FREE FROM THE RESILIENT TRADER

The Option Selection Playbook

How we pick the expiry, the strikes and the structure for every trade we publish. Seven steps, one real trade worked start to finish, and a one-page checklist you can run before every options trade. Free, 11 pages.

You will also get The Resilient Trader, one researched trade idea every week: the stock to own and the exact option to trade it with. Unsubscribe in one click.

What is inside

• The payoff sentence: the one line you write before you open a chain, and why it fixes the expiry.

• How to price the entire expiry ladder in cost per day, and the month you only find when the whole ladder is on the page.

• The two one-minute numbers that pick the structure: the straddle test and the skew test.

• Why open interest is a veto and never a reason, and the trap that makes traders buy January every time.

• Sizing for the stop, writing the exit before the entry, and how every one of our ideas is scored in public.

• The Shopify trade from September 10, 2026, worked through all seven steps, and what happened 32 days later.

• The mistake we made for six weeks straight, and the three rules that came out of it.

Every idea we have ever published, including the ones that did not work, is scored on one page at theresilienttrader.com/idea-log. This playbook is the process behind that record.