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Welcome to Barbell on Wheels
Modern markets are noisy, fragile, over-leveraged, and increasingly driven by regime shifts rather than normal cycles. Survival — and asymmetric upside — goes to investors who understand convexity: the ability to absorb disorder and get stronger from it.
I have been asked to share the madness of my methods on a few occasions, and here it is!
This first lesson explains the why behind your entire approach.
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for:
✅ Investors who want to generate consistent income without sacrificing upside
✅ Traders who want to compound optionality using options responsibly
✅ Professionals seeking time-efficient portfolio systems
✅ Builders, founders, and high-agency thinkers attracted to antifragility
✅ Macro thinkers who believe the world is undergoing regime change
✅ Anyone who wants to survive — and benefit from — volatility
It is not for:
❌ gamblers looking for lottery trades
❌ day traders craving adrenaline
❌ people who want certainty, not probability
What You Will Learn in This Course
By the end of Lesson 8, you will be able to:
Understand Convexity & Antifragility
- Identify assets that gain from volatility
- Avoid hidden fragility, leverage traps, and mean-reversion assumptions
Implement the Wheel Strategy
- Sell premium responsibly
- Welcome assignment instead of fearing it
- Monetize sideways markets
Turn Premium Into Optionality
- Systematically fund long-dated OTM LEAP calls
- Build time-based ladders
- Target secular trends, not hype cycles
Engineer That Portfolio Antifragility
- Survive tail events (extend that runway)!!
- Capture explosive upside from macro catalysts
- Avoid capital erosion during chop
Build a Repeatable System
- Understand how rules, dashboards, and personal constraints can help build yourself a unique tailored system.
- Relying on process, not prediction
What You Can Expect From This Course
Across 8 lessons, you’ll get:
📌 Short conceptual pre-reads for each lesson
📌 10 individual lessons to build deep learning and self-awareness
📌 Quizzes to test retention
📌 A capstone trading project (optional) to apply everything, with 1 on 1 guidance
You’ll graduate with:
- A rules-based wheel system to call your own
- A LEAP convexity ladder aligned to your own secular themes
- An intrinsic and intuitive understanding of Convexity and Optionality.
- A personal “Playbook” you will refine over time
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