What if you could buy an AI stock at a steep discount — and get paid twice just for making the trade?
Most investors buy stocks at full price and hope they go up. That's one way to participate. But in this episode, I show you a fully closed, realized trade on Arista Networks — where I got paid $49 just to open the position, and then paid again $877 to close it six weeks later.
That's approximately $900 in realized profit. Two paydays. One trade. Real brokerage fills shown in full.
This is not a demo account. This is not a screenshot of a paper trade. This is a verified, closed position — and I'll show you every fill.
What you'll learn in this episode:
✅ Why Arista Networks (ANET) is one of the backbones of the AI infrastructure buildout
✅ Why simply buying shares is the least efficient way to own a great company
✅ The Finance Bull structure — get paid to enter AND participate in the upside
✅ The exact strikes used: $155/$165 call spread + 2x $125 puts sold
✅ Real opening fill: $49 credit received just to open the trade
✅ Real closing fill: $877 credit received when Arista ran up six weeks later
✅ How this trade wins if Arista goes UP, DOWN, or SIDEWAYS
✅ The #1 mistake beginners make that turns this into pure gambling
✅ The fully defined risk version — caps your maximum loss by approximately 68%
✅ Real account proof — March 2026, market down 7-8%, my account down less than 1%
Never traded options before? Here's the whole idea in plain English:
Selling a put means: "I agree to buy Arista Networks at a lower price — and I get paid cash today for agreeing."
It's like placing a buy-on-sale order below today's price, except the market pays YOU to place it.
❌ Buy shares at full price — you only win if the stock goes up
✅ Finance Bull structure — you win if it rises, you get a discount if it drops, you keep the credit if it goes nowhere
And in this case, when Arista ran higher over six weeks, I closed the whole position for an additional $877 credit on top of the $49 I already collected.
Two paydays. Fully realized. Zero prediction required.
The honest risk — no hype:
If Arista craters far below the $125 put strike, I get assigned above the market price. That's the real loss scenario. That's exactly why I only sell puts on companies I'd be happy to hold for years — and only at prices where I'd be thrilled to own them.
No trade is risk-free. This one just pays me to take a risk I already wanted to take.
The defined risk version:
Nervous about naked puts? No problem.
Instead of selling the naked $125 put, sell the $140 put and buy the $100 put. This caps your maximum downside at $40 per share — compared to $125 per share with the naked put. That's approximately a 68% reduction in maximum risk, while keeping the full call spread structure intact.
The real account behind these trades:
In March 2026, when the broader market dropped 7-8%, this account was down less than 1%. When the market rebounded in April and May, this account participated in the upside. Real. Verified. Not hype.
Who is telling you this?
I'm David Jaffee — former Wall Street investment banker (Morgan Stanley), Ivy League graduate, 10+ years of verified options trading experience. Every trade I show is from a real, verified brokerage account. Real fills. Real credits. No demos. No fabricated results.
These are the exact trades I send my members in real time — and you can get them too.
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