Last Wednesday, a quarter mile from home, I passed two women out walking together.

"Good morning!" I said.

One of them asked how I was doing.

"I’m wonderful," I told her.

"I can tell," she said.

That stopped me. A stranger, at twenty paces, read exactly where my head was. And where my head was, was on the other end of a leash.

Her name is Ivy. She's almost a year old, 45 pounds, and into everything the way a two year old is into everything. She chews whatever she can reach and eats even more of it.

A few weeks ago I walked the garbage to the curb. In the 45 seconds that took, she got a tube of toothpaste off the bathroom counter and started in on it. They told us she'd be 65 pounds. I think we got the runt.

My wife and I waited about a year after Daley before we brought Ivy home. Daley gave us almost 16 years and never once pooped in the house until the very end. Like having a baby, you forget how hard the little ones are until you have another one.

Every morning Ivy and I do three miles. It's supposed to wear her out. It's partially effective.

Do I Beam Like That at 10 A.M.?

So I'm finishing that walk, and my brain goes to Option Pit. I know. Who thinks about work on a dog walk?

But here's the question I asked myself: do I have the same beam at 10 that I have at 7 with Ivy?

Trading is more stressful than walking a puppy. Nobody's arguing that. The answer was still yes, and I can prove it.

Somebody watching my morning show said it out loud, unprompted, on a day I wasn't performing anything.

Here's the proof that doesn't need a screenshot. Andrew Giovinazzi joined me in 2011. Licia Leslie came aboard in 2017. I've been running this company for 16 years and I'm on camera with these people before the bell every trading day, and nobody sticks around that long doing something they hate.

Twenty-Five Years In, Still the Student

You might ask how this is still fun after 25 years of trading and 16 years of Option Pit.

Two answers: You folks, showing up every day. And almost 30 of the best people on the planet to work with, who I'd put against any staff anywhere.

Routine matters. But a routine that isn't fun isn't routine. It's torture.

Here's the part I didn't see coming at this stage of a career: I'm still the one being taught.

For years it was me and Andrew Giovinazzi and a carousel of assistants, and honestly, it was getting tiring. Then in late June of 2017, I met Licia.

The change was immediate. Markets, charting, option knowledge, and most of all a floor trader's sense of fun. When we were both Chicago based we met at the office every day, traded together, told jokes, and split a Diet Dr. Pepper from the 7-11 across the street as our guilty pleasure.

Nine years later, she mentors me on charting and I mentor her on dad jokes.

Six Weeks, and She Trades It With You

You won't get the dad joke mentoring. The charting is only part of what she's doing anyway.

Licia is opening up her whole method for trading 1DTE options (contracts with one day left before they expire, bought in the afternoon and carried overnight) across six weeks of live sessions starting August 17. Not the theory of it. How she actually picks them, and how she gets out.

Then she trades it with you. Up to two live trades a week running alongside the lessons, so the thing you learned on Monday gets used on a real position with real money on it Tuesday.

There's a bonus session on single stock futures on top of that.

She's going live Wednesday to walk through all of it herself. I'd rather you hear it from her than from me.

Tap this link so you see it as it happens.

Your only option,

Mark Sebastian