OP Insider’s Edge 7.14.26

There are small teams around the country right now, and each one exists to trade exactly one stock.

Not a portfolio. One company. That's the whole job.

They've raised nine figures to do it. And to pull that money in, they pitch investors a payout so large you'd normally walk away from it as a scam.

On a stock that pays no dividend at all, one of these teams promises a 72% dividend, paid weekly.

How they can promise that is where this gets uncomfortable.

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Once you see this corner of the market, you can't unsee it.

Right now there are small teams scattered around the country, and each one exists to trade exactly one stock.

Not a portfolio or sect. Just ONE company.

And that's the entire job.

They've raised serious money to do it. Some of them well into nine figures. And to pull that money in, they make investors a promise that stops you cold the first time you hear it.

Take a team that trades nothing but Coinbase. Buy Coinbase shares yourself and you collect no dividend at all. The company doesn't pay one. But hand your money to this team, and they pitch you a 72% dividend. Paid out weekly. Your capital gains ride on top of that.

Another team trades only Robinhood. Their pitch runs even higher. A dividend north of 100% a year. Also paid weekly.

Read those numbers again, because they should bother you.

A stock that pays its own shareholders nothing. A team that does nothing but trade that one stock. And a payout so large you'd normally back away from it on sight.

To make a promise like that, week after week, and keep making good on it, you'd have to know that one company better than almost anyone alive. Everything there is to legally know about it. And maybe a few things you're not supposed to.

Here's the part that pushed my curiosity into something colder.

These teams file a form with the SEC called an N-Port.

I won't bury you in the mechanics. What matters is what it asks for, and what it doesn't.

They only report their holdings as of the last business day of each month. One snapshot. And those snapshots get filed just once a quarter, on a delay.

So sit with what that leaves room for. A team can move in and out of positions all month long, and the only picture the public ever gets is a single frame taken at month-end, handed over months after the fact.

Every trade they made and unwound before that last day never shows up anywhere.

No running record. Just a tidy month-end photo, filed a quarter late, after the real work is already done and put away.

So I asked myself a simple question. If I were hunting for the people whose trades seem to know something before the rest of us do, where would I start?

I'd start exactly here. Teams that raised a fortune to obsess over one company. That promise payouts that shouldn't be possible. And that only have to show their hand one day a month, months after the fact.

That's precisely where I started.

And when I did, what I found lining up in the data was not what I expected. That's what I'm taking live this Thursday.

I'll show you what I look for, where these signals surface, and how a regular trader can start watching the same thing I watch.

It's free, and there's a live Q&A so you can ask me anything.

Don't let this one slip past you. Click here to save your spot for Thursday.

I'll see you there.

Your Only Option,

Mark Sebastian

 

Mark Sebastian

Mark Sebastian

Mark Sebastian is a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), where he spent years mastering the art of options trading in the most competitive environment imaginable. As Chief Investment Officer at the hedge fund Karman Line Capital, Mark manages sophisticated options strategies for institutional clients. He is the author of two highly regarded books on options trading: ‘The Option Traders Hedge Fund’ and ‘Trading Options for Edge.’ Mark is a frequent guest on major financial networks including CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg, and First Business News, where he provides expert commentary on market volatility and options strategies.

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