A BRIEFING FROM BEN · EVERY TRADE HERE WAS POSTED TO MEMBERS, DATED, WITH HOW IT ENDED

One trade. One ticker. Every Thursday at about 3 PM. A small call spread on the strongest of SPY, QQQ, IWM and DIA, with the closing order set the moment you're filled, so it takes its profit without you watching.

Let me open with a question.

What if your whole trading week took about 60 seconds?

No charts to stare at all day. No guessing when to get out. One trade on Thursday afternoon, one closing order set right behind it, and then back to your life.

And what if that one trade had a record you could check, every single week, since January 2, 2025?

Here are the last few, every one of them dated:

• SEP 24 · QQQ $735/$736 call spread at $0.57 — closed itself at $0.71 on Oct 2, +25% in 8 days
• SEP 17 · SPY $762/$763 call spread at $0.62 — closed itself at $0.78 on Oct 15, +26% in 28 days
• SEP 10 · QQQ $709/$710 call spread at $0.62 — closed itself at $0.78 on Oct 15, +26% in 35 days

Look at the shape of those. Same trade, same time, same exit, every week. You put it on Thursday, and the closing order takes the profit while you do something else.

I know that might sound too good to be true. So let me tell you who I am, and then I'll show you one of these, chart by chart.

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Ben, and I run the Product Success team here at Find Better Trades. Our goal is simple: to give retail traders education, tools and services that really work.

Our options team has over 20 years of combined experience in the trenches. And of everything we trade, this is the one I point people to first when they ask for something steady and simple.

Here's what you're going to see in this briefing:

• The one question we ask every Thursday afternoon that picks the market for us.
• Why we sell a call on every trade we buy, and what that does for you.
• The closing order you set once, so the trade gets out at its target without you.
• QQQ, the Nasdaq 100 ETF on September 24, chart by chart.
• Every trade since January 2, 2025: all 90 of them and how each one ended, the ones that didn't work included.

Don't take my word for any of it. Let me walk you through one.

The September 24 trade

September 24, a Thursday. About 3 PM in New York. Here's QQQ, the Nasdaq 100 ETF going into it:

Nothing to forecast, nothing to chase. QQQ was simply the strongest of the four index funds we trade over the last 5 days, so that's the one the rules picked.

A couple of minutes later, this landed in the members' Telegram group and the app:

Layered Options AlertsSep 24 · 2:59 PM ET

Here's today's Layered Option Trade:
Buy to Open OCT 30 QQQ $735 CALL
Sell to Open OCT 30 QQQ $736 CALL

(Combine them into one ticket as a "CALL Vertical")

Pay a Debit of around $0.57 to enter the trade using a Limit order.

AFTER your trade is filled, set a closing order with a Good Till Canceled Limit so that you will automatically exit if it hits the price.

For this trade, set your GTC Limit for: $0.71 CREDIT

Risk per contract: $57 · Most it can make: $43 · If the target hits: +$14 (25%)

That's the whole alert. Buy the $735 call, sell the $736 call, as one ticket. Pay about $0.57. And once you're filled, set a Good-Till-Canceled order to sell it for $0.71.

Then you do nothing. No watching. No deciding. The order is sitting at your broker, waiting.

And then…

The shaded band is the layer: the two strikes. 8 days after it was posted, the closing order filled at $0.71 by itself.

In plain dollars: you paid $57 a contract and it sold for $71. +$14 a contract, +25% on what you put in. Every $1,000 in that spread became about $1,250. And then the next Thursday, you set up the next one.

Why most people lose buying options

Here's the mistake I see every single week.

Most traders buy calls. And buying a call outright is the hard way to make money: you can be right about the direction and still lose, because every day the stock doesn't move, your option is worth a little less. The clock is working against you.

That's why so many people decide options are rigged. They aren't. It's just that the person on the other side of your call is the one collecting that decay. Wall Street loves selling options to retail traders for exactly that reason.

So what if you were on both sides?

That's what every Layered Options trade is. We buy a call and, in the same ticket, sell the next strike up. The call we sell pays for most of the one we buy, and the decay that eats one side is partly paid back on the other. Our risk is set the second we click: the most a trade can ever lose is what we paid for it.

The trade-off is honest: selling that call caps what the trade can make at the $1 between the strikes. We're fine with that. We're not swinging for the fences. We're taking a quarter of what we paid, again and again.

Here's the whole machine, with the September 24 trade's own numbers:

And the market isn't getting any calmer

Headlines move the indexes a percent in a morning now. Anyone trying to time the market week to week is getting whipsawed, and a lot of people I talk to just want something steady on the side, not another lottery ticket.

Here's the part people don't expect: the Thursday trade doesn't need the market to go straight up.

March 5: IWM fell 7.0% below where it was when the trade went on.

Most people would have panicked and sold. The trade didn't need them to. On March 5 the group got the IWM $254/$255 call spread expiring Apr 10, at about $0.57, with the closing order at $0.71. 34 days later it sold there by itself: +$14 a contract, +25% on what was paid.

The idea that makes it work

Here's the insight the whole thing rests on.

You don't need a big move. You need the market a little higher than it was on Thursday, at some point in the next five weeks. And you only need part of that: the closing order takes its profit at a quarter of what you paid, long before the spread is worth its full $1.

That's why we trade the index funds and not single stocks: no earnings surprises, no one company's bad news. And that's why we pick the strongest of the four: we want the one that's already going our way.

One ticker. One trade. The same time every week. We call it stacking layers: a new one every Thursday, each one closing on its own.

The four rules of the Thursday trade

Every trade comes from the same four rules, in the strategy guide inside. No judgment calls, no "feel" for the market:

On September 24 that came out as: QQQ, up the most of the four; the Oct 30 expiration, 36 days out; QQQ was around $741.10, so the $735 call bought and the $736 call sold; and $0.57 × 1.25 put the closing order at $0.71.

More receipts

A few more Thursdays. Every one of these was posted to members on the day, on our own charts.

September 17: the SPY $762/$763 call spread.

On September 17 the group got the SPY $762/$763 call spread expiring Oct 23, at about $0.62, with the closing order at $0.78. 28 days later it sold there by itself: +$16 a contract, +26% on what was paid.

September 10: the QQQ $709/$710 call spread.

On September 10 the group got the QQQ $709/$710 call spread expiring Oct 16, at about $0.62, with the closing order at $0.78. 35 days later it sold there by itself: +$16 a contract, +26% on what was paid.

Still not convinced? Good. Here's every trade.

This is the part most services won't show you. Every Thursday trade posted to the group since January 2, 2025, the winners and the losers, exactly as it is in the members area right now:

Read the red ones too. 15 of the 87 finished trades never reached their target. When that happens the spread can expire and lose what was paid: one loss costs about as much as 4 winners make. That's why we take only the one trade a week the rules pick, and keep every result where you can see it.

Here's one that didn't work: August 13, IWM $303/$304 call spread.

IWM never got far enough above the layer before Sep 18, and the spread was worth $0.00 at the end: −$55 a contract. It happens. The next Thursday there was a new layer.

The last 12 Thursdays:

Past trades, shown as they were posted. Not a promise about the next one. Results use the debit and target as posted; your own fills can differ by a few cents. The first trades' results are the team's own recorded exits; later ones are read from the spread's prices.

This week's trade

The newest layer went out Oct 15: the SPY $770/$771 call spread expiring Nov 20, at about $0.64, closing order at $0.80. Members have it in the group, the app and their members area right now, with how far it has come toward its target.

Why this beats guessing every week

You trade once a week. Thursday, about 3 PM. That is the whole schedule.

You never have to pick the market. The strongest of the four is the one we trade.

You know your risk before you click. The most a trade can lose is what you pay for it.

You don't watch it. The closing order takes the profit for you.

You can do it from your phone. Any broker that takes options spreads.

You can check every trade. All 90 since January 2, 2025 are in your members area, how each one ended included.

What you actually get

1. The Thursday trade, every week WEEKLYAt about 3 PM ET in the Layered Options Alerts Telegram group and the FBT app: the spread, about what to pay, and the closing order's price. And an update when a trade hits its target.
2. Layered Options in your members area NEWEvery trade since January 2025 and how each one ended, your open layers and how far each has come toward its target, this week's trade and the record.
3. The Layered Options Strategy GuideThe beginner's guide to the strategy: how each trade is picked and built, how to place it as one ticket, and how the closing order works.
4. The Quick Start GuideChoosing a broker and getting set up to place spreads, with the broker we recommend.
5. Our customer success teamReal people who answer, through Support in your dashboard. Ask us anything.

The offer

Layered Options is $197, one payment, for life. No monthly charges, no renewal. Every Thursday trade from here on, and the record of every one before it.

The Thursday trade in the Telegram group and the app, every trade since 2025 in your members area, the strategy guide

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What "no thanks" actually costs

Next Thursday at about 3 PM the rules will pick a market, a spread and a target, whether you're on it or not. Either it lands in your group and your app, and your closing order is set a minute later. Or you read about it after it has already closed.

You've lived that second version before.

The questions I'd ask before buying this

When does the trade come?

Every Thursday at about 3 PM New York time, in the Layered Options Alerts Telegram group and the FBT app. Your members area shows it too, with every trade before it.

What do I need?

A brokerage account that lets you trade options spreads (a call vertical). The Quick Start Guide inside walks you through choosing one and getting set up.

How much does one trade take?

One contract costs its debit: about $60 on a recent trade. You choose how many contracts, and you can paper trade it first.

Do I have to watch it?

No. Once your trade is filled you set one Good-Till-Canceled order to sell at the target, and your broker closes it when the price gets there.

What happens when it does not reach the target?

It can expire and lose what you paid. The most any trade can lose is its debit, which you know before you click. Every one of those is on the record too.

Which tickers?

SPY, QQQ, IWM and DIA: the strongest of the four over the last 5 trading days.

Is this an indicator?

No. It is one specific trade a week, with the rules behind it taught in the strategy guide.

Is this a subscription?

No. $197 once, lifetime access. No monthly or yearly charges.

What if it's not for me?

Use Layered Options for 14 days. If it is not for you, ask through Support in your dashboard and you get every penny back. No questions asked.

Two versions of next Thursday

Next Thursday at 3 PM, one of the four index funds will be the strongest of the week, and a $1 call spread above its price will cost about sixty cents.

In one version, you hear about it later. Or you never do, and you spend another week trying to time the market yourself.

In the other version, it was on your phone at 3 PM, you placed it in a minute, set the closing order, and went back to your day.

The rules pick next Thursday's trade either way. The only question is whether you're taking it with us.