Real income strategies for real investors. No hype — just results.
📞 Covered Calls
●🛡️ Cash-Secured Puts
●📈 LEAPS & Swings
●🎯 Credit Spreads
●✍️ Buy-Writes
●📊 Stock Portfolio
The tool at the center of everything we do at PII. The Market Compass is an all-in-one income investing platform — scanner, scorecard, strategy education, and AI research, built specifically for options income traders.
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Most investors wait and hope — hoping their stocks go up, hoping the market cooperates. Income investors don't wait. They put their portfolio to work generating cash — month after month, regardless of what the market does.
Through options strategies like covered calls and cash-secured puts, you can collect real premium income from your existing positions. It's what institutional traders and smart retail investors have done for decades.
Illustrative example only. Results vary based on portfolio size, market conditions, and strategy execution. Not financial advice.
Each strategy has a specific role in your income portfolio. Learn when to use each one — and how to track every trade.
Own 100 shares of stock? Sell someone the right to buy it at a higher price. You collect the premium upfront — they take the upside risk. Repeat monthly.
Core IncomeSet your price to buy a stock, then sell a put at that strike. If it falls to your price, you buy at a discount. If it doesn't, you keep the premium. Win either way.
Core IncomeLong-dated options (LEAPS) give you stock-like exposure at a fraction of the cost. Use them for directional plays with defined risk and built-in leverage.
GrowthPut spreads, call spreads, iron condors — sell premium with a defined max loss. These are the high-probability, income-generating workhorses of a professional portfolio.
Core IncomeBuy the stock and immediately sell the covered call in one move. Lower your cost basis from day one and start collecting income the moment you enter the position.
Core IncomeThe PII Trading Journal tracks every strategy in one place — P&L, collateral, ROC, win rate, and more. Built for serious income investors.
Get the Journal →Stop tracking trades in your head or on scraps of paper. The PII Trading Journal is a purpose-built spreadsheet for income investors — covering every strategy, calculating every number automatically.
Our flagship analysis platform — scanner, scorecard, education, and AI research in one place. Built for income investors who want data, not guesswork.
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Hi, I'm Mike. I'm not a Wall Street analyst or a hedge fund manager. I'm a self-taught income investor who spent years figuring out how to make options strategies actually work for regular people — not just institutions.
Practical Income Investing is built on one belief: you should be able to generate real, consistent income from your portfolio without gambling, without guesswork, and without needing a finance degree.
Everything I share here is what I actually use. The strategies, the journal, the framework — all built from real trading experience and a lot of trial and error so you don't have to make the same mistakes I did.
Every week I publish new videos breaking down real trades, strategy walkthroughs, and Market Compass tutorials. No actors, no scripted nonsense — just the actual trade, the actual setup, and the actual result.
If you're the kind of person who learns by watching someone actually do it — this channel is for you.
