashed After Triple Witching
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03-09

Where Will We Bottom This Week?

$SPY$ SPY's path lower is becoming clearer — steadily grinding toward the 200-day moving average at 655. Notable flows: Weekly put spread: buy 655 $SPY 20260313 655.0 PUT$ , sell 635 $SPY 20260313 635.0 PUT$ . April put spread: buy 657 $SPY 20260402 657.0 PUT$ , sell 590 $SPY 20260402 590.0 PUT$ . Moral of the story: don't try to catch the knife before the 200-day MA. Whether we go sub-655? Hard to say. Trump's tweets aren't running the show anymore. $USO$ Oil and oil ETFs look like they'll resolve direction by March 20. C
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03-06

Big Trades Are In — Is It Time to Bottom-Fish Hang Seng?

$KWEB$ After breaking below its 200-week moving average, KWEB saw a few structured bullish flows — mostly hedged with puts. Target bounce zone: 32–33. From the expiry profile, this looks like a longer-term positioning. The rebound won't happen overnight. More chop and grind lower possible. But institutions now think these levels are worth structuring hedged long exposure. First structure: very low cost. After hedge, the call premium is just ~$0.30–0.50. Sell put 24 $KWEB 20270115 24.0 PUT$  — 50k Buy call 33 $KWEB 20260918 33.0 CALL$  — 50k Second structure: Sell put 28 $KWEB 20260417 28.0 PUT$&nb
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Big Trades Are In — Is It Time to Bottom-Fish Hang Seng?