How to Find and Execute Ideas on Yield and Growth

Every trading day, mid-morning, we publish the trade ideas our screens surfaced — ten strategies, ranked strongest first, written in plain English. This guide is the user's manual for all of it: where the ideas live, how to read an idea card, how to execute at your own broker, and what the social channels are for. If you've ever stared at the homepage wondering where to click first, start here.

Where the ideas live

Scroll to the Daily trade ideas section on the homepage. That is the whole board: one ranked list of the day's trade ideas, refreshed every trading day around mid-morning and sorted strongest first. The filter box above the list narrows it down — by strategy, strength, or minimum score. The Strategy filter picks one of the ten strategies, or leaves it on All Strategies to see every idea in one ranked list; in the combined view, each card is tagged with its strategy.

The ten strategies split three ways. Six cover equities — sell puts, covered calls, put spreads, LEAPS, covered strangles, and the wheel. One covers futures strangles. Three are satellite strategies — ratio spreads, put diagonals, and double calendars — and those are paper for now (more on what that means below).

Two things about the board are deliberate. First, some days a strategy simply has nothing worth showing — we publish that too, and say so. A screen that always has ideas is a screen with no standards. Second, below the board you'll find the 7-day history (what the screens published each day) and the track record — every idea we publish goes into a paper ledger the same day, tracked from its published price to its exit, win or lose.

The ideas are free while we launch. Full trade ideas will eventually move behind a member login; free accounts keep one idea per category, plus one archived idea per day, and the free tools stay free for everyone.

The ten strategies at a glance

• Sell puts — collect premium now, agree to buy 100 shares at the strike if the stock falls there. Getting paid while waiting to buy stocks you already want. Stocks and ETFs.
• Covered calls — sell a call against 100 shares you own; income on top of shares you're holding anyway. Stocks and ETFs.
• Put spreads — sell one put, buy a cheaper put beneath it. Defined risk from the start. Stocks, ETFs, and indexes.
• LEAPS — long-dated calls, a year or more out, for leveraged upside with risk capped at what you paid. The growth half of the program. Stocks and ETFs.
• Covered strangles — own 100 shares, sell a call above and a put below. Two premiums up front. Stocks and ETFs.
• Wheel — sell a put with the follow-through mapped in advance: if assigned, a covered call or covered strangle is already planned. It strings sell puts and covered calls (or strangles) into one ongoing cycle. Stocks and ETFs.
• Futures strangles — sell a put and a call together on the same expiry across equity indices, energy, metals, grains, currencies, and rates. Our income engine. Futures only.
• Ratio spreads (PAPER) — buy one put, sell two cheaper puts on the same expiry for a net credit. Paper ideas for now; real-money entries begin in January. Futures only.
• Put diagonals (PAPER) — buy a one-to-two-month put, sell weekly puts against it, roll every Friday. Paper ideas for now. Futures only.
• Double calendars (PAPER) — sell near-term options, buy the same strikes further out, both sides. Only appears when volatility is low and the term structure is healthy. Paper ideas for now. Futures only.

How to read an idea card

Every card on the board speaks the same language. Here is the translation:

• Expiry — the date the trade ends, with the days remaining. The clock is the seller's friend, so this number does real work.
• Strike — the price level the trade is built around. On a short put, it's the price you'd pay for the shares if assigned.
• Collect — the cash you receive up front for selling the option. It's yours to keep — unless the trade moves against you.
• Breakeven — the line between profit and loss. A $95 put sold for $2 breaks even at $93 — the stock can fall that far and you still don't lose.
• Budget — what the trade ties up: margin for puts and strangles, or the cost of 100 shares for covered calls and covered strangles.
• Cushion — how far the stock can fall before reaching your strike. "8% below today's price" means an 8% drop just gets you to the strike.
• Max risk — the worst case on a spread: the width between the strikes minus the credit collected. Known before you enter, not after.
• Income — the premium expressed as an annualized rate, so a 30-day idea and a 60-day idea can be compared apples to apples.
• Thesis — one sentence on why this idea made the board. The plain-English reason.
• Management plan — the exit before the entry: when we'd take profit, when we'd walk away, and what to watch in between. Winners are harvested at half the premium collected; losers are cut at twice the premium; every position gets its time exit at entry. You see the exit before you ever consider the entry.

What the card deliberately does NOT show

Each card carries a score badge — Strong or Solid — and if you tap it, the score opens up: every ingredient graded in plain words (Strong, Fair, or Weak), strongest first. That part is public. What is not public is the exact recipe — the formula and weights behind the number stay ours. No hype, and no published rulebook — the grades show you what scored well, not how it’s computed.

And the score means less than newcomers assume. It is a 0–100 read on how attractive the setup looked versus everything else screened that day — a ranking tool, not a forecast. An 85 doesn't promise a win and a 72 doesn't promise a loss; it says the 85 was the more attractive setup on the day it was screened. Treat the badge as "worth a closer look," never as a prediction.

What PAPER means

The three satellite strategies — ratio spreads, put diagonals, double calendars — publish paper ideas. That means the setups are real (real strikes, real premiums, real entry logic) but they are tracked on paper, not traded with real money. Real-money entries begin in January.

This is also what the track record section is: a paper ledger. Every published idea — equity, futures, and satellite — is recorded the same day and tracked from its published price to its exit, win or lose. Paper tracking can't guarantee real fills, which is exactly why the satellites stay paper until they've earned real capital: a strategy should prove itself on paper before it gets real capital.

How to execute at your own broker

We don't place trades for you, and the site won't tell you which buttons to click — broker interfaces change constantly, and any click-path we published would go stale within months. The mechanics, though, are the same everywhere:

1. Match the card exactly. Pull up the option chain on the underlying, find the same expiry and the same strike (or strikes, for spreads and strangles). An idea is only the idea on the card — a nearby strike is a different trade.
2. Use limit orders. The Collect figure on the card is a mid-price snapshot, not a promise. Never fire a market order into an options chain; place a limit at or near the mid and let the market come to you. If you can't get filled near the card's premium, the edge you saw may not exist at your fill — walk away.
3. Check the bid-ask spread first. Wide spreads are a tax on every entry and exit. If the spread is a large fraction of the premium, the idea is untradable for you regardless of its score.
4. Confirm the capital. The Budget line tells you what the trade ties up. For cash-secured puts, the cash should actually be sitting there — not theoretical. For futures strangles, your account needs futures approval and the margin the broker requires.
5. Size it so assignment is boring. Before selling any put, ask: if you woke up tomorrow owning 100 shares at this strike, would you shrug? If not, sell a smaller put — or none. Position sizing is the whole game; the premium is just the bait.
6. Paper-trade first. Most brokers offer a paper account. Run a few ideas there before real money — you'll learn more about your own execution (fills, assignment, early-morning surprises) in two weeks of paper trading than in two months of reading.

And read the management plan before you enter: the take-profit level, the walk-away level, and the time exit. Decide your exits when you're calm, not when the position is red.

Where the social channels fit

The website is home base — the screens, the cards, the track record, the Learn Hub. The social channels carry the same ideas in different shapes:

• YouTube — @YieldandGrowth. The longer explainers, walking through concepts on a whiteboard.
• X — @YieldandGrowth1. Short posts: idea highlights, chart snapshots, and notes from the screens.
• Instagram — @yieldandgrowth. Visual cards and short clips from the explainers.
• TikTok — @yieldandgrowth. The shortest cuts — one concept per clip.

Follow wherever you already spend time; the ideas originate on the site either way, and the site always has the full card with the full management plan.

Honest expectations

A few things to carry with you, stated plainly:

• Ideas are starting points, not recommendations. A card tells you what the trade is, what you collect, what you risk, and what has to happen for it to work. It does not know your account size, your tax situation, or your tolerance for waking up owning shares. The diligence is yours.
• Satellite ideas are paper. They are published so you can watch them prove themselves — not so you can trade them with rent money.
• Scores rank; they don't predict. The best-looking setup on a quiet Tuesday can still lose. Diversify, size honestly, and judge any approach over many trades, not one.
• Past screens don't promise future fills. Premiums move with the market; by the time you execute, the Collect figure may have shifted. Re-check the chain before every entry.

Educational content, not financial advice. Options and futures involve substantial risk of loss — including losses greater than your initial investment on some strategies. Do your own research or consult a licensed professional before trading.

The bottom line

Find the ideas on the daily board, read the card in plain words, check what it deliberately doesn't tell you, execute the exact strikes at your own broker with limit orders, and treat every idea as a starting point for your own diligence. The screens do the scanning; the judgment — sizing, timing, and whether a trade belongs in your account at all — stays with you. That's not a disclaimer, it's the design.