InvestingWithBrandon

HOW TO INVEST $1,000,000 RIGHT NOW IN 2026:
(works on any amount though)
$400k $VOO
$400k $Q
$200k individual companies
Sell 1 year puts portfolio secured, not cash secured on companies that meet this criteria:
1. Must be below intrinsic value.
2. Must have a moat.
3. Must have pricing power.
4. Must have a durable competitive advantage.
5. I must be ok to hold for the long run in the event I get assigned shares, I can use the wheel strategy and patiently "get rid" of the shares if I want.
Key Notes:
- Portfolio secured, not cash.
- I keep ratios in check so if I ever get assigned, my base por

🔴Stop making 30+ trades a month.
That's one of the dumbest things you can do.
Why?
Because there is not 30 "table pounders" every month.
Trust me, you will do MUCH better if you simply make plays on ultra high confidence plays only and make bigger bets when they come.
Understand that some months there might only be a few compelling plays, but some months there may be dozens.
Let the market come to you & be patient.
More trades does not equal more money.
It's often the exact opposite.

🔴If you held a gun to my head and said "Brandon, beat the market in the next 10 years or you are dead"
I would say, no problem.
There is a 99% chance I will.
This is exactly how.
First off, "the market" is the SP500.
We will say I have a $1m account to start.
The first thing I would do to beat the market is to simply buy the market.
So I would buy $1m of $VOO (sp500 ETF)
Second, just buying the market via $VOO will actually underperform a tad because of the expense ratio... no prob
So here is the spot that matters to beat it.
In that 10 year period, I would be patient, sitting, & waiting for

🟢Warren Buffett became one of the richest people on earth by compounding at an annual growth rate of 19.9%.
What does this tell you?
Why aren't day/swing traders all billionaires?
Why do we see all of their wins?
Why do we not see their losses?
One word.
CONSISTENCY
Warren compounded at 19.9% since 1965.
Anyone can get great returns in bull markets (like right now)
But most will simply not survive the bad times...
That is what makes investors great.

🔴If you do spreads with stock options, you are making a MAJOR mistake!
Let's take put credit spreads as an example:
1. You sell a put & collect $1,000 in premium.
2. You buy a put & pay $900 in premium
Net credit is $100. Simple.
BUT! Just by looking at that, doesn't it look conflicting to you?
🟢Selling puts = bullish
🔴Buying puts = bearish
If you are bullish, why on earth would you want to buy a put... DUMB. Do you ever see Warren Buffett buy a stock (cause he is bullish) then immediately buy a put under "just is case"
NEVER!
He just bought Google & United Health.
Did they also buy puts "j

Take a hard look at your CAGR in the last 5 years.
If what you are doing does not beat the SP500, please stop.
You are wasting your time.
Just buy the SP and forget about it.
Go do something else in life.

🔴If the investing strategy you are doing doesn't even beat the S&P500, you're wasting your time.
Don't say yours does & send a 3 year ROI.
(thats meaningless)
I care how you did through a bull market & a bear market.
The last 3 years the market has been straight up.
Everyone's a genius.
I care about TRUE ROI.
(not account value going up cause you send money)
I am willing to bet 95%+ of the people that see this post got smoked by the SP500 in the last 5 years.

One thing about me.
I'll remain a student forever.
There’s always something to learn and improve at.
Nobody knows everything.
The people that think they do are the fools.
Always become better.

🟢2 HUGE reasons longer duration option contracts (1+ year) are better than short duration contacts (1 month)
1. The number one thing that moves the price of a stock in the long term is what the EPS does. If you give a company 1 month to "boost EPS" they can't do it. If you give them 1 or 2 years, they likely can. So buying a good company at a good price & giving them time to boost EPS will likely result in a higher share price in 1 or 2 years. (Also why selling longer duration portfolio secured puts is a MAJOR HACK!)
2. I only make bullish plays on undervalued companies. If I make a 1 month p

EPS is the number one thing that moves the price of a stock in the long run.
Not the Fibonacci.
Not the BB.
Not the SMA.
Not the Vwap.
Stop complicating it.
Buy good companies at good prices and be patient.
Let the company boost the EPS with time.
You'll smoke 95%+ of all the "traders"

🔴Selling covered calls is the most popular herd mentality "options strategy" on earth.
Let me explain.
Covered calls means you own the shares, that's what makes it covered.
If you own the shares, you are bullish right?
Hope so!
So what does selling calls actually mean?
Well, you are agreeing to sell your shares at a certain price in a certain timeframe.
Sounds good right?
You get to sell your shares for a profit and collect the premium.
In theory, sure.
But in the real world, there is a MAJOR problem.
CAPPING YOUR UPSIDE!
I can't tell you how many people I have talked to that bought shares ca

🔴After doing hundreds of 1:1s with investors when they joined my training/community, I can confidently say the number 1 thing most people screw up on is literally investing with no system.
(sounds obvious right?)
So many people are just shooting darts at a wall and hoping something sticks.
Reason for buying shares/doing options?
Simply cause the price is going up, or some BS chart said to...
On top of this, they do short duration contracts and it's just pure gambling...
🟢The money is in buying great companies at good prices and using longer duration options to magnify ultra high confidence p

🔴It's now 2026.
For 95%+ of retail investors:
- Day trading still doesn't work.
- Swing trading still doesn't work.
- Cash secured puts still suck.
- Covered calls still suck.
- Spreads still suck.
The problem for retail "investors"?
They will continue to do the same thing & expect a different result.
Me?
- I will continue to build my base portfolio
- Sell portfolio secured puts (not cash secured)
- Buy leap calls when it makes sense
- Keep ratios in check
- Do all 1+ year option contracts
- Continue to capitalize in volatility
- Be patient & outperform 95% of all retail investors in the long

🔴UNPOPULAR OPINION:
1 out of 1,000 day traders are successful.
Yes, there are edge case situations
Yes, there are some 1 hit wonders.
Yes, some got lucky.
But in the long term, most will not make it.
Understand that.
Ask your "mentor" where are their millions?
They prob don't have it.
& if they do, it's likely from what you pay them to be in their discord, not their investments...

🔴I relate day traders to people that are "professional slot machine players"
Yes, there will be an edge case where someone does well for a period of time, but Vegas was not built on winners...
95% of day traders will unfortunately fail.
Short term stock moves are mostly unpredictable.
I simply use them as opportunity to capitalize on longer duration movements.
Patience wins with investing.
People that need instant gratification are often the ones that never scale to 7 figures & beyond.

🔴You can spend an entire lifetime "getting rich" but it only takes 1 bad investment to wipe you out...
Never put yourself in the situation where that can happen.
The market is hard to predict in the short term.
If you're in the game long enough, crazy things out of left field will happen.
Don't complicate it.
Don't over leverage.
Don't follow the herd.
Know what you own & why you own it.