The Capped-Downside Method · Flagship course

Use options to amplify or insure the stocks you already own, with your downside capped at what you pay.

Twelve short video lessons. The four buying-led strategies. Lifetime tools. A written plan before every click. One calm system, built for stock investors who are new to options.

Founding price

$297 $497

Or 3 payments of $107. Lifetime access. No subscription. 300-day money-back guarantee.

Get the Masterclass · $297

Founding seats are limited to the first 100 students, then the price moves to $497.

You already know stocks. Options still feel like a casino.

You have pieced together free videos. You can almost read a chain. You sort of know what a call is. Then it is time to place a trade, and you freeze, because nobody ever showed you the whole path from "I believe in this company" to "the trade is logged and done."

Most of what people call options education is either pure math, or pure gambling language. Neither one teaches a working investor how to use leverage or insurance on companies they already understand, with a floor under every trade.

This course is that path. One spine. Four tools. Six steps. Run the same way every time. Education only. Nothing here ever suggests a specific action for you to take; your decisions are your own.
The unique mechanism

The Capped-Downside Method

A buying-led way to use options where your maximum loss is the premium, decided before you click.

Leverage

You buy a call. For a small, known cost, you control 100 shares of a company you believe in. If it runs, you capture the move. If you are wrong, the most you lose is what you paid.

Insurance

You buy a put on stock you already own. If the stock drops, the put gains value and softens the blow. If the stock keeps climbing, you only spent the premium.

No margin. No selling naked. No advanced strategies you will never use. Four tools beat most of what the noise is selling. Simplicity is a feature, not a shortcut.

Margin is debt with a leash. A bought option is leverage with a seatbelt. We use the version that has a floor under it, and we build everything on top of that floor.

What you will be able to do

By the end of the Masterclass, you will be able to:

This is education, not a promise about money. You learn the system. What you do with it is yours.

What is inside

Twelve video lessons, roughly six to nine minutes each. About ninety minutes of focused instruction, plus hands-on time in the interactive tools. Watch in order, or jump to the tool you need.

Foundations

1. You Own a Piece of a CompanyWhy conviction comes first, and the one fact that takes the fear out of options: capped downside.

The four core tools

2. Long Calls: Leverage Without MarginControl 100 shares for a fraction of the cost, with your loss capped at the premium.
3. Protective Puts: Insurance for What You OwnPut a hard floor under stock you already hold, the way home insurance works.
4. Covered Calls: Get Paid to HoldThe one selling strategy that is safe for a regular investor, because you own the shares.
5. Bull Call Spreads: Defined-Risk LeverageA long call made cheaper, for when you have a target instead of a moon-shot.

The machinery underneath

6. Reading the Chain and Placing an OrderBuy to open, limit never market, and the total on the ticket that equals your max loss.
7. The Greeks as Risk DialsDelta, gamma, theta, and vega as four plain-English knobs.
8. Time Decay and Implied VolatilityWhy a call can be right on direction and still lose, and how to stop it.
9. Choosing Strikes and ExpirationsThe two dials that decide how every bet behaves.

The operating discipline

10. Position Sizing and Risk ManagementThe rules that make sure no single trade, or bad streak, can ever take you off the board.
11. Exits, Management, and Your Trading PlanThe part almost nobody plans, and the part that actually decides whether you keep your money.
12. Putting It All Together: Conviction to TradeOne repeatable six-step workflow, from belief to logged trade.
Everything you get

The stack that makes $297 feel small

Values below are standalone anchors for the page, not claims about what you will earn.

The 12-lesson video Masterclass (every strategy, the machinery, the discipline)$197
Lifetime access to all five options web apps (Greeks Playground, Payoff Builder, Time Decay Simulator, Covered Call Calculator, Leverage Comparator)$100
Printable workbook + full 7-template trade-plan pack$76
Master Go/No-Go Checklist$19
Tax and Record-Keeping Basics module (education only, not tax advice)$29
Cheat-sheet pack + visual glossary$24
Quiet toolkit library (the remaining PDFs and guides, included, not advertised as separate products)Included

Three named bonuses (faster · easier · better)

Faster

30-Day Beginner Roadmap

A day-by-day path so you do not stall after lesson one. Know exactly what to practice each week.

Easier

Trade-Plan Templates

Live fill-in sheets for thesis, size, max loss, and exit. The plan is six lines. Reuse forever.

Better

Strike Selection Guide

A visual field guide for picking strikes and expirations on purpose, instead of guessing from a wall of numbers.

Total if bought separately$445+

You get all of it for one founding payment of $297. No subscription, ever. Lifetime access.

Who this is for

This is for you if

  • You already buy and sell stocks and want options as the next tool.
  • You want leverage or insurance on companies you believe in.
  • You are skeptical of hype and scared of margin for good reason.
  • You want a calm, complete system without a finance degree.

This is not for you if

  • You want signals, hot tickers, or "get rich by Friday."
  • You want to sell naked options or trade 0DTE as a lifestyle.
  • You want someone to tell you what to buy in your account.

There are none of those here. Four tools beat most of what the noise is selling.

Enroll

Founding price. Real scarcity. Risk on me.

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300-day money-back guarantee. Use the course for a full 300 days. If it does not make options clearer and calmer for you, email for a complete refund. The risk of trying it is on me.

Why the founding price ends

The founding price of $297 is for the first 100 students, or until I publish the end date, whichever comes first. After that the list price is $497. That number is real capacity and early-student pricing, not a countdown that resets.

Prefer personal attention on a large portfolio? See the Private Intensive ($9,767), application only, capped at five clients per month.

Questions, answered plainly

Do I need options experience?

No. The course assumes you know stocks, not options. It starts from the one fact that de-scares options and builds from there.

Will you tell me what to buy?

No. This is education, not advice. Examples (often Tesla, because Ryan owns TSLA) teach mechanics. Nothing ever suggests a specific action for your account. Your decisions stay yours.

Is there margin or naked selling in this course?

No. The whole approach is buying-led. When you buy an option, your loss is capped at the premium. Covered calls are taught only because you own the shares behind them.

How long does it take?

About ninety minutes of video, plus practice time in the free tools. Most people work through it over a weekend or a few evenings. Lifetime access, so go at your pace.

What if it is not for me?

You have 300 days. Use the lessons, the checklists, and the apps. If it does not make options clearer, email for a full refund. No performance claims, no hoops.

Is there a payment plan?

Yes. $297 paid in full, or 3 payments of $107 ($321). The plan costs a little more so the full-pay price stays the clean anchor.

Start with the full system

One course. Four tools. Downside capped before you click.

Founding price $297 (list $497). Lifetime access. 300-day guarantee.

Get the Masterclass · $297