Trade Options on High-Quality Companies With These Traits
Stansberry Investor Hour
Stansberry Research
4.3 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Stansberry Investor Hour, Dan and Corey welcome Stephen Hester to the show. Stephen is an editor at our corporate affiliate Wide Moat Research.
Stephen kicks things off by breaking down the Federal Reserve, interest rates, bonds, and how all of them are intertwined. He also clears up some misconceptions that folks might have regarding the Fed and the markets. He follows up by explaining his strategy for investing in options. Contrary to what some might believe, Stephen says that it's important to know about a company before its options. (0:00)
Next, Stephen warns about the temptation to sell premiums on trending companies. He says that successful trades might cause folks to focus on potential high gains rather than the fundamentals. Then he discusses the different methods of knowing where the yields for options ought to be. And he mentions the struggles that individual investors might have with finding good opportunities. (19:18)
Finally, Stephen shares one company that he's really interested in. It's a company that he has studied and researched in the past, and it remains a strong business. And Stephen mentions that one of the biggest things he hopes he can do for readers (apart from helping them find worthwhile companies to invest in) is to educate them. He says his goal is to help provide them with the tools to invest in the years to come. (35:54)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Stansberry Investor Hour. I'm Dan Ferris. I'm the editor of Extreme Value and the Ferris Report, both published by Stansberry |
| 0:20.8 | Research. And I'm Corey McLaughlin, editor of the Stansberry Daily Digest. Today we talk with |
| 0:26.4 | Stephen Hester, editor at our corporate affiliate, Wide Moat Research. Stephen is awesome. He |
| 0:34.6 | knows all about options trading for income, and he knows all about high yield |
| 0:39.5 | securities. Two great areas. I know a lot of people are concerned with income, as they should be, |
| 0:45.6 | and this is the guy to talk to. And let's do that now. Let's talk with Stephen Hester. Let's do it |
| 0:51.5 | right now. |
| 0:57.0 | Stephen, welcome to the show. |
| 0:58.3 | Glad you could be here. |
| 0:59.8 | Thank you, Dan. |
| 1:00.9 | You bet. |
| 1:02.4 | Corey and I are going to pepper you with some questions for a while here this morning. |
| 1:08.3 | Let's start out, though, with the ultimate question for our listener who is saying, |
| 1:12.7 | hmm, Stephen is a new guest, haven't seen him before. |
| 1:15.5 | Maybe you could just tell him a little bit about what you're doing now and how you got there, |
| 1:19.0 | a little bit about your background. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, happy to. |
| 1:21.6 | It's been a fun adventure. |
| 1:24.0 | As of right now, I manage two of the three back-in products for wide-mode research. |
| 1:31.3 | So my partner, Brad Thomas, he's definitely the figurehead. |
| 1:34.3 | I go on camera every once in a while, so a few people have probably seen me, but he's definitely the star of the show. |
| 1:41.3 | But I run an option service, not a speculative. speculative in fact I'd call it the opposite |
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