u/Fried_Yoda

Hello, I am new here and new to options trading. So far I have been doing it for a week and it's going great. I'd like to share my strategy to help others.

I can't believe how incredibly easy this is, but with a little effort you can be a successful trader like myself.

Step 1: View the SPX Chart about 30 minutes after market open

Step 2: Check the trend. Is it currently in an upswing, downswing, or neutral.

Step 3: If it is not neutral, buy SPX options ATM in the direction the day is moving. I watch the chart and if it falls -20% I exit, otherwise I just create a mental stop to exit the trade once a certain profit target has been hit. As you can see I started slow, with just a few percentage points, then became more and more comfortable hitting 20-30% returns.

Step 4: ????

Step 5: PROFIT

With a 21% weekly return, that's equivalent to an annual return of over 1,300,000%. With 33 weeks remaining in the year, I expect to have around $48,740,490.58 by New Year's Eve.

In short, really simple set strategy that prints money. All you have to do is look at the charts and the way the line is moving. I hope this helps people make money!

Regards.

ETA: I’m already getting DMs from people asking me to try out their strategies as well. Some person trying to tell me that there’s a strategy selling wheels? lol I’m not falling for it. What do cars have to do with this? People are just jealous of my success. I was just trying to share my knowledge. Proves that no good deed goes unpunished.

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But I don't want to use Claude for this so I am testing both gemma-4-31b-it and qwen3.6-35b-a3b. I have a M4 Pro Mac with 48GB of RAM so I'll be using Q4_K_XL quants from Unsloth. I am using LM Studio to test things out. I completely understand that I will have to use something else in order to create the Agent, like Hermes or whatnot.

The problem is I can't get either model to really follow the prompt. For example, the prompt explicitly says not to use em-dashes, and the model spits out a response with em-dashes. I also am having issues with persistent memory and having the LLM "learn." I added {%- set preserve_thinking = true %} to the Qwen Jinja template but that doesn't seem to do anything. I'd say the local model gets about 50-60% of the way there on the first attempt, with a 3-5 additional chats of tweaking to get it right.

I feel like I'm missing something here. I'm not a programmer so I'm kind of just looking up solutions online or asking Gemini or Claude for advice, but it's getting me nowhere. I've found some options out there but they are essentially "feed it 10-20 writing samples" but those rarely get it right or understand nuance. I feel like the prompt linked above does a much better job.