Hans Albrecht

Income Expert

Hans is a veteran options, volatility, and equity fund manager with three decades of professional trading experience. He has worked as a professional options market maker and a portfolio manager, with one of his funds earning a Lipper Award. Hans has directly managed $1 billion in assets and generated over $750 million in options cash flow for investors.

Market Alert

VIX Spikes Above 30: What It Means

Strategy

Best Iron Condor Setups This Week

Education

Earnings Season Volatility Guide

Market Analysis

Fed Rate Decision Analysis

Education

Options Greeks Deep Dive

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Pit Report

Pit Report

Back to Life, Back to Reality

Hey Traders, Wednesday, October 7th, was a lousy day to own a normal stock. The equal-weight S&P 500 closed that day at its worst level

Option Pit Income

Option Pit Income

It’s Not Your Imagination

Hey Income Futurist, Most of the AI buildout talk centers on demand. I don’t worry about demand. Every bit of new capacity gets used. The

Option Pit Income

Option Pit Income

Why Cheaper AI Means Bigger AI Bills

Dear Income Futurist, Say you ask Muse to keep an eye on hotel prices for a trip next spring, then you shut the laptop and

Option Pit Income

Option Pit Income

I Watched This Happen in 1995

Hey Traders, In August 1995, Netscape went public and its stock more than doubled on the first day (I remember the moment well!). Netscape’s Navigator

Option Pit Income

Option Pit Income

Who Collects When Brainpower Turns Cheap?

Hey Traders, Man, we focus on intelligence an awful lot with AI. Every launch comes with a scoreboard, and for two years the whole industry

Pit Report

Pit Report

Nobody Pickets This Part of the AI Trade

Hey Traders, Data centers have a neighbor problem. Local opposition blocked or delayed 45 U.S. data center projects worth about $68 billion between April and

Option Pit Income

Option Pit Income

It’s Not Your Imagination

Hey Traders, If trading’s felt harder than it should lately, you’re not imagining it. The numbers here come from the MTI Brief, the weekly report

Option Pit Income

Option Pit Income

Are Traders Afraid of Making Money?

Hey Income Traders, Stocks are sitting at or near record highs, and the CNN Fear & Greed Index just printed 31, solidly in "Fear," a

Option Pit Income

Option Pit Income

FOPI: Gradually, and then Suddenly

Hey Income Traders, In 2004, the Pentagon's research arm ran a race for cars with nobody behind the wheel. It put 15 vehicles on a

Pit Report

Pit Report

Nobody Stops to Look Anymore

Hey Traders, AI is pulling the market in two directions right now. It's driving a building boom measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, and

Hans is a veteran options, volatility, and equity fund manager with three decades of professional trading experience.

Chief Investment Officer

Karman Line Capital

2015 - Present

Options Market Maker

Chicago Board Options Exchange

1992 - 2010

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