Wealth Building With Options

In this episode of Wealth Building with Options, host Dan Passarelli dives into one of the most powerful – and often overlooked – forces shaping trading decisions: the endowment effect. This behavior…

Dan sits down with longtime market maker Kevin “Lex” Luthringshausen to demystify how options markets actually work behind the scenes. They cover dealer/market-maker behavior, why hedging is the real…

Options trading is all about choice—and in this episode, Dan Passarelli breaks down why those choices create real value for investors. From adjusting strikes to rolling trades, Dan dives deep into ho…

In this episode of Wealth Building with Options, host Dan Passarelli dives deep into one of the most popular and misunderstood strategies in options trading: the Wheel Strategy. Drawing inspiration f…

In this episode of Wealth Building with Options, Dan Passarelli opens with a hilarious rant about Hulu's "double dipping" business model—charging subscribers AND showing ads—which becomes the perfect…

A candid conversation with one of the options industry’s most influential figures, tracing the explosive growth of the options market, the evolution of strategies like covered calls and cash-secured …

In this episode, Dan explores the strategic rationale behind trading long-term buy-writes, even when they offer lower theta compared to shorter-term options. While conventional wisdom might suggest o…

"There's the kind of stock you date, and the kind of stock you marry."

In this episode of Wealth Building With Options, Dan explores what it means to have "commitment issues"—not in relationships, bu…

In this episode, Dan shares a hilarious childhood story (yes, he did bite a nurse) and takes a nostalgic look at Highlights magazine to set up a powerful trading lesson about spotting subtle—but mean…

Dan Passarelli kicks off this episode with a wild story from the trading floor—complete with Hulk-like rage and a colorful nickname—and uses it to dive deep into one of the most powerful and misunder…

In this episode of Wealth Building with Options, host Dan Passarelli explores one of the most powerful, yet often overlooked, concepts in successful trading: edge. Whether you're seeking an advantage…

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You wouldn’t build a garden without a plan (or at least you shouldn’t). And you sure as heck shouldn’t place a covered call or cash-secured put without knowing exactly why you’re doing i…

In this episode of Wealth Building with Options, Dan dives deep into the three critical criteria for selecting the best strike and expiration when selling cash-secured puts:

• Support levels
• Theta (bo…

In this episode, Dan Passarelli dives deep into the strategy that many investors think they understand — but often get wrong: cash-secured puts. While most investors learn to sell puts early in their…

Dan Passarelli is joined by Jeffrey Hirsch, editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, to talk seasonality, market cycles, and the powerful edge of timing your trades around historical patterns. …

Welcome back to Wealth Building with Options! In this episode, we’re diving deep into a trader's secret weapon: the Trade Objective of the covered call strategy — specifically, using covered calls to…

In this deep-dive episode, Dan Passarelli lays out the OG Covered Call setup—the foundational approach to trading covered calls that every serious trader should understand. This episode is Part 1 of …

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In this episode, Dan dives into one of the most misunderstood aspects of options trading: the Greeks — and more importantly, where the real edge in trading actually comes from. Contr…

Episode 13 – The Golden Age of Options: A Conversation with Steven Sears

In this episode of Wealth Building With Options, Dan Passarelli sits down with one of the most influential voices in the optio…

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In this episode, Dan Passarelli breaks down a powerful trading concept: using cash-secured puts as a smarter, more strategic version of limit orders. If you've ever hesitated about a…