{"id":15650,"date":"2025-07-17T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=15650"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:36:22","slug":"why-i-like-leaps-as-a-stock-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=15650","title":{"rendered":"Why I Like LEAPS as a Stock Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"104\"><strong data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"104\">Stock vs. LEAPS: Which Wins?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"218\">What if you could control 100 shares of a stock like Nvidia\u2014but with less capital and a higher potential return?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"220\" data-end=\"443\">In this post, I break down a real trade I made with NVDA, comparing a traditional stock purchase to a LEAPS options strategy. I explain Delta, ROI, and why I chose 2 contracts instead of 1. The results might surprise you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"535\">Check out the numbers and see why I often prefer LEAPS over shares: [<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=15645\">Click Here<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"535\">\n<p>\ud83d\udcc8Successful trading,<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock vs. LEAPS: Which Wins? What if you could control 100 shares of a stock like Nvidia\u2014but with less capital and a higher potential return? In this post, I break down a real trade I made with NVDA, comparing a traditional stock purchase to a LEAPS options strategy. I explain Delta, ROI, and why I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75MP0-44q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15651,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions\/15651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}