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Peter Pru | Option Sellers School
by Peter Pru
My name is Peter Pru aka Peter Prusinowski and I help busy professionals build income focused portfolios through options trading, dividends, and smart investing...without the stress or staring at charts all day. I break down complex strategies like my Ark Options Strategy (cash-secured puts, covered calls, dividends, interest, and appreciation sales) in a simple, no-BS way. My goal? To help you take control of your financial future with strategies that actually work. Whether you’re new to options or looking to refine your approach, you’re in the right place.Sell Options. Collect Premiums. Repeat*Not financial advice, just sharing my thoughts*
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URGENT WARNING: The 4 Silent Mistakes Destroying Your Wheel Strategy Gains
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you are running the Wheel Strategy and think you are safe just because you have had a long string of winning trades, you might be slowly falling into one of the four silent traps that wipe out options accounts overnight. In this video, I expose how subtle mistakes like using margin, holding through earnings, and "premium creep" quietly dismantle the protections built into the Wheel.
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Stop Rolling Covered Calls (Do THIS Instead)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you are constantly rolling your covered calls up and out because you are terrified of losing your shares, you are falling into an emotional trap that forces you to pay the market to keep a trade that has already won. In this video, I expose the hidden math of "net debits" and share the strict, mathematical rule you must use to decide when to roll for a credit and when to ruthlessly let your shares go.
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I STOPPED Learning The Greeks for the Wheel Strategy
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Wall Street and financial advisors deliberately overcomplicate options trading with complex math like Gamma and Vega just to keep you intimidated and reliant on their expensive management fees. In this video, I expose the "complexity trap" and show you the only two numbers you actually need to track to safely generate monthly income using conservative cash-secured puts.
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URGENT WARNING The YieldMax NAV Erosion TRAP
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you are holding high-yield YieldMax funds like $TSLY and celebrating your massive payouts, you are likely falling into a catastrophic liquidation trap where Wall Street is quietly paying you back with your very own principal. In this video, I expose the hidden math behind 100% coverage ratios and NAV erosion, showing you why managing your own partial-coverage options is the only way to protect your core retirement capital.
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The ONLY 2 Leveraged ETFs I'd Wheel (TQQQ & SQQQ Strategy)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Running premium strategies on leveraged funds like $TQQQ and $SQQQ is a massive trap for most investors because daily NAV decay will slowly eat your portfolio alive if you hold them too long. In this video, I expose the exact mathematical rules and aggressive ultra-short timelines you must use if you are going to touch these instruments, drastically cutting your position size to protect your core capital.
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UPGRADE Your Wheel Strategy Returns Instantly (No Additional Risk)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you are only relying on basic covered calls or traditional cash-secured puts, you are leaving massive amounts of premium on the table by letting your capital sit dead between cycles. In this video, I break down the exact mechanics behind a 5-layer income approach that puts your money to work at every single stage of a trade—including collecting collateral interest and stacking dividends—without taking on dangerous leverage.
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The $7.5 Million Cash Secured Put You Never Head Of
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Wall Street wants you to believe options are dangerous, speculative tools so you stay intimidated and keep paying their expensive management fees, but the truth is the most conservative investor alive uses them to acquire assets. In this video, I expose Warren Buffett’s brilliant 1993 Coca-Cola trade and show you exactly how everyday investors can use cash-secured puts to get paid upfront while waiting for a discount on their favorite dividend stocks.
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I'm DUMPING These High-Yield ETFs (The Hidden NAV Bleed)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you are blindly chasing 60% yields in synthetic funds like YieldMax or $TSLY, you are likely falling into a catastrophic NAV erosion trap where Wall Street simply returns your own principal back to you and calls it income. In this video, I expose the hidden math behind 100% coverage ratios and show you why running your own partial-coverage options is the only way to truly protect your retirement capital from slow liquidation.
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Stop Buying SCHD for Income (The 90-Day Waiting TRAP)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you are blindly buying quarterly dividend ETFs like $SCHD without checking the ex-dividend calendar, you are likely falling into a massive 90-day "dead money" trap where your capital sits completely idle. In this video, I expose the hidden math of entry timing and show you how selling a cash-secured put allows you to collect immediate, upfront premium while potentially securing a discounted price on your favorite funds.
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BEST Covered Call ETFs - High Yields and LOW Nav Erosion
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you think holding five different covered call ETFs means your retirement is diversified, you are walking into a massive correlation trap that will crush your monthly income during the next market pullback. In this video, I expose the hidden NAV decay destroying single-stock YieldMax funds and show you how to genuinely protect your downside by rotating into non-correlated assets.
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STOP Wheeling Cheap Under $10 Stocks (What To Do Instead)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Running the Wheel Strategy on cheap, sub-$10 stocks might feel safer for your portfolio, but hidden bid-ask spreads and toxic companies are quietly trapping your retirement capital. In this video, I expose the exact filters needed to avoid dead-end stocks and share the conservative trade ideas that actually protect your downside.
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I am DUMPING $JEPQ for THIS Strategy in 2026!
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you hold $JEPQ or $JEPI in a taxable account, you are likely falling victim to a massive tax trap that is quietly eating away at your hard-earned monthly income. In this video, I break down why JPMorgan just launched $ROCQ to fix this exact problem and expose the hidden fee math you need to understand before making a move. To see how our education company approaches conservative premium collection and to grab my trade log templates, click the link below to watch my free Ark Options Strategy workshop.
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I am DUMPING The Wheel Strategy for THIS in 2026!
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If you are running the traditional Wheel strategy in today's sideways market, you are leaving massive amounts of premium on the table while your cash sits completely idle. In this video, I break down the mechanics of the "Covered Strangle," a highly efficient structure that lets you collect income from both sides of a stock you already want to own.
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The Problem With Monthly Option Expirations (Wheel Strategy)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Most wheel strategy traders running monthly options are unknowingly building a cash flow problem — everything opens together, everything expires together, and income lands in one lump before going silent for weeks. This video covers position sequencing, a framework for staggering entry dates two to three weeks apart so expirations land at different calendar points, income events become regular, and no single bad market day forces multiple simultaneous decisions. It requires no strategy change, no added complexity, and no additional risk — just a deliberate shift in how and when positions are opened.
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SOFI is Up 25% From Its Lows (Heres Are My Next Moves)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators & Watchlist: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/SOFI moved nearly 25 percent in five trading sessions, and while the catalysts behind that move are real, a sharp run changes the covered call math in ways most holders aren't adjusting for. This video breaks down what drove the move — the Big Business Banking launch, the Fed Now integration, and earnings positioning ahead of the April 29th report — and explains exactly how the covered call framework needs to shift when a stock absorbs a major catalyst that quickly. The goal is to help you think clearly about strike selection and expiration timing after volatility, not react to it.
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High Delta vs Low Delta Puts: Which One Actually Works Better For The Wheel Strategy
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Most people running the wheel strategy on monthly options have the same problem — everything opens at once, everything expires at once, and the income arrives in one lump followed by weeks of nothing, which creates a cash flow mismatch that becomes a real problem when you are drawing on that income to fund actual expenses. This video walks through a sequencing framework that staggers position entry dates two to three weeks apart so that expirations land at different points in the month, producing regular income events and distributed decision points without touching a single weekly option or changing anything about the core strategy.
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Why I Never Buy Dividend Stocks at Market Price (And You Shouldn't Either)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Dividend investing has one structural flaw that almost nobody in the community discusses — you have zero control over the price you pay, which means buying a quality business at the wrong valuation and sitting on an unrealized loss while you wait months for a quarterly payment to arrive. This video walks through a framework for using cash-secured puts to enter dividend stocks and dividend ETFs at a preferred price, collect premium income while waiting to see if the market brings the stock to you, and then layer covered call income on top of the dividend once assigned — turning one income stream into three on the same underlying position.
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Wheel Strategy for Retirement Income (Running Covered Calls and Cash Secured Puts)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Most people running the wheel strategy in a retirement account are using the same tickers, the same aggression, and the same strike selection they use everywhere else — and in a retirement account, that approach creates a category of risk that a 30-year-old can absorb but a 50 or 60-year-old simply cannot. This video walks through exactly how the wheel strategy needs to be adjusted for an IRA or Roth IRA, including why broad index exposure through SPY and QQQ is almost always the right underlying, how to select strikes deep enough that assignment is genuinely welcome rather than stressful, and why the covered call phase after a market correction is actually one of the most favorable income environments available.
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The Wheel Strategy Failures Nobody Warns You About
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/The wheel strategy has a near perfect win rate on paper — and yet people still lose money on it consistently, and the reason almost never has anything to do with strike selection or expiration timing. This video breaks down the four specific, predictable failure modes that actually destroy wheel strategy accounts: the wrong underlying, oversizing a single position, the covered call grind on a declining stock, and volatility collapse after entry — and explains why every single one of them has a pre-trade solution, not a mid-trade one.
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The $2500 Wheel Strategy. How To Grow A Small Account Consistently
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Most options content tells you to come back when you have $25,000 — but that advice is both unhelpful and wrong, and this video explains exactly why. This video walks through the specific constraints of running the wheel strategy on a $2500 account, the criteria for finding quality setups within that range, how to manage the covered call phase after assignment, and why capital preservation matters more at this account size than premium collection.
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ULTY Is Legally Stealing Your Money (And You Don't Even Know It)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/If a fund is paying you 70 percent annually and the share price has been declining since launch, you are not collecting income — you are watching your own money get repackaged and handed back to you one month at a time. This video breaks down the exact mechanics of how ULTY extracts value from investors through layered fees, full upside surrender on volatile single stocks, and distributions that consistently outpace what the fund actually earns.
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5 High Yield ETFs Ranked for Retirement Income
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/There is one fund on this list that consistently appears on best income ETF rankings, is widely held for retirement income, and has a structural design that quietly works against long term investors — and this video names it directly. We break down exactly how covered call coverage ratios affect NAV over time, why total return matters far more than headline yield, and how to think about placing these funds across taxable and tax-advantaged accounts.
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NAV Erosion: The Silent Killer of Income ETF Strategies
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/There is a trap inside some of the most popular high yield income ETFs right now, and most investors do not see it until years of damage have already been done. This video breaks down exactly what NAV erosion is, how to identify it using total return instead of headline yield, and how funds like QYLD, QQQI, JEPI, JEPQ, and SCHD each handle the problem differently by design.
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The 4% Rule Has a Flaw Nobody Talks About (What Im Doing Instead)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Most retirement plans are built around hitting a number and hoping the market cooperates — and that single assumption creates a risk most people never see coming until it is too late. This video walks through a three-layer income architecture designed to generate cash flow without requiring you to sell assets, including how passive ETF distributions, an active options layer, and a liquidity backstop each serve a distinct role.
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The SCHD vs DGRO Comparison Nobody Is Doing
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/Most SCHD vs DGRO comparisons pull up a five-year chart and call it a day — but that misses the only question that actually matters. In this video, we break down how each fund is built, what it is genuinely optimized for, and why the right choice depends entirely on what stage of income building you are in.
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A 10% Yield Isn't Always A 10% Yield (Here's What JEPQ and QQQI Investors Are Missing)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down the critical difference between JEPQ and QQQI for income investors — covering why JEPQ's ordinary income tax treatment makes it an ideal Roth IRA holding, why QQQI's Section 1256 sixty-forty tax split and return of capital classification give it a structural advantage in a taxable brokerage account, and why account placement on high-yield income ETFs can change your effective after-tax return by two to three percentage points annually — a gap that compounds into a substantial difference over a decade.
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Deep In The Money Calls vs Buying Stock (What The Content Leaves Out)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down the deep in the money call option strategy that has been spreading through options content recently — covering how the capital efficiency argument actually holds up for high-priced non-dividend-paying growth stocks, and where it breaks down for income investors who would be surrendering dividends, absorbing time value costs, and facing expiration obligations that stock owners never have to deal with.
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The Wheel Strategy Has A 90% Win Rate (Here's The Part Nobody Tells You)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through the four structural risks of the wheel strategy that most options content never addresses — covering why assignment in a declining stock can lock up capital for 10 to 15 months of covered call selling just to break even, why volatility collapse after entry can cut expected income by 40% to 60%, how concentration risk builds quietly through inertia until one macro event hits every position simultaneously, and why the psychology of unrealized loss is responsible for more wheel strategy failures than any mechanical error.
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Assigned On A Put And The Stock Keeps Dropping (Can't Sell Calls)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through the four options available when you are assigned on a cash-secured put and the stock continues to drop below your cost basis — covering at-the-money covered calls for maximum immediate premium, longer duration out-of-the-money calls for recovery participation, repeated short-dated calls for gradual cost basis reduction, and when taking the loss and redeploying into a better setup is actually the most disciplined move you can make.
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The Best High-Yield ETFs To Buy For Monthly Income In 2026 (And How They Work Together)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down exactly how JEPI, JEPQ, and SCHD work together as a three-layer income floor — explaining the specific job each fund does, why JEPI provides consistent monthly cash flow, why JEPQ amplifies that income with higher Nasdaq volatility premium, why SCHD compounds the foundation over time through dividend growth averaging 11% annually, and why understanding what each fund is actually hired to do changes how you size and allocate them in any market environment.
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Why I Will Never Run The Wheel Strategy On A Leveraged ETFs (And Neither Should You)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I explain exactly why running the wheel strategy on leveraged ETFs like TQQQ, SOXL, and SQQQ is one of the most dangerous things a small account options trader can do — covering the mechanics of daily leverage rebalancing, volatility decay, why a 33% Nasdaq decline turned into an 80% TQQQ decline in 2022, and why the wheel strategy's core logic completely breaks down the moment the underlying asset is structurally designed to decay in value over time.
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Why I Stopped Trading Weekly Options (And Why Most People Should Too)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down the real difference between weekly and monthly options for income investors — covering the actual premium math, why the weekly advantage on paper breaks down once you factor in gamma risk near expiration, wider bid-ask spreads, and the hidden operational cost of making four expiration decisions per month instead of one, and why the Ark Strategy runs primarily 30 to 45 DTE monthly cycles specifically because consistency over years beats theoretical optimization in any single cycle.
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Vanguard Just Split 5 ETFs. Why Vanguard Just Made Buying These ETFs Even Easier.
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down Vanguard's announcement of forward share splits on five major ETFs — VUG, MGK, VOOG, VO, and VGT — effective April 21st 2026, explaining why a share split changes absolutely nothing about the value of what you own but changes everything about which options strategies are now accessible at what capital levels, with VGT's eight-for-one split being the most significant for income investors and option sellers running covered calls and cash-secured puts on ETFs.
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JEPI vs SPYI: The Honest Truth Nobody Is Talking About
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down the real difference between JEPI and SPYI — two covered call ETFs that look identical on the surface but are built completely differently underneath — covering construction methodology, income consistency across different market cycles including 2022, downside behavior during sell-offs, tax treatment in taxable versus tax-advantaged accounts, and why in the current 2026 environment JEPI's active quality filter is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
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SOFI Is Down 50% From Its Highs (Here Are My Next Moves)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through my honest assessment of SoFi after getting assigned on my puts above the current market price — covering the Muddy Waters short report, Steve Eisman's public warning about securitization risk, the bull case including nearly 40% revenue growth and $3.6 billion in new institutional loan platform commitments, and exactly how I am managing my assigned position using covered calls to reduce cost basis while the accounting allegations remain unresolved.
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Dividends Are NOT A Retirement Strategy (Here's What They Actually Are)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down the real role dividends should play in a systematic income strategy — why the dividend versus total return debate misses the most important question entirely, why a 9% yield is almost always a warning sign rather than an opportunity, and how I use dividends as the passive income floor while layering cash-secured puts and covered calls on top to generate the kind of total income picture that dividends alone can never deliver.
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Every Oil Crisis Ends The Same Way. And Most Investors Get Hurt Twice.
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down the consistent pattern that plays out during every major oil crisis over the past 50 years — why investors make the same mistakes every single time, why indiscriminate macro fear creates genuine opportunity for disciplined option sellers, and the exact framework I use to identify quality businesses that have been oversold for the wrong reasons and run the wheel strategy on them during elevated volatility environments.
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SCHD Just Cut Their Dividend (Truth Behind The Q1 Announcement)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down SCHD's Q1 2026 dividend announcement — why the quarter over quarter drop is completely normal and how to read the year over year number correctly — and more importantly explain the structural reason SCHD has outperformed the S&P 500 by nearly 16 percentage points in 2026, including how its reconstitution methodology essentially functions as a systematic value investing process that continuously rotates into beaten down quality names
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SCHD's 2026 Reconstitution Changed Everything. Here's My Honest Take.
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down SCHD's 2026 annual reconstitution from an option seller's perspective — covering the 25 new additions, the 22 names removed, the sector weight shifts, and how the fund's beta increase from 0.61 to 0.68 actually creates better covered call premium opportunities for income investors running the wheel strategy on top of their SCHD position.
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I'm Building 6 Income Streams For Retirement. Here's Exactly How.
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through the exact six income streams I am personally building for retirement — JEPI, JEPQ, SCHD, cash-secured puts, covered calls, and interest on collateral — explaining the three-layer framework behind how they work together, why no single stream is reliable enough to depend on alone, and how layering multiple income sources creates the stability and consistency that a single paycheck or 401k withdrawal never can.
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Take Profit On Your Cash Secured Puts (When To Buy To Close Your Options Positions)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through exactly how I think about buying to close cash secured put positions during a sudden market rally — including when the 50% rule applies, how to evaluate whether to take profit now versus holding for more premium, and why in a market driven by social media posts I prefer taking risk off the table quickly and redeploying capital into new opportunities.
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I Found 4 Stocks On Sale During The Worst Market Of 2026.
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through my top oversold stock setups for this week — including Pepsi, Ford, AbbVie, and 3M — breaking down the RSI levels, key moving averages, and what the cash-secured put trade ideas look like on each one using ArkPicks, while being clear that individual stocks carry significantly more risk than ETFs in the current environment and accumulation of quality ETFs remains my primary focus.
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The Exact ETFs I'm Buying Every Single Week During This Market Crash
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through my complete investment portfolio — every ETF, every asset class, and exactly how I'm deploying capital during this four-week market selloff — including my Roth IRA Vanguard holdings, my self-directed account, SCHD, JEPI, JEPQ, gold, Bitcoin, and individual stocks with covered calls.
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I Let A $35 Billion Fund Pick My Wheel Strategy Stocks. Here's What I Found.
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through my completely free research process for finding quality Wheel Strategy stocks — including how I use the holdings of income ETFs like JEPI and JEPQ as a starting point to identify stocks that professional fund managers are already selling covered calls on, and how I then evaluate those stocks using ArkPicks before adding them to my watchlist.
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The Worst Market Of 2026. Here's What I'm Doing To Survive It.
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down what is happening in the market right now — oil surging to $119, the Fed admitting they're stuck between inflation and recession, and earnings being punished despite beats — and walk through exactly how I'm thinking about positioning my income portfolio in this environment.
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Is SOFI a Fraud? Breaking Down The Muddy Waters Report
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I break down the Muddy Waters short report on SoFi in plain English — covering all five major claims including the alleged hidden debt, the charge-off discrepancy, and why Muddy Waters says the entire business model is designed to enrich management at shareholders' expense.
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The 50% Rule: How I Get Out Of Wheel Strategy Trades Early (Live Example)
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through my 50% rule — the exact guideline I use to decide when to close a cash-secured put early, free up my collateral, and redeploy it into the next opportunity rather than waiting all the way to expiration, using a live American Airlines trade as the example.
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I Lost Money On A Cash Secured Put. Here's How I Got It Back.
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through exactly what I do when I get assigned on a cash-secured put and the stock is trading below my cost basis — including how to calculate your true cost basis, whether to sell covered calls or continue selling puts, and how to think about your next move depending on whether you still believe in the underlying company.
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I Found 5 Oversold Setups This Week. Here's What I'm Watching For The Wheel Strategy
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=pod&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video I walk through 5 stocks currently on my Wheel Strategy watchlist — breaking down the technical setup, why each one caught my attention, and what the potential cash-secured put opportunity looks like from an educational standpoint. This is not financial advice, these are not stock recommendations, and options trading involves substantial risk — this is purely an educational walkthrough of how I evaluate setups using the Ark Strategy criteria. If you want to find setups like these yourself in minutes instead of hours, check out ArkPicks
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How I'd Turn $15,000 Into Cashflow With These 3 Moves
🖥️ Register For A Workshop + Free Calculators: 👉 https://onlypeterpru.com/ark-options-workshop?utm_source=yt&utm_id=social🚨Get Trade Ideas & Market Updates: 👉 https://theweeklywheel.beehiiv.com/In this video, I break down exactly how I would allocate a $15,000 account across three specific moves to start generating consistent monthly cashflow through income ETFs and options strategies. This is for educational purposes only — I'll show you the real numbers, the real risks, and the real process without the hype or income guarantees you see everywhere else.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
My name is Peter Pru aka Peter Prusinowski and I help busy professionals build income focused portfolios through options trading, dividends, and smart investing...without the stress or staring at charts all day. I break down complex strategies like my Ark Options Strategy (cash-secured puts, covered calls, dividends, interest, and appreciation sales) in a simple, no-BS way. My goal? To help you take control of your financial future with strategies that actually work. Whether you’re new to options or looking to refine your approach, you’re in the right place.Sell Options. Collect Premiums. Repeat*Not financial advice, just sharing my thoughts*
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