From the Desk of Mark Sebastian...
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I was standing close enough to hear every word.
The broker hung up the phone... laughed... and called the man on the other end stupid.
Then he bragged about the commission he'd just pocketed. For rebalancing a portfolio that had lost the man money.
That was someone's life savings. Decades of work. A retirement. Maybe a kid's tuition.
To him? A punchline.
I'm Mark Sebastian. More than 20 years on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. And that one phone call is the exact reason I am not a financial advisor.
That broker is probably still at it. Still laughing. Still collecting his fee whether his clients win or lose.
And before you tell me he was one bad apple... look at the scoreboard.
S&P Dow Jones keeps one. Over the 15 years through December 2025, almost 90% of actively managed large-cap stock funds failed to beat the S&P 500. Stretch it to 20 years and it's nearly 93%.
Nine. In. Ten.
That 1% fee they charge you for the privilege? Run the SEC's own example and a $100,000 account finishes 20 years about $30,000 behind the same account in a low-cost fund. Same market. Same two decades. Thirty grand, gone to fees.
Read that again. You're paying them... to lose to the market.
And that's in a market that's mostly been calm. Right now it isn't. Chip names and rate headlines are throwing single stocks around overnight, exactly the kind of dislocation a five-person argument over ten live setups is built to catch. An index fund can't tell the difference between noise and a trap. We can.
My friends and I got tired of watching it happen.
But here's what that broker is counting on you never finding out.
Spend 20 years on a trading floor and you stop seeing the market the way everyone else does. You start seeing the strings.
You learn to feel it when the big money is setting a trap.
You watch a giant fund leak an ugly headline, watch the stock get dumped in the panic... then realize they only put it out so they could quietly buy the other side of it.
I didn't read about that in a book. I watched it for 20 years, on the floor, with my own eyes.
I know exactly how it works. And I know how to spot it coming.
Here's the part that should make you feel good.
I'm not the only one.
Floor traders. Market makers. The people who used to sit on the other side of your trades. Between us, more than a century in the market and over $1 billion in institutional options managed.
We're not just fed up with the racket. We know how to fight it, and we know how to spot the trap before it springs. Each of us reads a different part of the market, the part most people never even see.

Mark Sebastian
20+ years, CBOE floor
I handle the pricing and read the institutional and investor order flow, the footprints most traders never see.

Licia Leslie
Floor trader and analyst
She reads the charts: support, resistance, and where price actually wants to go.

Andrew Giovinazzi
Former CBOE market maker
He scopes the volatility, whether the options are cheap or rich for the move we expect.

Hans Albrecht
Ran $1B+ in institutional options
He reads the momentum, whether a move is speeding up or breaking down.

Tim Colby
15 yrs on the floor, no losing years
He checks the plumbing, whether market flow and mechanics favor the trade right now.
Together, we take everything we learned standing across from regular people and use it to help them even the odds against the scumbags on Wall Street instead.
Sixty closed trades since May 2025. And I'll give you the honest yardstick first.
The S&P 500 returned about 36% over that stretch. Goldman puts this rally in the top 10% of all bull markets since 1928 at this point in the cycle. It has been a great year and a half to own an index fund, and I'm not going to stand here and pretend otherwise.
A hypothetical $10,000 in the S&P since May 8, 2025 would be worth $13,612 today, as of Thursday's close.
Now picture that same $10,000 running through our trades instead, using a simple rule: 10% of the account goes into every new trade, and that balance only updates once a trade closes, not the moment a new one opens. That means if two trades overlap, the second one still gets sized the same way, since it doesn't grow or shrink just because the first trade is still open. And a loss can never cost more than the 10% you put into it. Here's where that money would land today.
$34,565.97.
About two and a half times what the same $10,000 would have done in the index, over the same 15 months. A hypothetical. Not a promise, not a projection, not what's coming next.
And that number carries every loser. Nothing was left out to make it look better.
Here's the record it came from:
That 25% average is every trade added up and divided, winners and losers together.
On average, it takes less than two of our trades — call it two weeks — to match what the S&P did in 15 months. That's what the record says. It isn't a forecast.
How we ran the $34,565.97 number above: a hypothetical $10,000 account, risking 10% of its current balance on every new trade, with that balance updating only when a trade closes (not when a new one opens). Full math available on request.
That's the system, not a hot streak. A few of the recent winners:




And no, we're not perfect. Close to 3 in 10 don't work. That's what buying options means.
You don't have to take my word for it. All 60 are posted on our site.
“XOM, up 105%. The closeout alert hit at the perfect time. I didn't have to guess.”
Mike T., memberHow does one trade like that come together? Come sit in and watch because...
We call it the Ticker Highlight Show.
Live, 10:30 a.m. ET, about 20 minutes. Each of us puts up two names, one we love and one we can't stand. That's 10 setups on the table.
Then we argue and cut those 10 down to the single trade with the best shot at paying off.
Here's how a recent trade flowed...
MarkApple's my hate. 37 P/E and the institutional flow is heading for the exits. Amazon's my love, the call flow's bullish and the options are still cheap.
HansMy love is the cloud name. $18 billion deal, momentum accelerating while everyone chases hype.
AndrewCareful, the vol on that cloud name is rich. You'd overpay for the move. That one's my hate.
TimRates are calming, the tape's risk-on. The mechanics give a long trade room to run this week.
LiciaApple? No. Amazon? Close. NBIS. Inverted hammer at support, RSI curling off 30. Cleanest chart on the board.
We argue the entry.
I price the options.
And one trade falls out: Nebius, the 90 calls, for less than $6.50.
Minutes later it goes out as one email.
That trade ran 50% in a day.
Buy to open a Nebius (NBIS) 90 call for no more than $6.50 per contract.
Entry, target, and a stop. Every time. No spreads. No shorting. If you can open an email and place an order, you can follow along. Then we watch it for you and tell you when to get out.
“That IBM trade from yesterday is doing great. Thanks Mark and Andrew.”
Carey, memberHere's the good news.
You can join us this Monday at 10:30 a.m. ET. In the room with us, live, as we build the next play and send it out in real time. That's what being a Ticker Highlight Show member gets you.
And here's the best part: I'm about to make that choice close to impossible to turn down. I'll get to the how in a minute.
But first, take a look at...
The five of us go live at 10:30 a.m. ET for about 20 minutes. We put all 10 calls on the table, the five we love and the five we hate, then argue them down to one trade. Ten ideas. One verdict. And you hear every word of the reasoning.
You hear it live and it hits your inbox: entry, target, stop. Place it in five minutes. The moment we decide it's time to get out, the closeout email lands. No more wondering whether to hold out for more.
Every week, an email on where each open position stands. No app to check. No texts buzzing your pocket. Just the update, when it matters.
Sit in with people who show up every Monday like you do. We drop in to answer questions and talk through trades. No judgment. No stupid questions.
Never placed an options trade? A short video course walks you from what a call is to placing your first order and knowing when to get out.
The full archive comes with your login. Every show we've recorded, every alert we've sent. Yours to study from day one.
Real positions from recent winners, the kind that hit your inbox on a Monday. What a $1,000 stake could have turned into, from the last three closed trades alone:
Picture it. Five minutes Monday morning and the trade is placed. You go live your day. We watch the position for you, and when it's time to get out, the closeout email lands telling you exactly what to do.
No charts to stare at. No guessing. That's the difference between watching the game... and being in it.
“Sold half my TSLA for 110% at $7.20. Holding the rest.”
Tedd, memberGood options services aren't cheap. The other ones we run go for $1,000 to $3,000, and they earn it.
So I won't oversell this one. Subscribe here and you're getting the single trade the five of us agree on, every Monday.
Here's the truth, though. The deck's been stacked against regular folks for too long. Plenty of people want in and just can't put down a few thousand dollars to find out whether something works.
I want to make this easy for you.
Maybe you already know us. Maybe you've never heard my name. Either way, the burden's on me to show you this works, not on you to take it on faith.
That's why I'm letting you name the price.
It normally runs $49 a month. Right now, you set your own number, and you keep it for the life of your subscription. This isn't a first-month trick. Name a dollar, and it's a dollar a month for as long as you stay. You still get all of it: the live show, every alert, the chat room, the course.
Most people land around $15 a month. Some choose to pay quite a bit more, and once you see the trades roll in, you'll understand why.
Here's why I'm doing it this way.
I want to give you an easy way to see exactly what we do, how well it works, and whether it can help your account, without asking you to gamble a few thousand dollars to find out. My hope is simple. Once we prove ourselves to you, you'll see the value in stepping up to one of our other services down the road.
Because options trading shouldn't just be for the monied elite. Everyone deserves a shot at trading options in a way that can grow even the smallest account. That's the whole point of this.
So here's the choice. Keep handing someone 1% a year to trail the market, the same game that broker was playing when he laughed at his client. Or sit on our side of it, one trade at a time, starting this Monday.
Same trades, same 15 months: a $10,000 account like the one above would be sitting at $34,565.97 right now.
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Name your monthly price and lock it for the life of your subscription, not just month one. You get the full service no matter what you pay: the live show, every alert, the chat room, and the course. Cancel anytime, no forms and no phone calls.
The next pick goes live Monday at 10:30 a.m. ET.
Follow the Monday picks. Get the closeout alerts. Use the course. Sit in the chat room.
If it isn't for you, for any reason, tell us within 14 days and we'll make it right. Everything you've already received is yours to keep.
You name the price. You keep what you get. You can walk anytime. That part is on us. What the market does with your money is not, and anyone who tells you different is selling something worse than this.
One trade. Every Monday. From five floor traders who show you exactly what they're doing, and why. Name your price, lock it, and get this Monday's trade.
P.S. Whatever price you name is the price you keep, for as long as you stay a member. Skip Monday and you're not just waiting a week — you're skipping the kind of pick that's gone 5-for-6 lately, including a trade that turned $1,000 into $1,940 in under a day. Name your price before Monday and you're in the room for the next one.