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I placed a leap trade on Nvidia, that

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was life-changing last year. This video

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I will solidify how to best use a leap

0:07

option and use the strategy effectively

0:09

to scale. I respect your time, so in

0:11

this video I'm going to tell you that

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it's broken up into three important

0:15

parts. First, I explain why I opened my

0:17

previous Nvidia leap, which just

0:19

expired. This portion of the video will

0:21

be an old clip, but it's very important

0:23

to understand when I originally went

0:25

into Nvidia. Second part of this video,

0:27

I'm going to discuss the right setup for

0:29

a leap option in general. And third is

0:32

my new trade that I'm opening in August

0:34

2026 on Nvidia going into mid-2027,

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because I want to open up a new position

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as my last one has just expired. You're

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about to learn a lot. Let's get into it.

0:45

Well, what is a leap option? It's

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basically, the way I do it, it's a deep

0:49

in the money leap. So, I buy deep in the

0:52

money leaps because it kind of replaces

0:54

stock, okay? If you think about it, and

0:56

I'll go over some examples using my

0:58

portfolio as well. We'll actually open

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up and we'll go into an example very,

1:02

very soon. Let's go over an example

1:03

right now, actually. Let's open up my

1:05

portfolio. Let me show you an example

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first, and then I'll go over more

1:10

of my presentation,

1:12

okay? So, I want to show you Nvidia

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because I have recommended Nvidia at

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115. This is a little bit of time ago. I

1:20

recommended buying a leap option at 115.

1:23

Right? So, now, of course, Nvidia has

1:25

gone up and that leap option was very

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successful. But, I want to show you

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essentially a a new play on Nvidia, and

1:31

I want to explain to you a leap. So,

1:34

a leap is essentially just buying a call

1:36

option, okay? So, uh

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if you buy a call option

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in a leap option, they're the same

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thing, except the leap option goes out

1:44

very far in terms of date. So, a leap

1:46

option, you know, typically it's 20

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years. So, right now, if I go for June

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18,

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this is a leap option. This is going out

1:53

over 365 days. So, by definition, that's

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a that's a leap option, okay? Now, if

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you were to buy 100 shares of Nvidia,

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100 shares of Nvidia would be

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you know,

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$142, which is the current price of

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Nvidia, you know, times 100, it's

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$14,200.

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But uh instead, the most simple way you

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can understand this is if I go to the

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100 strike price, okay? I chose 115,

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really, but I'll go to the 100. The 100

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here is worth $53. So instead of 143,

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it's worth 53. It's a lot less, right?

2:27

Um so if I were to buy this leap option,

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okay? This allows me to control 100

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shares of Nvidia. The total cost here is

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$5,385,

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versus 100 shares, which would be, you

2:38

know, almost $15,000. So it's basically

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$5,000 versus $15,000, right?

2:44

Ballparking the numbers. So essentially,

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you're getting three times less, or 1/3

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of the cost uh of buying Nvidia when

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you're buying a leap option. Yeah,

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there's some specific reason for this.

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It's leverage, okay? You have leverage.

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Now, you do need to pay for leverage. In

3:00

the case of a mortgage, you pay with

3:02

interest or a fee, right? And and uh I

3:04

heard in Muslim countries, they're not

3:06

allowed to charge interest, so instead,

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what they do is they bake in a fee. So

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they say, "Hey, here's a flat fee,

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right?" For their religious reasons,

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right? Uh so in in this case, it's kind

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of similar to that. Came to my mind

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because you're not really paying

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interest, per se, on this uh leap

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option, but you're paying a fee up

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front. So you can see here that the

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break-even is 153, okay? But Nvidia is

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142. So yes, you're paying about $10 uh

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in terms of like a fee, or in terms of

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like a break-even amount that uh the

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stock would have to go up for you to

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break even, right? Um and we'll talk

3:41

about the behavior of a leap option,

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because you can actually make a lot of

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money on a leap option. It doesn't have

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to even You don't have to wait till

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expiration. All the complicated stuff,

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you can just simply hold it, and when

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you're happy, you can take your profit

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and leave. So, that's the nice thing

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about a LEAP option, it's very flexible.

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So, you can get in uh you can, you know,

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hold it for 2 weeks, 1 month, and we'll

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talk about that later on in this course.

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Uh and then you can just take profit and

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go. So, that's that's the nice part. So,

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I usually buy deep in the money LEAPs uh

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with a high delta, so 0.75, 0.85 would

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be like the highest delta um that you

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should really go for. Uh you can also go

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for 0.7 delta. My my sweet spot is 0.7

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um here my financial analyst wrote 0.75,

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0.85 when he was making the slides with

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me because 0.75, 0.85 is really kind of

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like that gold standard of you're

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replacing your stock. You're essentially

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owning stock for a fraction of the cost,

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right? At that point, you're basically

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moving dollar for dollar with the stock,

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okay? And what I mean by that is, again,

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going back to the beginning, when a

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stock goes up a dollar, you make a

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dollar, right? But with this LEAP

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option, when the stock goes up a dollar,

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uh you go up uh 85 cents, okay? Because

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the delta here is 0.85 and the delta

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really explains to you kind of how this

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option behaves. So, uh when the stock

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goes up $1, the option goes up the the

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same $1 multiplied by the delta. So, if

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it's a 0.85 delta, then it's going to go

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up 85 cents, okay? But here's the thing,

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when Nvidia goes up $1, okay? It goes up

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$1 on 142, which is like, you know, not

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even 1% return. Not not even like close

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to 1% return, right? It's like maybe

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half It's like not half, but it's like

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0.7% return, right? I'm ballparking.

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Number we'll put up on the screen right

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now. $1 divided by 142, it's about 0.7%

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give or take, whatever this number is on

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screen right now. But with a LEAP

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option, okay? If it goes up 85 cents,

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here's our new formula. 85 cents divided

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by $53.85,

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right? That is going to be about 1.6%

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or so, All

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This number right here is the answer.

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So, the first ballpark estimate was 0.7,

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which I think I'm in that range.

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And this one is 1.6%.

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So, it is more than two times the

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return. This leap option is better. It

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makes more than double the money for a

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$1 move in the stock. Okay? And that's

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simply because of leverage. You're

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You're making a little bit less money,

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but you're putting up so much less

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capital. You're putting up a lot less

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capital. And because you're putting up a

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lot less capital, you get a higher

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percentage return. All right, guys. I

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want to go over step-by-step a new leap

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option that I am looking for for Nvidia

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stock. So, check it out. Nvidia's

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currently going for $216 per share. I

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told my community anything around $200

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per share is an absolute steal. I ended

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up purchasing shorter-term call options,

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medium-term call options. I've done poor

6:43

man's covered call. Um I've done a lot

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of different strategies on Nvidia. And

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honestly, a lot of you guys are watching

6:49

a bunch of hype YouTube videos which you

6:51

think are helping you that are actually

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not helping you. They're just marketing,

6:54

okay? If you actually want to be

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successful long-term like I have been,

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and I built my own portfolio to multiple

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seven figures, and I have tracked this

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entire journey for the last 6 years here

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on YouTube. I just showed you a

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successful trade that I had on Nvidia,

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and I'm going to open up something that

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I believe is again going to change my

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life and my community's life. So, either

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you listen and you pay attention, or you

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know, you guys at your own risk you can

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miss out. Up to you. Look, Nvidia, it

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might not be the sexiest stock. It's

7:21

already had a bunch of gains. I get it.

7:23

I'm not Mr. Genius over here trying to

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pick the next, you know, whatever crazy

7:27

stock is going to hit a home run. No,

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no, no. I'm not trying to do that. I'm

7:30

trying to find something that is more

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stable, more consistent. And Nvidia,

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when I saw it at 190, guys, if you just

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missed a few days, that's it. You missed

7:39

a few days, right? Now, you had you can

7:40

see how much the stock has kind of

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rebound and recovered in the last one

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week, 10%. That's insane. That's

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essentially how much an entire stock

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market can go up an entire year, okay?

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So, of course, timing is important, but

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you know, if you're if you're late,

7:52

you're watching my YouTube videos after

7:54

the fact that I've already made this

7:55

trade in my community, that's fine. Let

7:57

me show you what I see in this trade

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going forward, okay? There's still

8:00

opportunity going forward. You didn't

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completely miss out. You just missed out

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on, you know, you missed out on this so

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far, but I think there's still more to

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come, okay? So, the position that I

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opened up was a 190 leap option, which

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has done already

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is already done really well, but look,

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let's go into the summer, okay? I want

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to go into the summer, June 17th, 2027.

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I went personally for March, but I want

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to give it a little bit extra time just

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in case you're watching this a little

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bit in the future. Um, so you have time

8:27

to actually set up properly, okay? So,

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June 17th is pretty much a year. It's

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not quite a year, so a leap option by

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definition is a year, but I don't care

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about definitions. I care about results.

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My goal is to help people, so let's not

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let's not look at the perfect

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definition. I'm looking at June 17th.

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It's about 10 and 1/2 months, okay?

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Which is great. That's a great time

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period because Nvidia is still going to

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have more earnings coming in. They

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actually have earnings at the end of

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this month of August. So, end of this

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month in August, they're going to

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report, and I believe they're going to

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report something very juicy, okay? We

8:59

just saw Palantir had earnings, and

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Palantir stock went to $160. They

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reported amazing earnings and really

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good guidance, and I think that's going

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to be a trend with a lot of other

9:08

stocks. Specifically, Nvidia. I think

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the AI buildout is still very much

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intact, and this is the biggest company

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in the world, of course. So, when I'm

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looking at a leap option, I have the

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190, which I mean, I it's already paid

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for itself in terms of any of my my

9:21

community members and in in coaching as

9:23

as far as that's involved, but you know,

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if you were to start something new

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today, it is up a little bit more, so

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let's just look at the 200. I have the

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190, but let's look at 200. 200 here has

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a 66 delta, okay? Implied volatility is

9:34

42, and the bid ask spread is is not

9:37

perfect, but it is good. Okay, it's a

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pretty good bid ask spread on Nvidia.

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So, check this out. if you have to buy

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100 shares of Nvidia, you're going to

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have to pay $21,000. Not everyone has

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that laying around, right? Not everyone

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wants to dish out all that capital up

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front. So, instead, what you can do is

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you can buy a leap call option.

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Essentially, it's very similar to owning

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100 shares of the stock. Okay, I

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actually view leap call options in the

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way of replacing stock. That's my goal.

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I want a very similar kind of advantage

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which is basically I put up less

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capital, but I still get to control 100

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shares. Of course, there's risks and

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dangers involved. The stock ends up

10:11

pulling back. And Nvidia could pull back

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and it has, but over the next 10 months,

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I really see Nvidia at about $250 per

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share, which is very important to

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mention because if you hold this

10:21

position until expiration, you're not

10:23

going to get that much. Okay, you have

10:25

to actually play this accordingly and

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actually manage the position along the

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way. And ideally, if Nvidia goes up

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towards 250, which I think can happen,

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well, built before June 17th. In that

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case, I would take profit. Let me kind

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of show you what this looks like. Okay,

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so 200 strike price, I'd have to pay

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$4,295.

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Okay, great. Well, that's pretty that's

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still pretty expensive. Okay, the break

10:47

even here is 242. My price target for

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Nvidia, 250. Okay, so I'm not being

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crazy here. 250 is nothing crazy, right?

10:55

If I said 350, okay, that's that's too

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much for a large cap stock to really

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move. Although, it's possible and Nvidia

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has done that many times. That would be

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a stretch. Okay, the danger there is

11:05

that my thesis would be too aggressive.

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But my thesis is I think pretty

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conservative, 250. Okay, so if I hold

11:12

until expiration, sure, I mean, I'd be

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in the money by $50 and I paid 43, so my

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cost would be 43 and then my expected

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you know, potential total exit point

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would be 50.

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It's not that attractive. Okay, you know

11:27

what would be much more attractive if

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this happens and that I believe the case

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will happen is if Nvidia is trading at

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250 and that happens within, you know,

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this year in 2026, right? So, we're in

11:38

August, let's say that in December,

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which is like 4 months away, right? That

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Nvidia is trading at 250. I would take

11:44

profit. And what would that profit look

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like? Well, essentially, we could we can

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calculate that. So, let's kind of go

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through how to manage this trade, okay?

11:51

Trade is pretty simple, okay? It's not

11:53

rocket science. I'm buying a 200 call

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option. That's it. But then, what do I

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do after that? Okay, that's the

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important part. That's where experience,

11:59

skill, and knowledge actually comes into

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play. My exit point, how I would manage

12:02

this trade, is essentially if Nvidia is

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at 250, which is my price target in like

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let's say December and that happens,

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then I I'm just trying to calculate how

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much this would be worth. It would be

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$50 in the money, right? So, it would be

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worth at least 50. And then, it would

12:16

have a bunch of time value left, which

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is kind of hard to do. You don't We

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don't know how much time value would

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have left. So, let's use delta, okay?

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So, if Nvidia goes from 216 to

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essentially 250, that's a $35 gain,

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which is essentially at a about a 70

12:30

delta, that's going to give me about $22

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increase here in the total value. The

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way I'm getting to that number is I'm

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just taking the amount that Nvidia, you

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know, goes up to 250, which is 35 bucks,

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and then I'm multiplying $35 * 0.7,

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okay? And I know that's roughly 22. I

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know that's roughly 22. So, roughly

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that's how much it would go up. This is

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a back-of-the-envelope, napkin math,

12:53

okay? This is not exact math, okay? It's

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hard to do exact math because there is

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other factors here. All these other

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Greeks are going to weigh in on the

13:00

option as well. But the most sensitive

13:02

number is delta. That's why I'm

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ballparking and my math is going to be

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pretty fairly close. It's not going to

13:08

be that far off because delta is the

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most sensitive of the number. Theta on a

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leap option, which will affect this

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negatively, okay? Theta is time, and as

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time happens, the option decays, it's

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not going to affect the option too much,

13:21

especially within the next 4 months.

13:23

It's going to happen, okay? The The here

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is $6, okay? And that means if it's $6,

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you can see 0.0594, which is if you

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multiply by 100, it's $5.94.

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That's what this number means, okay?

13:35

Theta is $5.94 per day in the amount of

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money that you lose, okay? You're

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renting this option out essentially.

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That's how you should think about a

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leap. You're renting it out. You're

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renting the option, right? And it

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controls 100 shares. And there's cost to

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that, right? Nothing in life is free.

13:50

The The only thing that's free in life

13:52

is the cheese in a mousetrap, okay?

13:54

There's a There's a saying in Russian

13:55

like that, okay? But here, if Nvidia is

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at 250, the delta is going to have the

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biggest weight and biggest impact on the

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on the leap option's value. Theta is

14:06

going to have $6, basically $6 per day

14:09

that you're going to lose. So, in a

14:11

month, 30 days roughly, $6 * 30 is going

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to be $180.

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I'm going to lose $180 per month. And

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essentially, it's not linear, but let's

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just do 180 and then add three more

14:25

months, right? Because it's a four-month

14:26

option. Three more months, 200 200 200,

14:29

okay? So, in this four-month period,

14:32

let's just call it 200 every month is

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what I'm going to lose. $800 I'm going

14:35

to lose. But when the delta here is 0.7

14:39

and I multiply that by the gain, I hope

14:41

I'm not losing you here. Replay this if

14:43

you have to. Simply said is that the

14:45

expected outcome will be about $2,200,

14:47

and the theta is going to hurt me by

14:49

800. So, what I expect will happen is my

14:52

exit point will be $1,400, which is

14:54

essentially 30%. That is my expected

14:57

outcome, which if Nvidia goes to 250,

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will be my exit point, okay? I know it's

15:01

a little bit complicated, and and I I

15:03

I'm happy to make this even more simple.

15:05

I do these type of examples all the time

15:07

in different ways in my community. This

15:09

is just one way where you can kind of

15:10

calculate one of the management

15:12

processes, okay? Of course, I've been

15:14

doing this for 12 years, and I hope I

15:15

didn't lose you with some of those

15:16

details. If you have any questions,

15:18

comment down below. I do I comments.

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have a full-time person deleting uh spam

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only place that you can actually reach

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15:35

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or if you want one-on-one coaching,

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which is a sep- different link, it says

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unfortunately, even there people pretend

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to, you know, be me and they scam, but

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it's pretty simple because once you're

15:55

in the program with me, I'm typically

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sending voice notes. I can get on calls,

15:59

so you know it's actually me. I am the

16:01

actual coach. Unlike many other

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programs, which even much of the other

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channels, where you purchase, you go on

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a webinar, you purchase, it's not

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actually the YouTuber who is giving you

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the coaching. It's his team. It's other

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people doing the work for him. In my

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community, it is me doing the work. In

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my one-on-one coaching, you get me. It's

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one-on-one coaching. I'm not outsourcing

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and giving it to other people. I love

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what I do. I'm here to help you. I'll

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help you scale personally. If you're

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interested in that, check out the

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description. Thanks so much for watching

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this video.

Interactive Summary

The video provides a comprehensive guide on utilizing 'deep in the money' LEAP call options as a strategic alternative to owning stocks, specifically focusing on Nvidia. The author explains the concept of LEAPs as leveraged instruments that require less capital, demonstrates how to evaluate them using Greek metrics like Delta and Theta, and details his own approach for managing such trades to achieve profit targets.

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