This image is what gets posted because I deterred from the order of operations. I was preparing my toilet seat (you DON’T make seat covers out of toilet paper?) for pooping, when my thoughts for rockydennispresents.com went from back burner to … front… um, burner.

I wasn’t certain what kind of image would best represent my journey into sobriety (and really, life itself), the cocaine-like rush of making your first triple digit options trade…. and…damn. I’m getting really far off. I must have started upon work-related thoughts, and the walls went up. I make it a point not to think about work outside of work anymore. I’ve mentally disassociated myself from work to where it isn’t “my job” it’s “a job”, a source of income, a documented proof of employment.

You know what sucks about work? People there don’t want a way out. They act pissed, they live their lives in constant repetition of just making it through the day, just making it to next week. You try to show them there’s a way, a relatively easy way in fact (as in, there’s no manual labor really involved. If you count using a computer as “manual labor” then enjoy your morbidly obese life until your early diabetes death).

Sure, people are naturally skeptical. They’ve been conditioned to believe a certain way, and to be honest it’s for the better. Most people in general are just incurably dumb. But anyway, thanks to having access to a large portion of the stock market, the light at the end of the tunnel gets nearer and nearer.

I’ve only just gotten a taste for only some of what you can do with the market. From nearly guaranteed…no, screw that. People selling you financial info always makes these small disclaimers as if there’s some freaking legal consequence of doing so… You can get guaranteed rates of return on your money. Nothing earth-shattering, but far far more than you’ll get from whatever your bank offers, or what you have access to. For most people that’s paying for free checking accounts. If you don’t know wtf I’m talking about, do yourself a favor and keep it that way.

You can also buy weekly and monthly income. With the powers of study, research, and math you can calculate your risks and gains with a fairly high degree of accuracy, and decide how you want to balance them out. You can do this actively, buy writing covered calls and cash-covered puts, or passively by just having dividend-paying equities and funds. Line up the ex-dividend dates so that you always have one stock with an ex-div date (365 different stocks with $100 in each of them is an idea I’ve had for dividend-chasing.).

Now what stops you from buying a stock, then selling it when the graph spikes sharply up, and rebuying when it drops back down, while profiting the difference in price? Nothing. (Well, PDT if you use Robinhood).

What if you could multiply your gain potential while mitigate your loss potential? Or what if you want to trade stocks you know you can squeeze some earnings out of, but can’t afford but maybe one or two shares? Buy an option on it. Most you can lose is the price to buy.

I’ve only in just a very short amount of time dabbled quite a bit, now it’s time to start figuring out what I like doing the most. Right now I mostly just want to grow that weekly income, $20 at a time…or if I can make a $1650 potential trade for only $37…

But what about my recovery? Well, I make conscious acknowledgements to myself. Those are important, btw, for a lot of things. I have been attending a group session every week/other week, but most of the time I’m really just thinking about the market and things to try and goals to aim for. It’s good for other people to see someone with long term sobriety, though. Especially for those that struggle more than most. Imagine how hopeless it would be if that person didn’t know any other fellow addicts who had it just as bad and managed to recover.