2026 is my 18th year in the markets…
Longer than many… nowhere close to some of our readers.
But whether you’ve been in this game for 18 years or 18 months… chances are you’ve stumbled across a strategy or scheme that just feels too-good-to-be-true.
However, through a combination of curiosity… and good ol’ fashioned greed… you at least feel tempted to check it out.
The best example of this is that for over a decade, some of the most sophisticated investors in the world handed Bernie Madoff their money…
Because he was the guy that could produce returns of up to 95% a year… year after year.
But almost never of his clients asked how he did it.
Because the returns were smooth… consistent… almost never having a drawdown.
And that was the appeal…
Nobody wanted to look too closely at the engine, because the engine kept producing the same beautiful number every single month.
Turned out there was no engine at all.
I think about that story a lot… because it points to something most investors get backwards.
We're trained to chase the number…
Show me the return, and I'll decide if I'm in.
But a return on its own tells you nothing about whether it will happen again.
A mechanism tells you why it happened, and whether the conditions for it still exist.
Take the strategy I teach inside Options Cashflow Accelerator, built around the Wheel.
That's a mechanism you can interrogate…
Try asking those questions about a strategy that only shows you a massive return without the why behind the numbers…
Because most of the time, there's nobody home.
I'd rather show you the engine and let you decide if you trust it, than show you a number and ask you to take it on faith.
Oliver