Wealth Systems

Wealth Systems

Upgrading Your Options Machine

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Matt McDonagh
Jan 03, 2026
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Wealth is a war.

The Wheel Strategy is the infantry.

It is dependable. It is rugged. It occupies territory. If you followed the previous directive, you have deployed it. You are selling puts. You are taking assignment. You are selling calls. You are grinding out yield.

But there is a problem. Look at your deployment. Look at your reserves. The Wheel is capital intensive. It is heavy. It is slow.

To secure a single perimeter aka to sell one put on a high-value ticker, you must lock away thousands of dollars of cash. That cash is dead weight. It sits in your account, doing nothing, waiting for a breach that may never come. In the modern economy, stagnant capital is not safety. It is a liability.

While your cash sits in the trenches securing a tidy annualized return, the market is moving at light speed. You are winning the skirmish, but you are losing the war for Return on Equity (ROE).

You must become obsessed with return on equity, you must think about the velocity of your money and the risk…

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