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NVIDIA Options Trading: A Viewer Asked About $29,000 Here’s the Small Account Fix
Date: 2026-08-15 10:30:08
NVIDIA Options Trading for Small Accounts: A viewer called out that my NVIDIA trade requires $29,000. They were right. Here’s the exact fix.
A viewer left this comment on my NVIDIA video:
“It should be mentioned that you’re setting aside $29,000 to put on this trade.”
They were right. So I built the small account version. Same structure. Same $2,500 upside. A fraction of the capital.
The Small Account Blueprint:
✅ Keep the same call spread: Buy 220 call, sell 245 call → $2,500 upside unchanged
✅ Change the put side: Sell the 165 put, buy the 135 put
✅ Maximum loss: $3,000 instead of $29,000
✅ Cash account buying power: $6,000 instead of $29,000
The reason I moved the strike to 165 is to collect more premium to help pay for the protective 135 put. Same structure. Sized for your account.
The #1 Small Account Mistake — Quantity Creep:
Because spreads are cheap, beginners sell five of them and quietly rebuild the same $29,000 of risk they were trying to avoid.
Cheap per trade is NOT the same as safe in total.
One right-sized spread on a company you’d love to own beats five lottery tickets every single time.
Survive first. Compound second.
Structure beats prediction.
Win when you’re right.
Win when you’re wrong.
Never gamble at any account size.
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ABOUT DAVID JAFFEE:
• Ivy League graduate
• Former Wall Street investment banker (Morgan Stanley, CIBC, Pesky Prunier)
• 10+ years full-time options trader with a $2.8M verified portfolio
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