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I spent seven years in the Wall Street desert testing every strategy I could get my hands on. Indicators, systems and patterns — you name it, I tried it.
Here’s what I learned: Most traders approach this game completely upside down.
They try to take a small amount of money, put it into extremely unlikely trades and target 50%-100% returns if they win. That’s treating the market like a lottery ticket, going all in on low-probability outcomes and hoping it works out.
I did that for years, and it didn’t work.
The Epiphany That Changed Everything
Then I had a shift out there in the desert. It wasn’t about predicting where the market should go next — it was about identifying where it was historically unlikely to trade. That’s a complete reversal from traditional directional thinking.
Instead of guessing what might happen, I focus on probability. I look for price levels that stocks almost never reach and build trades around that edge.
That’s where credit spreads come in. These are defined-risk trades that let you take the other side of those unlikely outcomes, collecting income upfront while protecting yourself with a further-out option.
No heroics, no guessing — just math, structure and discipline.
Why It Works in Any Market
Here’s the part most traders miss: We’re not playing the broad market, and we’re not guessing direction. We’re playing probabilities, one trade at a time, based on what tends to happen most often.
That becomes even more powerful in volatile conditions. When markets are swinging all over the place, trying to nail exact direction is like throwing dice and hoping for a perfect number.
Credit spreads flip that thinking. Instead of betting on one exact outcome, you position around the range of outcomes that typically occur.
How I Apply It in Real Trading
That means even if the overall market is lower, the strategy doesn’t need to change. Whether conditions are volatile or calm, the edge stays the same because it’s built on what stocks rarely do — not what we hope they’ll do.
I might adjust timing to manage risk, like waiting until Wednesday instead of Monday if there’s a major event ahead. But the structure of the trade stays consistent, because the statistical edge is what anchors everything.
At the end of the day, I’m not trying to guess the impossible. I’m leaning on probabilities and using defined-risk trades that pay me to take the other side of what almost never happens.
That’s the shift — and that’s what works.
Talk soon,
JD
The Rational Trader
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