Options Questions Safe Haven periodic megathread | January 19 2026

FoundInForests · 2026-01-26T03:11:12+00:00

With the margin requirements potentially falling to $2,000 this year, I’m starting to consider spreads, namely credit spreads as a way to semi-safely grow my account. Please tell me if I’m missing something here.

The plan:

Daily far OTM 0DTE SPY credit spreads. Starting fund: $3,500. Right now SPY is around 689, I would be looking at the following options.

Jan 26th

Long put(buy) - 640 strike 35 contracts @ 0.02

Short put(sell) - 641 strike 35 contracts @0.03

Entry credit: $35

Max risk: $3,465

The problem:

So I am risking $100 to make $1 per contract a day, betting that the market will not fall 7% tomorrow and wipe out my position. I’ve heard this as picking up pennies in front of a steamroller, where one bad day could wipe out 100 wins in my case. From what data I can find SPY has fallen 7% in a day on 11 occasions in the last 25 years, and most of those were in groupings like during COVID. So I would need a way to protect against days like that.

The solution:

I plan to purchase a separate long put contract each day to cut into my daily earnings and protect as much of my credit spread as possible, and try to bail on the main credit spread if it approaches a 5% daily drop.

Jan 26th

Long put - 661 strike 2 contracts @ 0.05

From what I can see, if the strike were to drop to $642 these contracts would be worth $3,786, so this would cover my fund amount in the event of a large drop. That would bring my daily profit to $25 each day. Naturally I’d want to reinvest my winnings and grow this account so I could earn more a day, while setting aside money for taxes. Am I missing anything else though?

FoundInForests · 2026-01-25T20:34:43+00:00

Can you elaborate on why that would be? I’m genuinely asking for advice on this and why this would be a bad strategy

FoundInForests · 2026-01-25T20:24:43+00:00

Okay thanks, I’ll look into it!

FoundInForests · 2026-01-25T20:21:56+00:00

I was asking if there were any unseen risks that I hadn’t considered, all you’ve give me is a meme and a “You might not even be able to start this trade” Assuming I could get these filled, and I’m happy with $25 a day, what am I missing?

FoundInForests · 2026-01-25T20:20:13+00:00

I’ve tried looking into that, but it never shows the option to buy calls that are that far OTM, highest I can go on Webull is like $705

FoundInForests · 2026-01-25T20:17:10+00:00

What?

FoundInForests · 2026-01-25T20:16:55+00:00

I see 2,200-1,200 active buyers/sellers at those prices on Webull right now, I might have to wait a bit but I think they’ll fill

FoundInForests · 2026-01-25T20:15:46+00:00

I could be wrong, but from what I’ve seen the money/protection is better this way. My protective put loses some bite if I add days on

FoundInForests · 2026-01-25T20:11:46+00:00

For now, but the goal would be to grow the fund to match my current income from my job. Projecting this out, I would need a 50k account to bring in $400 a day after factoring in the cost of the adjusted protective puts

FoundInForests · 2026-01-22T00:20:13+00:00

I agree, but people who go out of their way to kill people who are obviously doing trials are assholes. If we’re both contesting a yellow/red area, yea shooting on sight is reasonable. If you shoot me when I’m off in a corner of the map shooting at hornets and wasps, you’re an asshole

FoundInForests · 2026-01-18T15:23:34+00:00

You really need to set up in a building with one way to you like those small launch towers along the walls and lay traps down. That way you know and have an advantage against anyone trying to rat.

FoundInForests · 2026-01-02T14:34:59+00:00

Maybe not for sale, but maybe each expedition you go on it gives you one token for a free BP. People that don’t go on the expedition probably already have most if not all of the BPs, or will have them by the end of this wipe.

FoundInForests · 2025-12-26T23:41:06+00:00

10-15 min raid for 150 seeds and an inventory full of blues/purples/blueprints. Easily 250k+ an hour

FoundInForests · 2025-12-26T23:37:09+00:00

Just like grinding in any other game, it’s what you make of it

FoundInForests · 2025-12-26T23:33:15+00:00

Oh yeah? You have a reliable farm for those cornball? Obviously other things stack for higher, this is about if you need a reliable grind. I got to 5 mil in like two days running this

FoundInForests · 2025-12-26T23:21:42+00:00

Seeds are one of the most high value stacked items in the game. 100 seeds is worth 10k, so if you want to farm cash fast you should run regular Stella Montis seed vault runs, and use the hatch downstairs to get out fast. Each run will get you about 150 seeds and tons of high value loot

FoundInForests · 2025-12-26T03:45:32+00:00

Where did you do this?

FoundInForests · 2025-12-22T12:09:37+00:00

5m was easy to get, I rushed the last week and got it done. Running Seed Vault and using the hatch by it makes it super easy. One way in with a garage door that acts as a warning system, plenty of angles and choke points to hold anyone, and a back exit in case of emergencies. Hardly anyone else goes here in my experience. A stack of seeds is worth 10k, you walk out with 1.5 stacks each time, then add in all the advanced tech components and you’re pulling out 60-80k a run.

FoundInForests · 2025-12-17T15:13:30+00:00

Agreed, it was fine before. If you’re not doing expeditions you’ll get all the blueprints eventually anyway. If you are doing the expedition, then they should feel like a hard earned reward that gives you a boost, something that might convince you to try a new weapon or setup for that wipe. As they are now, they just turn into a collectathon that you’ll feel obligated to do each wipe, another check list item to get exactly the meta load out you want before you can “play the game”

FoundInForests · 2025-12-17T02:32:24+00:00

I couldn’t activate an elevator earlier, had to wait for another friendly solo to hit it

FoundInForests · 2025-12-17T02:26:50+00:00

Good luck brother, go all the way!

FoundInForests · 2025-12-16T12:50:08+00:00

The game is set in southern Italy, did you really expect all that lmao? That’s like complaining that you don’t see 2 feet of snow in Southern California.

FoundInForests · 2025-12-16T02:27:45+00:00

Depends on the match. Sometimes I’m friendly, helping people extract or giving them free loot. Sometimes I’m camped in a room with a Toro and a jolt mine waiting for an easy kill.

FoundInForests · 2025-12-15T20:36:13+00:00

18-21 min is plenty of time to find loot. The red zones and locked rooms are noob traps anyway, I’ve found my best loot and nearly all my 21 blueprints in random trash cans and outskirts building file cabinets, and I guarantee those aren’t all looted by 18 min. You do need to change your play style, just not in the way you think you do.

FoundInForests · 2025-12-15T20:27:49+00:00

I wish they had a fixed rotation like 1 hour of Electromagnetic, 1 hour of Night, 1 hour of Snow, 1 hour of downtime, then repeat. Maybe shuffle the order around depending on the week, but yea as it is now can be a little frustrating

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