Beware of Getting Half the Truth. It's Your Money, So Understand THIS:

I read something the other night that made me stop and shake my head.

Someone was bragging about “making 3% a month selling premium” and then claiming it beats 99 percent of hedge funds. Simple math, right?  3% x 12:  You're a superstar.  Ken Griffen is on the phone by the way.

My wife overheard me muttering at my screen and said, “Why don’t you ever post stuff like that? Everyone else does.”

Here’s why. 

#1

I have integrity.  I understand that running a business involves a bit of salesmanship. But my reputation has been built on real insight, real tools, a respect for risk, and an upfront approach. 

Take my student RK, who has worked with me for 8 months.  I would say he's just about an expert on gurus:

"..Hans, you're it. I've spent over $120 thousand on options courses over the last six years. Coaching, indicators, all of it. I don't even need one full hand to name how many people I actually trust in this space, and literally you're at the top of the list." - RK

Word for word.  I have it on video.  And hundreds more testimonials to boot.

#2

I understand every nuance of the income game. People have come to rely on me for realistic expectations and actual processes that make money consistently. 

Do I always make money?  Of course not, but I'm trying to blow as little smoke up people's brokerage statements as possible.

Selling options for consistent income is great. I’ve done it for decades. I’ve run income funds. I’ve managed a billion dollars with these techniques.  But the way these posts frame it is… let’s just say it's generous.  

When someone flashes a clean non-stop monthly return like “3 percent,” they’re likely only showing the income line. They’re not showing the total return line. They’re not showing what happened to the underlying.  And they're making assumptions about the ability of that return to be repeatable 12 months in a row. Big assumptions. But that's what the "Age of Options Guru Grift" is about. 

To be fair it's not always grift, it can be ignorance of how things work.  But we shouldn't expect anything different in a time when everybody and his brother is now an options "expert".  If you want to hire a lawyer who only plays one on YouTube, well.. you get what you get. Want more options theatre from people who've done this for all of six months?  Spend a day on X. Many of them know just enough to get in trouble. Many are very nice. But again... lawyer. I don't present myself as a golf pro just because I occasionally hit a 300 yard drive.

The truth is - you could sell calls every month, collect ten thousand dollars of premium over six months, and still be down money overall because the stock you’re sitting on lost more than the income you collected. That is the part conveniently left out.  Oh wait, it's unrealized losses Hans!  Whatever.  Grift.

OR, a stock drops 5% and then returns to where it started, yet the income strategy lost money.  Huh?  But Hans, the stock didn't move over a two month period and income trades are supposed to work perfectly in that kind of environment, right??  Path dependance my friends.  Path dependance. What did the stock do in that time?  Did you collect $2 and then write calls lower ahead of the bounce?  Underperformance. 

When I ran hundreds of millions in income funds I had to explain path dependance to many.

Now, I am the last person to defend the 'hedgies' who pretty much aren't very good much of the time (they missed this year's rally pretty solidly).  But isolating that options income is apples to oranges to hedge funds reporting total return. Those guys factor in every gain and every loss, every drift in the underlying asset. Premium sellers on social media often report only the income, not the net.

If you want to run an income portfolio like a real business, you have to respect the full picture. Income is one sleeve. Underlying movement is another. Volatility regime matters. Trend matters. Compression matters. Anyone who’s traded for more than five minutes knows that there is no such thing as “risk free monthly yield."

Here’s the truth as someone who’s been in the trenches for his whole career: consistency still wins, but only when it’s paired with structure. Smart income happens when you understand when the wind is at your back and when it’s in your face. Option pricing, sentiment, technicals, money flows, skew, term structure, and so much more are critical to not just making money, but not losing money too often. Success compounds from a strong structure.

Traders who blend structure, timing, and respect for total return survive. They scale. They sleep at night.

That’s the real secret. Not lottery tickets. Not cherry-picked income snapshots. Just disciplined decision making month after month.

This is all why I built the Turbo Trader PRO Income Scanner.  3 decades of in-the-trenches pro market making and income fund management experience distilled into one beautiful point-and-click workflow.  There is nothing else like it on Earth.  Decades of what I've learned, both the science and art of it all. 

Turbo Trader is a rules-based 5 pillars of edge system that:

⚡Uses income trades when markets are wheel-spinning or tired⚡Uses turbo trades when momentum actually supports it (Step on the gas with Strategic Greed)

⚡Says when to sit on your hands (the most underrated position ever!)

⚡Keeps you in good trades for longer (a major pain point no one talks about)

⚡Flips red and cautious when it's time to exit...

⚡Keeps you in the know in areas people are ignoring

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Talk soon,

Hans "Just Turbo It" Albrecht

CEO and Founder

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Turbo Trader 

Gamma Capital Advisors (RIA consulting arm)