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Six months ago, I bought this AMD $200

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call option and shared the trade with my

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community in real time. At the time, it

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was not a popular trade. Today, the same

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position I'm holding has absurd gains.

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It's up hundreds of percent. Before I

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show you the results, I want to take you

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back to the moment where I made this

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exact trade and entered it and explain

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to you what I saw that most investors

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are missing, especially if you're a

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beginner. Pay attention to the process

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because the goal isn't just to copy old

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trades. The goal is to understand how

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opportunities like this are identified

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before they become obvious and then how

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to use leap options to capitalize on

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opportunities like this. Let's go back

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to the original trade where I first

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placed it and then I'm going to discuss

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why I'm still holding this position and

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my plan to exit this. All right, so the

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first stock I want to look at doing a

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leap option on is going to be AMD. I'm

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just going to look at the technicals

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here on AMD. I actually traded AMD back

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in my community when it was about $100

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per share. So, around these levels.

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Yeah, in the low hundreds, like 100 per

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share. And now it has gone up to 210.

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So, I've essentially gotten 100% return

1:05

there on the stock. Now, I didn't hold

1:06

the stock to that period. I did do some

1:08

leap options and I cut them out here.

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Ended up missing some of these gains.

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You know, I couldn't predict that it

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would go this high and that's fine. I

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did a good job. I'm not going to beat

1:15

myself up for missing some of this. The

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return that I got was absolutely insane.

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Given that AMD has fallen lower, I think

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that this is going to be one of the best

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leap option plays. I'm going to go to

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trade AMD options. I think AMD is one of

1:27

the most undervalued AI winners that's

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going to happen in 2026 cuz for years

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investors viewed AMD as distant

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runner-up, but it's really not. They're

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going to be a force to be reckoned with.

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AMD is entering a multi-year hypergrowth

1:39

cycle powered by AI data centers,

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next-gen Instinct GPUs, and a massive

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wave of inference spending. And 2026 is

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positioning to be the first explosive

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year of this transition. So, I'm very

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bullish on it. So, I'm going to buy call

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option and I'm going to go for a leap

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option that's going to expire in

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September of 2026. That's not exactly

1:58

like a leap, but it's close enough,

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right? Like we don't have to get

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definitions right. We're just trying to

2:02

make a bunch of money, right? And the

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whole point of the leap is that we get

2:05

access to AMD's upside without having to

2:07

pay full price for the stock. And again,

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AMD doesn't need to be capturing 10% of

2:12

a trillion-dollar market is enough to

2:13

scale and grow their valuation. A 20

2:15

times earnings multiple is what the

2:18

stock is being valued at in 2027

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earnings. So, in 2030, if they can make

2:23

$20 per share in earnings, then their

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new valuation is is going to be big. I'm

2:29

pretty sure this is going to be over

2:30

$500 market cap sooner than most people

2:32

think. And it's going to be headed

2:34

towards a $1 trillion valuation. I think

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$500 million can happen in 2026, which

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would push the stock price to $306. So,

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that's where I believe AMD is going to

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be. It's going to be a $306

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stock. So, at a $306 per share basis,

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that's what I'm looking at the stock

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doing in 2026, which is a very big

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run-up. So, looking at a leap option,

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I'm going to open up here 180, and we're

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going to take a look at this. This is

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around the sweet spot delta that I like.

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So, I mentioned going for around a 70

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delta. 70 delta is the most realistic

3:05

simple delta to go for because every

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dollar move is 70 cent move on the

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option. We don't need to go too heavy.

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Like, for example, if we go to 125 here,

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yeah, it's a 90 delta, but now you're

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paying half of the cost of whatever the

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stock is trading at, right? 97 bucks.

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That's going to be very expensive.

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Instead, I'm looking at this, which is

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going to be 1/4 of the price. So, I'm

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saving 75%. 75% versus buying an option

3:28

that's a lot cheaper. So, just because

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it's a deeper in-the-money option

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doesn't mean it's always better. So,

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this is the sweet spot, 70 delta.

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Implied volatility is really high at 55.

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That's great. Bid-ask spread is good.

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The market's closed right now. So, once

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the market opens up, I'll be making this

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trade. We're going to be paying $5800,

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and we have the 180 call option. And our

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break-even is 237, which is really not

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that high. Like, AMD can easily Like, oh

3:52

man, I'm very bullish on this position.

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AMD can easily be at this price within

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even like 3 months. Again, they have

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explosive data center growth. So,

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management expects 60% average annual

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growth in data center revenue the next 3

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to 5 years. Our leap options like in

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about a year, but this is going to be

4:08

starting a lot sooner than investors

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think. So, AMD is closing the gap

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between Nvidia. The MI450 series is a

4:14

major leap forward, narrowing the

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performance delta that Nvidia has

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enjoyed for many years. Finally, AMD's

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going to be making a lot more cash. This

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leap option right here, 180, I'm going

4:24

to be executing. And this is one of the

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smartest plays that I have that is going

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to help your portfolio grow if AMD goes

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up. So, if AMD reaches 250 per share in

4:33

the next 6 months, you can even close

4:35

this option and take profit on it a lot

4:37

sooner. You don't have to hold a leap

4:39

option until expiry. So, many people are

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like, "Well, if it goes to 250, yeah,

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I'll make some money. I'll be $13 in the

4:45

money, right? Well, beyond my break

4:47

even, but that's not really enough."

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Well, yeah, I mean, first of all, it's a

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good return. It's going to be like,

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what? 13 / 58 will be around like

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20-something percent return. If you cut

4:55

this position a lot sooner, then you're

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not only going to have it be in the

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money by a lot, you're also going to

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have a lot of time value left, right?

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So, if AMD's at 50, you'll have at least

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$70 of in-the-money value, right? Cuz

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250 minus the strike price of 180 is 70,

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right? But then you'll still have like

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half of the time value, right? And what

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is the time value right now? The break

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even? The difference between the break

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even and the current stock price is how

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much like value is on this option. So,

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this is 210 and this is 238, then

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basically it's 28 bucks of time value.

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You're going to have at least like 15

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bucks of that in like 6 months, at

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least. It's a ballpark estimate. We

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can't say the exact number because it'll

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vary and depend on many factors. But

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what I'm trying to get at is it's going

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to be like 70 bucks plus 15, this option

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will be worth about 95 bucks or so. So,

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from 58 to 95 if AMD's at 250, which I

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think is, in my opinion, like a pretty

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high chance. It's hard to say the exact

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chance, but a pretty high chance. So

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anyways, this is a really smart leap

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option play. Today, this position is

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worth dramatically more than when I

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bought it. But the interesting part

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isn't the gain itself. It's why I still

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haven't sold this position. To

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understand why I haven't sold, we first

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need to understand how a leap option

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actually works. What happens when you

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open up a leap position, and what

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happens while you're holding the leap

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position, and then finally, how do you

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actually close a leap position for a

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profit? When do you decide to close it?

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Because if you close it too early, then

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you leave money on the table. If you

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close it too late, you might make a

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really big mistake. So how do you open,

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manage, and close, step-by-step? The

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first thing that beginners really need

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to understand is that nothing really

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happens immediately. And that is the

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whole point of a leap option. The stock

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didn't really explode the next day. AMD

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didn't just go from a $200 stock to $500

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stock overnight. That didn't happen. And

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that's fine, because a leap is a

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long-term call option. 12 months to be

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exact in duration. However, often times,

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I will go for a leap option, and I'll

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make some sacrifices. I'll go for a

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9-month leap option. That's not bad if

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you have a strong thesis like I did with

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AMD. And when you see my final result,

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you will understand why I was

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comfortable going for a little bit less

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than 12 months. I like a high delta leap

6:56

option. My ideal delta is 70 delta. The

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reason that I like a 70 delta is because

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that would be an in-the-money option.

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In-the-money option is basically when

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the stock is already above the strike

7:08

price. So that would be a deep

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in-the-money call option. in-the-money

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call option with a delta of 70 really

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acts more like a stock. It has

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stock-like behavior. And that's exactly

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what I wanted with this trade. I wanted

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to put up less capital up front. I

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wanted to have big rewards. I wanted to

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have big leverage into the position,

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because I was very bullish on AMD. I

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needed time for my thesis to play out.

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Because I couldn't predict what's going

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to happen with AMD. As you saw with my

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old clip, I was saying that AMD is a

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$306 stock per share within about 6

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months. And now, 6 months has passed,

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and the stock has gone a lot higher.

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Along the way, I have changed my price

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target. As AMD continued to rise, I saw

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momentum indicators telling me that this

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stock was no longer a $300 stock, closer

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to $400 per share, and then it continued

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to surprise me. Luckily, I still have

7:56

this position open, and it's going to be

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interesting to analyze in the final

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result. But, I first want you to

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understand leap options deeper. So, the

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whole point of a leap option is to have

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that long-term thesis, and to have an

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expiration that's at least 9 months, or

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traditionally 12 months. If you're a

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beginner, just go for a 1 year out leap

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option. And that leap option can behave

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very similar to a stock. It can replace

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a stock because, essentially, a call

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option is 100 shares of exposure. And

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when you have a delta of 70, that means

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for every $1 move in the stock, then the

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premium will go up by 70 cents. So, $1

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equals 70 cents worth of gains. However,

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it's not really a dollar-for-dollar

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investment, right? So, it costs $200 to

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buy the stock. Now, when we go into what

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a leap option is, you can see right here

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that I ended up buying just one contract

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here, and this one contract was $5,000.

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Had I bought AMD straight up 100 shares,

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it would be about $200 in change, right?

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From when I had bought it on January

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5th. This actually cost me $5,300,

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okay? So, I got a four times cheaper

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cost. It was literally about 25% of the

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total cost had I, you know, had to buy

9:00

100 shares. Now, a leap option still has

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risk. If the stock goes down, you will

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end up losing money on your leap option.

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But, the biggest benefit of a leap

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option is it has enough time. You can't

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predict what's going to happen next

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week. That's way too risky. That's

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basically gambling, right? Nobody knows

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what's going to happen week to week. I'm

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not looking to make short-term

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predictions. What I'm looking to do is

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get behind the trend, get behind the

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high-quality company, looking at

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fundamentals as well as technical

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indicators, such as RSI and Bollinger

9:25

Band, which I'm going to show you in

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just a moment. Not all trades are going

9:28

to work out, especially when you have

9:29

low time. The biggest money isn't made

9:32

by finding a great stock in the short

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term. It's really by riding momentum.

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That's why I love leap options, and

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that's why in my new Discord community,

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I am focusing on scaling my new

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portfolio, which I'm going to add

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$100,000 into, and I'm going to be

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scaling that with only leap options.

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Now, let's go over some technical

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analysis on AMD and what could have gone

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wrong. Okay, in the last 6 months, if

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you see, I go right back here, this is

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essentially when I started covering AMD

9:56

and saying that I'm very bullish. I have

9:58

made videos on AMD when it was $100 per

10:00

share. I've been doing this YouTube

10:01

thing for a long time, and I've been

10:02

coaching for a long time. I took a break

10:04

from it going from 100 to 150, and then

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I had not been in the stock, and then I

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got interested in it. Again, it's I'm

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I'm not perfect. I make mistakes, too.

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But, I got really interested right here,

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okay? And then, when I got into this

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position, it was January 5th, okay? And

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honestly, it was not a straight line up.

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As you can see here, pretty quickly, my

10:20

leap option did gain value, and I didn't

10:21

take screenshots along the way. I gave

10:23

this to my community, and I said, "We're

10:24

going to be holding this up until 3

10:26

months until expiration because time

10:28

decay really starts eating away at the

10:30

option the last 3 months, and that's

10:31

where we're at right now. This option

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expires in September, and right now it's

10:34

in June. So, we have a little bit over

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90 days, and when I looked at this

10:37

position, I was shocked. Like, when you

10:39

see the results, wow, it's shocking.

10:41

There's a lot to learn from this

10:42

position, and honestly, can it happen

10:44

again? Well, man, I'm going to get into

10:46

that in just a moment. Look, so January

10:48

5th, right? When I got into this leap

10:49

option, I spent 5,000, you know, $200 in

10:52

the pick, and the leap option was not

10:54

performing in the first couple of days,

10:56

and it started performing really well.

10:57

This is a really common mistake. I said

10:59

in the clip, "I think this stock not a

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$200 stock. I think it's a $250 stock."

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And it hit 250 within 30 days of when I

11:05

said it. This is so dangerous because I

11:07

have a gain on my hands, and I could

11:08

have just taken profit, and from 200 to

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250 with a delta of 70, that's a $35

11:13

gain, and I had spent essentially

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$5,000. So, I had a $3,500 gain. So,

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essentially, my $5,000 money that I put

11:19

in as an investment, the total value was

11:21

8,500, okay? I was up, and typically,

11:23

when I see I'm up between 30 to 50%, I

11:26

take profit. However, here, there is a

11:28

risk of taking profit too early. A lot

11:31

of people say, "Oh, you never go broke

11:32

taking profits." That is true. However,

11:35

in this situation, the final result is

11:36

so shocking. Me holding on to this

11:38

position by having just one contract

11:40

ended up having a huge difference. So,

11:42

here I could have made a big mistake. I

11:44

could have sold because my price target

11:46

was 250. But, I had done my research and

11:48

I had realized that despite kind of

11:49

being above the Bollinger Band, I had

11:51

told my community, "I see more

11:52

momentum." Okay? And I'm going to talk

11:54

about the momentum factor a little bit

11:56

later when we get into the current price

11:58

and where I see AMD heading next. But,

11:59

here I had determined that there would

12:02

be more momentum. And, of course, I

12:04

looked really, really stupid. Of course,

12:06

I told my community where there's more

12:07

momentum, you know, let's not sell. I'm

12:09

going to hold. Okay? That is my

12:10

decision. And, it was a pretty difficult

12:12

hold over the next basically 2 weeks.

12:14

You can see here that not a whole lot

12:16

happened. This is very frustrating

12:18

because a lot of beginner investors will

12:19

start to second-guess themselves. And,

12:21

I've been doing this thing for over 11

12:22

years. My education at Goldman Sachs and

12:24

my time at Wall Street had taught me

12:26

that don't be fooled by the market. And,

12:28

when you look at short-term selling

12:30

pressures, if institutions are not

12:32

dumping the shares, and this is just

12:34

markets going down, and there's

12:35

correlation, all stocks go down with the

12:37

market together, and they also rise

12:38

together, like a tide rises all boats,

12:40

then that's one sign not to sell a

12:43

high-quality company. So, that's what I

12:44

had determined that that was the case

12:46

here. This is a difficult time because

12:48

this LEAP option I was excited about.

12:50

And, after making this gain, I given it

12:52

all back and then some, right? So, you

12:54

can imagine how dumb I felt and how

12:56

difficult it was to manage. So, really,

12:58

my management strategy is typically I

13:00

have stop losses in place. And, in my

13:02

new program, I'm going to be teaching

13:03

stop losses. I'm going to show you how

13:05

I'm going to manage this trade going

13:06

forward. But, at this point, I had not

13:08

really developed my current framework

13:09

that I'm going to be implementing right

13:11

now in my scaling growth challenge. I

13:13

was thinking here, I really want to cut.

13:15

But, call it intuition, call it

13:16

experience, I said, "No, I don't want

13:18

to." Okay? So, I didn't cut, and you can

13:20

see how basically there was sideways

13:22

action. Okay? From essentially here,

13:24

like February 5th, all the way to April,

13:27

right? To April 1st, April 2nd, not a

13:30

whole lot happened. And that's the good

13:32

news with a LEAP option. A LEAP option

13:34

is a long-term call option has a very

13:35

low theta. Theta is time decay, all

13:37

right? So, if you look at the theta of

13:39

an option, whatever that number is,

13:41

that's how much you're losing in value

13:43

per day. I'll show you the current

13:44

position and the final results in a

13:45

second, so I'm not going to open it up

13:47

yet. But basically, let's say that the

13:48

theta was about 0.02. Basically, that

13:50

means for one contract, I'm just losing

13:52

$2 per day. So, whenever I'm holding it

13:54

from February 5th all the way to April

13:56

2nd, that's basically 60 days. During

13:58

those 60 days, if you actually do the

14:00

calculation of theta, $2 a day times 60,

14:02

it's like $120. Uh maybe it was $3,

14:05

right? I don't have a screenshot, but it

14:06

was like two or $3. It's not much

14:08

because LEAP options don't have high

14:10

theta at first. Theta kicks in on the

14:12

last 3 months, okay? So, I had known

14:15

that basically every day that I'm

14:16

holding this, not much is happening to

14:17

AMD, which is frustrating. However, as a

14:20

investor who has a thesis, I don't have

14:22

to look at the option every single day,

14:24

especially if it's LEAP option, I have

14:25

time. My kind of process is I've done my

14:28

research, I know my research is more

14:30

often than not correct because I've

14:32

rigorously tested it, I've used data,

14:33

I've used fundamental analysis and

14:35

technical analysis. I've combined the

14:36

whole process, and if what I think is

14:38

not happening in the short term, that's

14:40

fine. This LEAP option has low theta.

14:42

So, over this two-month period, I've

14:43

probably lost on this option like 30

14:45

times 60, 180 bucks. Not a big deal. It

14:48

is not a big deal when the LEAP option

14:50

that I paid $5,000 for is down a couple

14:52

hundred bucks. So, actually this period,

14:54

although I'm not making money, I'm not

14:56

losing much money, either. Again, that's

14:58

the biggest benefit of a LEAP option,

14:59

okay? From there on, it's been my thesis

15:01

has kind of played out. As the stock has

15:03

gone up, I've told my community, "I'm

15:05

still holding this, you know, LEAP

15:06

option, and it's continued to do very

15:09

well." And as you can see, there's an

15:10

expansion of the Bollinger band. So, a

15:11

LEAP option is a bullish strategy. The

15:13

biggest risk to a LEAP option is the

15:15

underlying stock, okay? The underlying

15:17

stock being AMD. What was the biggest

15:18

risk? AMD could have lost a market share

15:21

to Nvidia. Revenue growth could have

15:23

disappointed and management could have

15:25

guided lower and all those things could

15:26

upset investors and investors could end

15:28

up selling the stock and that is one of

15:30

the biggest risks is a leap option is a

15:31

bullish strategy. So, if the stock goes

15:33

down, the leap option is losing money

15:35

and it can go from a deep in the money

15:37

leap option to at the money. And if it's

15:39

at the money, you have no intrinsic

15:41

value. What I mean by that is the

15:42

option's not really worth anything if

15:44

you were to exercise it. Now, you

15:45

shouldn't really exercise an option

15:47

anyways because you should have just

15:48

trade the option itself and profit off

15:50

of the option itself. But, what I'm

15:51

getting at is there's no intrinsic

15:53

value. If AMD fell below 200, my 200

15:56

call option is out of the money. It's

15:58

not worth anything except for the time

16:00

remaining on it, right? Now, that didn't

16:02

happen and if that were to happen, that

16:05

may have been a difficult situation for

16:06

me to manage. However, because my

16:08

position sizing is correct, I only had

16:10

one contract here. I'm trying to scale a

16:12

100k portfolio, then it was not that big

16:14

of a deal. Putting $5,000 in versus a

16:16

$100,000 portfolio was 5% position

16:18

sizing. I pay close attention to risk

16:20

management and position sizing

16:21

principles. This is very important as a

16:23

beginner. Even if you do all your

16:24

research and you have incorrect position

16:25

sizing, it's not perfect. We can be

16:27

wrong. Even the best investors can be

16:28

wrong. That was important to my overall

16:31

entry into the position. Not just am I

16:32

confident in AMD, not only is it

16:34

technical and fundamental analysis, but

16:36

it was also the size of the position,

16:37

the bet that I'm making. That's very

16:39

important. A negative situation would

16:40

have been that AMD stock would go down

16:42

and time would have passed and then if

16:44

you get into the final three months,

16:45

that's when I would cut the position,

16:47

right? So, if it's down 50% on premium,

16:48

so I paid $5,000. If the position is now

16:51

worth $2,500, that is also in my

16:53

criteria a time to evaluate this option

16:56

and to close it out. One of the biggest

16:57

risks to a leap option is having too

17:00

little time. In this situation, I don't

17:02

have too little time. As AMD developed,

17:04

it was well within the money. Even when

17:06

it was above 250, I started setting stop

17:08

losses at 275 and then it continued to

17:10

run and then I would inch up my stop

17:12

loss. I would go from 275 to 285, 295,

17:15

300 and so on and so forth. I continued

17:17

to raise my stop loss. Let's get into

17:19

the current position I have and the

17:20

technical analysis of AMD right now,

17:22

what I'm doing going forward, and why

17:24

I'm still holding this position. I can

17:25

show you here the Bollinger Band at the

17:27

time of purchase, it was basically right

17:29

in the middle of the Bollinger Band, and

17:30

I had seen that fundamentally and

17:32

technically, I believe that AMD would

17:34

rise. Currently, where you see AMD

17:36

trading at $511

17:38

in share price, it's actually still

17:40

around the middle of the Bollinger Band.

17:41

The Bollinger Band has expanded

17:43

significantly. The Bollinger Band tells

17:45

you, based off of volatility, what range

17:46

is a stock likely to trade within. This

17:49

Bollinger Band continues to expand

17:51

because of volatility is expanding.

17:52

Volatility is higher, but also the

17:54

momentum is very strong towards the

17:56

upside. So, you can see here the moving

17:58

average is rising very quickly. Now,

18:00

when you have a stock like this, it can

18:02

be difficult to look at indicators,

18:03

which is why one of the indicators that

18:05

I'm using within my program is sentiment

18:07

score. Sentiment score is looking at

18:08

social media factors, and I have a model

18:10

which I put inputs in. Social media

18:13

could be YouTube, X, Reddit. There's

18:15

multiple different social media

18:16

platforms, and I gain a sentiment score,

18:18

and that is part of my personal process

18:20

into how I've been able to pick stocks

18:22

very early. That's how I've been able to

18:24

catch stocks like Palantir and AMD. I

18:27

have been using a sentiment score, and

18:29

that is what probably makes me unique.

18:30

That's something that I learned during

18:31

one of my hedge fund experiences. So,

18:33

this is something that I'm implementing

18:34

in my Discord community now with this

18:36

new program with the LEAPs is I still

18:38

see opportunity here. I still see more

18:40

upside into AMD, which is the reason why

18:42

I'm holding this. What I'm seeing from

18:43

the sentiment score institutions still

18:45

have interest in AMD right now. What I'm

18:47

seeing right now is fundamentals

18:49

continue to improve, earnings estimates

18:51

continue to move higher, and the AI

18:52

roadmap is still developing. Time decay

18:54

of a LEAP option is very little at

18:57

first, but it kicks in, right? And right

18:58

now, I'm reaching the final 3 months

19:00

because this option expires on September

19:02

18th. Here is the LEAP option. Here is

19:04

the final result. 496%

19:08

and the $5,000 that I put in is now over

19:12

$31,600.

19:14

This option expires on September 18th,

19:17

so I have over 90 days currently, but

19:19

I'm quickly approaching the 3-month

19:20

window for when it's very important to

19:23

manage the position properly. A new

19:25

strategy that I will be implementing

19:26

going forward will be using stop losses.

19:29

So, stop losses is basically if the

19:31

stock reaches below a certain level, you

19:33

automatically get out of the stock. This

19:35

is much better for risk management.

19:37

Although stop losses in the past I have

19:39

not been the biggest fan of because

19:40

intraday sometimes you can get really

19:42

bad price. I am implementing this

19:44

because we are in a more volatile

19:46

market, and in a volatile market there's

19:48

actually a lot of opportunities. So,

19:50

even a stop loss which kind of gets me

19:53

out of a position which might not always

19:55

be optimal will actually reduce my risk.

19:57

However, tides can obviously turn very

19:59

quickly. So, what I'm looking for is

20:01

more gains on AMD, but also I am going

20:04

to be setting tight stop losses,

20:05

especially as I get into the final 90

20:08

days of this option position. As the

20:10

position moves more in my favor, I will

20:12

periodically raise my stop loss to

20:14

protect gains while still giving the

20:16

trade enough room to continue working.

20:18

So, I'll be basically following it and

20:21

stepping up with it as it continues to

20:23

go up. And the goal isn't to predict the

20:25

exact top. I'm not going to do that,

20:27

right? I'm not a genie. I can't predict

20:29

the future. I'm not a financial advisor.

20:30

And even if I had all these licenses, I

20:32

still probably would not be able to

20:35

predict the future. So, what I'm trying

20:36

to do is not to predict the exact top.

20:38

That's impossible. That's gambling.

20:40

That's trying to time the market. The

20:42

goal is to participate in as much of the

20:44

trend as possible. We're in an AI

20:47

revolution with lots of volatility.

20:48

There's so much opportunity right now.

20:51

So, I am looking to participate in the

20:53

trend while protecting a meaningful

20:55

portion of the gains if momentum starts

20:58

to reverse. So, can this happen again?

21:00

Can AMD have an explosion upwards? Well,

21:03

let me tell you my personal opinion. AMD

21:05

has Advancing AI 2026 which is an event

21:08

coming up on July 22nd, 23rd, which is

21:11

roughly in a little bit over a month.

21:13

That's going to put me into the period

21:14

where it's essentially close to that

21:16

60-day mark. I'm completely okay with

21:18

that. This is probably the biggest

21:19

near-term catalyst for AMD that I see

21:22

right now. AMD is expected to showcase

21:24

its AI roadmap, Instinct accelerators,

21:27

rack-scale systems, and AI

21:28

infrastructure strategy. Investors will

21:30

be watching closely for updates on

21:32

MI350, Helios hyperscaler adoption, and

21:35

AI partnerships. I'm going to be

21:37

watching my position very carefully, and

21:38

around these dates is my plan to exit

21:41

the position for a profit. So, let's

21:42

analyze my current results. This is not

21:44

financial advice, this is educational

21:46

purposes only. I'm just going to be

21:47

looking at my current position, telling

21:49

you what I think about it. This position

21:50

has grown to a $31,000

21:52

value. Every time AMD is moving right

21:54

now, I'm going to show you the Greeks,

21:56

okay? The Greeks are basically the

21:57

delta, the gamma, the theta, etc. The

21:59

delta is 0.97. So, this LEAP option,

22:02

which I had purchased, had a delta of

22:04

close It was probably a little bit under

22:07

because I didn't buy the option when it

22:08

was too deep. I bought a in-the-money

22:10

option, but it wasn't super deep in the

22:12

money. It was around probably 68, 67

22:14

delta when I had purchased it. Now, it

22:16

is a 97 delta. That means every time

22:19

that AMD is moving up by $1, I'm getting

22:22

97 cents on the dollar, okay? I'm moving

22:24

up similar to what the stock is doing.

22:27

My LEAP option is functioning as a stock

22:29

replacement. I have a stock replacement

22:30

through a LEAP strategy. That's what I

22:32

like about a LEAP strategy is because it

22:33

can be a very efficient strategy. You

22:35

can have a very similar exposure to the

22:37

stock, but the risk is you also have a

22:39

similar downside exposure. That's why I

22:41

have started to use stop losses within

22:43

my new strategy in 2026 because we have

22:46

a volatile market, and it's important to

22:48

ride momentum higher. The gamma here is

22:49

extremely low. The gamma explains how

22:51

much delta is changing. The gamma here

22:53

is very low. So, delta is not really

22:54

changing a whole lot because AMD is so

22:57

in the money, when it goes up a dollar

22:58

or goes down a dollar, delta is not

23:00

changing much. We are so deep in the

23:02

money, this leap option is functioning

23:04

essentially as almost 100 shares. It's

23:06

very similar. The theta here is pretty

23:08

high. 0.10 means it is losing $10 per

23:10

day. And that's pretty high when you're

23:12

buying a call option that's out of the

23:13

money and it's worth $500. $10 a day to

23:16

lose on a $500 position, that's a lot.

23:17

But $10 a day to lose on a position that

23:20

I bought for this price here on January

23:22

5th, as you can see, and now the total

23:23

value is over $31,000, that's not a big

23:26

deal. So, I am not concerned with theta

23:28

yet. It's not much of an issue. Once I

23:30

get into the event that AMD is going to

23:32

have, either before, on the event, or

23:34

after event, theta will probably be

23:36

double at that point. Theta might be 20,

23:38

and the risk with theta is it's going to

23:40

eat away part of my option. This $200

23:43

call option that I have is worth $316,

23:47

so it's really a combined value of $15.

23:49

So, if I were to sell this right now,

23:51

I'm essentially getting a bit more money

23:54

than, you know, the at 514, because I'm

23:56

essentially getting a total value of

23:57

516, okay? That little $2 difference is

24:00

a difference with time value. That's how

24:02

much time is currently on the option.

24:03

So, as you can tell, it's not really

24:06

that much time currently affecting this

24:08

leap option's value. It's currently a

24:10

whole lot of value that's just in the

24:12

money value, just intrinsic value, just

24:14

a massive amount. So, essentially, I am

24:16

holding almost 100 shares of AMD.

24:19

Instead of having this position, which

24:21

would cost me now around $50,000 versus

24:24

when I had first bought it, it would

24:26

have been $20,000, that is super

24:28

expensive. I am holding $31,000. So,

24:31

that's not cheap, but it is giving me a

24:34

significant benefit because I don't have

24:35

to hold the full $50,000, I'm holding

24:38

$31,000, and I'm getting the same

24:40

benefit almost that I would have 100

24:42

shares of AMD at this point. The biggest

24:43

lesson is holding profits and letting

24:45

them run is extremely important. Making

24:48

the mistake of selling too early will

24:49

cost you dearly. As you have seen in

24:51

this example, it will literally cost you

24:53

hundreds of percentages of difference.

24:56

And honestly, that's why I built my LEAP

24:57

option community right now. That's why

24:59

I'm going to be doing 10 to 20 LEAP

25:01

options per quarter in my new LEAP

25:03

options community on Discord, where I

25:05

will be identifying opportunities that I

25:07

think are very good candidates to run.

25:09

Because really, the goal isn't to find

25:11

AMD 6 months ago, okay? That's kind of

25:13

in the past now. The goal is finding the

25:15

next AMD or the next stock that is going

25:17

to be likely to win, likely to run, gain

25:20

momentum from a trend that other people

25:22

are overlooking or misunderstanding,

25:24

right? opportunity just like AMD. It was

25:26

very misunderstood 6 months ago,

25:28

clearly, right? The goal isn't to look

25:30

back and beat ourselves up. The goal is

25:32

to find whatever the next AMD is through

25:34

a LEAP option. So, I'm going to be

25:35

running 10 to 20 LEAP option positions

25:37

per quarter in my new Discord community

25:40

that I'm allocating $100,000 into. This

25:42

is an open community. I'm going to be

25:43

including this new strategy and

25:45

portfolio management techniques on

25:47

managing LEAP options, spotting new

25:48

opportunities, spotting stocks to run

25:50

LEAP options on, and building my new

25:53

$100,000 portfolio, which I'm starting

25:55

as soon as I upload this video and as

25:57

soon as the market opens up. I'm going

25:59

to be allocating $100,000 and basically

26:01

getting off to the races and starting my

26:03

coaching calls and showing you guys

26:05

which LEAPs I'm buying and how we manage

26:06

those LEAP options. I'll see you in the

26:08

new Discord community. Thanks for

26:10

watching and I'll catch you in the next

26:11

one.

Interactive Summary

The video details the speaker's successful experience using LEAP options to invest in AMD, turning a $5,000 investment into over $31,000. He explains the rationale behind choosing AMD, the importance of long-term bullish theses, and how he manages the trade. He emphasizes that while LEAP options provide leverage, proper position sizing, risk management, and the use of stop losses are crucial for success, especially as the options approach expiration.

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