Pro Tips · Jun 30, 2026

Position sizing cash-secured puts: survive the red weeks first

Selling cash-secured puts is a game you win by staying solvent through the red weeks. This premium tip lays out the sizing rules that matter most: capping collateral at ••• per underlying, limiting sector concentration to •••, holding a ••• cash buffer for assignments, and measuring risk in delta-adjusted dollars instead of contract count — all applied to a fully worked ••• portfolio example.

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Every put seller eventually meets the week where the whole screen turns red. Five positions drop together, every short put goes in the money at once, and the account that felt comfortably diversified suddenly behaves like one big trade. What separates traders who sail through…

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