{"id":19865,"date":"2022-07-05T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/?p=19865"},"modified":"2022-07-05T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:30:14","slug":"from-farm-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/from-farm-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"From Farm to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Jeff Clark.<\/p>\n<p>I was born on a farm in Kansas&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>I retired at 42.<\/p>\n<p>And I used to manage over $200 million for some of California&rsquo;s elite at my former hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did I manage that?<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s simple, really&hellip; I discovered options.<\/p>\n<p>I made my first trade at just 19 years old. It was a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was just beginner&rsquo;s luck&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>But my next sixteen trades were winners too.<\/p>\n<p>Like that, I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>And today, thanks to options, I have a life I could only have dreamed of when I was young.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re like most people, you&rsquo;ve probably heard that options are risky&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>But it&rsquo;s not options that are risky&hellip; it&rsquo;s how you use them. Most traders overleverage their positions hoping to get rich quick.<\/p>\n<p>They put everything they have into just one or two trades&hellip; Then when the trade doesn&rsquo;t work out, they lose everything.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s neither smart nor sustainable. My strategy &ndash; the one that took me from &ldquo;farm to freedom&rdquo; &ndash; is the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>I never put more into any one trade than I&rsquo;m willing to lose. That way, even if I take a loss on a trade, I can sleep soundly at night knowing the market will open the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, the question you might ask is, &ldquo;Jeff, how on Earth am I supposed to grow my wealth trading with small stakes?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Well, after 40 years of professional trading, I&rsquo;ve learned a thing or two. And I happen to know the exact answer to that question.<\/p>\n<p>I call them &ldquo;penny options.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<table bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; margin-bottom:20px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 15px;padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 15px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px; line-height:24px;\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Free Trading Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you checked out Jeff&#8217;s free trading resources on his website? It contains a selection of special reports, training videos, and a full trading glossary to help kickstart your trading career \u2013 at zero cost to you. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> to check it out.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>They can cost as little as $0.03 per contract, so you can put in as little or as much as you&rsquo;d like.<\/p>\n<p>And because the returns they can create are so massive&hellip; they can move the needle on your wealth with even the smallest position sizes. So you never have to risk losing your shirt.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m talking about gains like 815% in 13 days&hellip; 900% in 31 days&hellip; even 941% in just 11 days.<\/p>\n<p><em>Especially<\/em> during markets like we&rsquo;re in now.<\/p>\n<p>So, if your portfolio is hurting lately (like everyone else), these penny options could be the perfect way to recoup some of those losses in just a short amount of time&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>And maybe even end up better off than you were before.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about these &ldquo;penny options,&rdquo; I&rsquo;m holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.jeffclarktrader.com\/?cid=MKT646926&#038;eid=MKT649114&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC146044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special market briefing on Wednesday, July 13 at 8 p.m. ET<\/a>. There, you&rsquo;ll learn how the same strategies I used to retire could help you with your own.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s important to adapt the right strategy in this falling market, so I hope to see you there&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Best regards and good trading,<\/p>\n<table style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/files.jeffclarktrader.com\/global\/signatures\/jeff-clark-signature.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"77\" alt=\"signature\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Jeff Clark<\/p>\n<p><!-- MAILBAG BEGIN --><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Reader Mailbag<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Are you planning to attend my special presentation?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know your thoughts &ndash; and any questions you have &ndash; at <a href=\"mailto:feedback@jeffclarktrader.com\">feedback@jeffclarktrader.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- MAILBAG END --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This can move the needle on your wealth with the smallest position sizes\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[7],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-19865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-jeff-clark"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=19865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}