1400% Return From One Options Trade

16 May 2026 · 11 min · 4 chapters

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In short

The episode is about an options-trading “stacking” strategy using long-dated call options on Micron (MU) and short-term call trades on another stock (Sandus). The guest (Mike) shows portfolio screenshots claiming MU options returns of 1400% (Jan 15, 2027), 355% (same date), and 67% (Dec 17, 2027), calling it a “triple crown/hat trick” or “4321.” He argues MU is fundamentally sound (AI memory infrastructure demand) and that drops after earnings were due to Wall Street speculation, not business weakness.

Notable examples

waiting through a ~30% drop to reach ~60% gains in two months; “stacking” by repeatedly adding calls at pullbacks; leverage via shares up ~320% plus long-term calls.

Guest background

Mike is an options trader and discusses prior “options class” content (E-Trade/EYO University, Market Mondays) and financial-advisor-style return expectations (rule of 72).

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Chapters

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Discussing Recent Options Trades

1:30 to 3:20

Exploring a significant options call and associated trades.

“courage to think boldly beyond the moment.”

Understanding Stock Performance

3:20 to 6:40

Analyzing the performance of Micron and the importance of patience in trading.

“You see those are actually the same dates, January 15th, 2027.”

Investment Strategies Explained

6:40 to 10:00

Discussion on effective investment strategies and historical returns.

“And when you really look and when you really think about it, 60 % for two months.”

The Power of Stacking Options

10:00 to 12:20

Insights on stacking options and leveraging trades for maximum gain.

“Mike, if you could pull up the next slide real quick, because I think this is important too, because when we talk about stacking, some people might not understand what that is.”
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2:14Healthcare just got less painful. Can we talk about this options call that recently did? You had an options call? I did. Tell me more about it. so micron mu i'm sure everybody's familiar with mu now we talked about mu so much but um i remember troy had talked about mu last year in his in his options class in eyo university and always watch i always watch the options eyo university class he talked about it on market mondays so that was the first mu option that i that i purchased then a few months down the line purchased another mu option and then two months ago i purchased the mu option so can we show the screenshot, Mike, if we can.

2:58All right. So this is a screenshot from my portfolio. So can we, can we just give a fire in a chat for your green jacket? Can we do that? Green jacket. Oh, that's why you order green a day. See, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. So, so the 1400%, that's the, that's the first one. And obviously the second one is 355%. You see those are actually the same dates, January 15th, 2027. And then I went further out and got the December 17th, 2027. And that one is up 67%. So before we take this down, just want everybody to just take a mental screenshot. So it's 1400%. It's 355%. And then it's 67%. Okay, Mike, you You can bring us back up now.

3:54So that, you know, I like to call that the triple crown. Hat trick. You can also call it the hat trick. You can also call it the 4321. Shout out to MG. He did the 4321 with real estate. But the reason why I say 4321 is because it's four digits, 1 ,400%. Three digits, 355%. Two digits, 67%. And the one digit stands for the one company. It's consistent across one company. It's also called stacking. Troy will probably talk about that a little bit, but okay. Why do I talk about this? It's important to stay around positive people. And it's important to listen to, you're never going to make money from being negative.

4:38Now, the last one, the last one was the most important one to me because that one I'm up 67%. So somebody would say, well, why is those 67 % more important than the 1400 %? Because it speaks to a certain level of adversity. When I purchased it, and the reason why I did purchase it is because MU, you know, they blew out their earnings. And I think it had dropped. Long story short, and I purchased it because I'm like, I already dropped. But then shortly after I purchased it, it dropped again. pretty drastically, actually. But, I mean, if you look at MU's last earnings report, it's pretty historic as far as their numbers.

5:23They did crazy numbers. It didn't drop for... This is becoming a pattern. It didn't drop because they underperformed. They overperformed. It dropped because Wall Street speculation, people had already made so much money and they've been doing that all the time now. Yeah, we're taking profit.

5:46And, you know, you judge a man by, you don't judge a man by times of triumph. You judge a man during times of adversity. And during a moment, what would seem to be adversity, some people chose to throw rocks at said throne. Disrespectful views. Disrespectful views. Yes, they did. Disrespectful abuse. Yes, they did. And there's nothing wrong with criticism, right? Absolutely not. Critique is a better word. I would prefer critique. Was down. Was down 30. Now we up 60. So the reason why is because, look, we waited it out. Didn't panic. I didn't sell. I didn't let outside distractions come into play.

6:39We waited it out. Well, we did, man. We stayed low. And when you really look and when you really think about it, 60 % for two months. It's amazing. Within itself. For any. Like I said, when I was a financial advisor, we had the rule of 72. And the goal was to get your clients 7.2 % a year on their money for 10 years. Because if you get 7.2 % on your money for 10 years, like every year for 10 years, then you double your money. So the goal was to try to double people's money in a 10-year time frame, by the way. and this was established this was like standard, this was industry standard this was a law, yeah pretty much yeah, so I don't think people don't fully, sometimes I don't think especially if you're new, you might not have a full understanding of historical rates of return expectations sometimes people's expectations are not realistic, like they don't fully understand, like just 67 % in two months, that's unbelievable within itself

7:42355%, 1400%. Now you start to go into the life-changing category. But it's a message. It's a message because the company is a good company. Memory is a core component to the AI infrastructure space. They have the demand for their technology is through the roof. It's not slowing down. it's fundamentally sound it's not GameStop, it's fundamentally sound I mean everything, you know, check the box so the option strategy, you know, the leaps it's long term be doing close to the money strong companies, you know all of these things to kind of put yourself in a position to win right, so with that being said

8:35God is the greatest. God is the greatest. Of all time. God is the greatest. I will say this. I'm proud. I said this last week and I'll reiterate it that nothing makes me more proud than watching the family win. And so watching his games is, I mean, it's an incredible feeling for me to know that, number one, and I said this, people always ask, well, how do you use your dynamic work? And I'm like, I'm going to let him be great at something. He's going to let me be great at something. And when we come together, we all are great. And so spending time in front of the charts reading, he trusts me to do that, right?

9:13Just like the community trusts me to do that. Y 'all come here watching and trust me to do that. So I'm super diligent about what we're talking about. So Micron, again, that's not even a company that should be coming as a surprise. We've been talking about it for two years when it was$87. And so to watch what it's doing now and hear a critique about a company that, you know, we've explained the story, we understand the story. We left the part out where I got the phone call when it dipped down, I'm like, look, has the story changed? Like, bro, has the story changed? No, it hasn't changed. In fact, every time we end the show, I'll get like, hey, where do you think this thing's going?

9:49I told him when I said, I think this is going to 400. Ran past 400. Yeah, look, Shadi, I really think we're going to 500. I came on here two weeks after that. I told him. Yeah, it's a six year. And so the story hasn't changed. The man hasn't changed. That's only going to increase. Mike, if you could pull up the next slide real quick, because I think this is important too, because when we talk about stacking, some people might not understand what that is. And so there's a jean jacket here, but we've had 1 ,000 % returns probably two or three times already with Micron on this run. Like I said, we were in the 110 call, 130 call.

10:26As you can see here, as it's run up, right, number one, that first line, so if you're in E-Trade, like that first line that's white, that's me owning shares. And so my shares, I think I got like 500 shares. Those shares are up 320%. So when we're talking about foundation, this is not just the, like theoretical things or hypothetical things. This is literally the portfolio. And if you're in EYLU, y 'all have seen this portfolio. This is not anything that's new to y 'all. So you can see like before it was 230, it was 175. All right, let's grab the 230 out to 26. We did that. All right, we still think this thing is going.

11:00All right, we're going to grab a 250 out to 27. All right. It's still going. We're going to grab the 360 out to 27 December. And as we're seeing it pull back, we're going to grab some more. We're going to grab some more. And so that is literally what a stack looks like. We have the leverage of having the shares up 320%. We already have a long-term one out to 2027, right? December, you can see it down there, the 360. Now, can we make some gains in between? And obviously you can see that's what's happening here. Mike, give me the next one too, because it's not just Mike on. All right, so here's Sanders.

11:35When we talk about leverage, we spoke about it last Monday. Now, I said, either way, you're going to be fine, right? We had those contracts that were expiring at the end of the week. I know you sold yours Thursday, yeah? You sold yours Thursday. I said, I'm going to hold to the end. And I did. And true to what we're saying, if you watch the earnings report, it blew out all its earnings on every metric. and we watched it climb down$60. Over-delivered. By the time the market opened, we would back up. By the time we closed, we were up$97. And so that call was, I think, 140 % when I sold it. But look, I still got the one that's going out to this Friday, right?

12:11That was at 69 % on Thursday, and now we're at 222 % going into Friday. I might let this one go already. We've already hit our 100 % mark. We took out our initial investment. These are just all runners. like all these are runners and as you can see when we're talking about stacking look at that top one that's out to january of 2028 we are sitting here in may of 2026 that's a 230 call if i showed you how much each one of those calls will go for right now it'll change your mind change your life you'll be in shock you'll be in shock i should have put that in here but this is what we're talking about of having leverage right i'm out to 2028 already.

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