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Master Cheat Sheets

27 · Master Cheat Sheets

The quick-reference division of the guide. Every other section explains why the method trades the way it does; this folder strips that reasoning down to the numbers, checklists, and decision rules you actually reach for at the moment of placing or managing a trade. Think of it as the laminated card taped next to the monitor — dense, scannable, and deliberately opinionated toward the "house" mechanics.

Nothing here is new. These sheets are condensations of the fully sourced material elsewhere in the guide, above all the citation layer in 18_research_findings and the workflow detail in 05_trade_management, 20_position_sizing, and 21_trade_adjustments. When a number on a cheat sheet matters to you, follow it back to its finding file — that is where the backtest, the evidence grade, and the caveats live. A cheat sheet is a summary; the finding is the receipt.

The four canonical defaults that thread through all of these sheets: sell premium in high IV Rank (>50), enter near ~45 DTE, place short strikes near ~16 delta / 1 standard deviation, and manage winners at ~50% of max profit (with the ~21-DTE time stop and the ~25% straddle/iron-butterfly variant as the main exceptions).

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The cheat sheets

How they fit together. Read them in the order a trade actually happens. The Key Numbers is the reference card you keep open throughout. The Trade Entry Checklist and Strategy Selector run before the fill — the selector picks the structure, the checklist validates that this specific trade clears every gate. Management & Adjustment runs after — it governs the rest of the position's life. Together they reconstruct the full premium-selling loop: pick what to sell, confirm it's worth selling, size it, and know in advance how you'll get out.

A standing caution that applies to all four: these are mechanics, not signals. The numbers are robust historical defaults drawn from the method's own backtests, not guarantees — profit targets are not one universal figure (50% for strangles, 25% for straddles/iron butterflies, IV-Rank-scaled variants all coexist), and the time stop itself drifted from ~15 DTE to ~21 DTE over the years. Where a sheet gives a single number, the underlying finding file gives the range and the conflict.

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Related sections

18_research_findings (the receipts behind every figure here) · 05_trade_management · 09_strangles · 10_iron_condors · 07_short_premium · 20_position_sizing · 21_trade_adjustments · 23_platform_usage · 28_glossary · 29_source_index

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Sources

These index notes carry no original claims — every figure is a condensation of a fully sourced finding in 18_research_findings, which is the authoritative citation layer for this folder. The primary education pages behind the headline numbers (all directly fetched and verified verbatim):

Underlying research studies (real indexed episode URLs; episode pages render client-side, so their quantitative results are reported via the publisher's own search summaries and cross-referenced — Conf Med — exactly as documented in the 18_research_findings sourcing note; none is fabricated):

Sourcing note: per the convention established in 18_research_findings and the 29_source_index, evergreen concept and `/learn/` pages are fetched and verified verbatim; dated show-episode and support-article pages are real indexed URLs that render client-side and so are reported second-hand at Conf Med. No URL in this folder is fabricated. Per the Project Charter, Grade A is reserved for published options-education studies; any third-party explanation is at most Grade C.

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_Evidence-labeled per the Project Charter. Education only, not financial advice._