The highest-level traders all handicap themselves on purpose to make themselves MORE profitable.
Here's how…
We interviewed 10 of our traders.
The most profitable ones all said the same thing, and it’s not what you’d expect:
They keep their options accounts small.
These are people with 7-figure portfolios… trading with just $25–35k.
Why?
Because they don’t need more.
That’s enough to generate returns and then move profits into common stock (if you know how to deploy it effectively).
Rolling profits into common stock allows you to be more patient, allow for drawdowns, and to let your wins ride.
This isn’t just math.
It’s psychology.
Smaller accounts force discipline.
They make drawdowns survivable.
They keep you from getting cocky and blowing up account after account.
Once you’re profitable, the game shifts.
It's less about making money…
And more about not losing it.
As we often say in TFL:
Your primary job isn’t to chase big wins.
It’s to eliminate really bad days.
Because big drawdowns don’t just hit your account...
They wreck your decision-making.
Update since last week. Hit another milestone since joining @TheTradeFlow. Thank you to the guidance of @themissinglinks and @redbadbear. Look forward to where we go for the rest of the year.
Our flow team has been and will continue to be on the look out sneaky last minute flows.
Those last minute flows do not get caught by anyone generic flow scanner. You have to know what to look for. That only comes with experience which is what TFL brings to the table.
This will be an exciting week!
Layers upon layers upon layers of $NVDA today in TFL.
It was only a matter of time for $NVDA to get love again.
Flow was clear as day piling into calls.
@themissinglinks called it out and accounts are straight up multiplying today.
The whole team @TheTradeFlow called for $NVDA to be next to make a break up this morning. Going for the jugular. Have 8 layers of calls the first 7 all grandslams. Sorry @michaeljburry we are running this to 220 by 4/29.
Yesterday @zerohedge dropped $NMAX.
88% short and TFL went hard in it.
NMAXing and chill
Calls up massively and common too.
Floor is buzzing.
Join us if you missed $NMAX, $FRMI, or $FLYYQ cause we did not
If you didn’t have this gamma profile before Tuesday’s open, you missed the roadmap for a 220-point SPX move. Deep negative gamma doesn’t pin price — it accelerates it. Miss the profile, miss the move.
This was the best theme of the week $ORCL $NOW $NET absolutely insane since this we also added $MSFT in size in the 380s and the team bought layers with at 420 target that we finally started taking profits on. Shout out to @sp_traderX and @eliant_capital for the $MSFT call outs. And @GranderTheGreat for $ORCL
I got a DM from someone who just joined…. About GEX .
GEX doesn’t matter much in negative gamma or zero gamma.
In names it does , but SPX not really. Because if you think of what GEX says ( this is where the MM acts in a certain way) in negative gamma it means the complete opposite ( but there is nothing to be the opposite) because there is no strikes that they have to hedge , they have to act in the direction of the move