The Long-Dated Options Playbook

Stay fully invested. Never fear the crash.

A patient, low-maintenance way to use long-dated options on the world's best companies — so you cap your losses at a number you choose, earn income whether the market falls, drifts, or climbs, and finally invest in a way you can hold for years.

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When the market falls — your loss stops here

Who this is for

Does this sound like you?

You're tired of following stock pickers into the fire — herded toward the small, hyped, hot-tip names that are really just risk dressed up as opportunity.
You've been let down by gurus — you tried their time-consuming methods, put in the hours, and still came up short.
You've seen through the newsletter game — nobody renews for "still buy Apple, same as last week," so they push a new, riskier pick every week just to stay in business. That churn is the opposite of how wealth is built: owning great companies for years.
You reached for income through high-yield stocks — high yield, high risk — and watched your principal quietly erode.
You want to build wealth year after year, and never again be at the mercy of a market crash.

If that's you, here's the shift: you don't need to pick winners or chase yield. You own the dominant companies that have grown for years and will keep growing — and you use options to define your risk and your income. No guessing. No praying.

How it works

Fifteen minutes a year. Not fifteen hours a week.

You put a position on, and then you leave it alone — for a year, often longer. The trade does the work. No screens to watch, no charts to babysit, no daily decisions to sweat. You check in a handful of times a year, and that's all it asks of you.

This is the deliberate opposite of day-trading — and even the trade-every-month crowd — because that grind doesn't build wealth for real people. It just burns time and nerves. Patient beats frantic, every single year.

What it gives you

Three things you'll be able to do

Cap your downside at a number you choose

Build your portfolio so that if the market falls 30% — or 50% — your maximum loss is a figure you set in advance. You decide the floor before you ever enter the trade.

Earn income in all three directions

Structure trades where the stock can fall, go sideways, or rise — and you still collect your full intended profit. Income that doesn't depend on the market going up.

Invest in a way you can actually stick with

When your worst case is defined and survivable, you stop panic-selling at the bottom. That discipline is what keeps you invested for years — where wealth actually compounds.

The philosophy

Own the best companies in the world. Then make them safer.

You don't need to hunt for the next hot stock. You own the dominant, best-in-class names you already trust — the Apples, Amazons, and Microsofts of the S&P 500. Do you really need to research Apple to know it's worth owning year after year?

Then you wrap long-dated options around those holdings to define your risk and generate income — making already-strong companies even stronger if the market crashes or a single name stumbles.

It's Buffett's love of great businesses and Lynch's "own what you understand" — combined with options for serious risk control, and serious control over your own behavior.

Stress-free, low-effort, and — the best part — something anyone can do.

The core of it

The entire world of options, distilled to two trades.

There are dozens of options strategies. You don't need them. Inside the playbook I strip it all down to the only two trades I make, again and again.

Trade one · Income

Get paid whether it falls, drifts, or rises

You choose the cushion — the stock can drop 10%, 20%, even 30% — and as long as it holds above the line you set, you still collect the full income from the trade. Down, sideways, or up, you get paid.

Trade two · Asymmetry

Risk a little to make a lot

A small, fixed downside against a much larger upside — and you know both numbers before you enter. Risk a few percent for a gain several times larger if you're right. That asymmetry, repeated patiently, is where the real money is made.

Two trades. That's it. Everything else is noise.

Why now

Asset allocation was the best answer — until options existed.

For decades, the only tool investors had to manage risk was asset allocation: dilute your stocks with bonds and hope the blend softens the fall. If options didn't exist, that really would be the best you could do. But they do exist. So why dilute your returns hoping to cushion a crash, when you can define your risk directly and stay fully invested?

Inside the playbook

What you'll learn

01Options & the covered callThe foundation, and the core income strategy you'll use most.
02Buying the call optionWhen and how to use long calls — and when not to.
03The spreadCash-secured puts, buying puts, vertical spreads, and how it all fits into your portfolio.
04The two trades you'll ever needEverything distilled to the essentials — the part students call "the gold mine."
05Why asset allocation falls shortManaging risk in a world where options exist.

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Who I am

Brandon Bitar

I've invested through every kind of market for more than fifteen years, starting back in the dot-com era. I left medical school at LECOM in my third year to invest full-time — and I built a seven-figure portfolio using these exact strategies.

I'm not a guru, and I don't trade for a living. I invest patiently, on a handful of great companies, with options doing the heavy lifting on risk. Now I teach self-directed investors to do the same.

15+ Years

A full-time investor — through booms, busts, and everything between

$1.5M+

Personal stock portfolio, built on the strategies in this course

$1M+

In real estate, owned free and clear — no debt

LECOM

Left medical school in year three to invest full-time

Options Expert

Long-dated, defined-risk strategies — never speculation

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The Long-Dated Options Playbook

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Why only $47? Not because it's worth little — but because selling courses isn't how I make my living; investing is. This is the front door, not my paycheck. I'd rather put it in the hands of every serious investor who needs it than dress it up and charge guru prices.

Questions

Before you start

Do I need options experience?

No. The playbook starts from the ground up — what options are, how they work — and builds to the full strategy step by step.

Is this day trading?

The opposite. Most positions are opened once and held for a year or longer. There's nothing to watch day to day.

How much time does it take?

Minutes per position, a few times a year. Once a trade is on, it largely takes care of itself.

What happens if the market crashes?

That's the entire point. You define your maximum loss before you enter, so a crash can't take more than the number you chose.

How much money do I need to start?

The strategies scale to a portfolio of nearly any size. The principles are the same whether you're working with five figures or seven.