MAN AND MACHINE — EP. 237 (The Pulse) Channel: Tradier Hub URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui0uudEr5nk Streamed: June 1, 2026 Runtime: ~36 min Source: YouTube auto-generated captions, lightly cleaned for readability. Verbatim content; filler and cross-talk retained. ======================================================================[music] What is going on everybody? Happy Monday. Welcome back to Man and Machine here with the Peakbot team, the household name for automated trading. Uh Ben, what's going on man? Happy Monday.Happy Monday. How was your weekend, Dylan? It was good, man. You know, just I don't know. We were just kind of talking.I have a young kid at home, so it's like I'm battling every 30 minutes just for like entertainment value. Just like let's go do something that's not Ben, have you ever even heard of um you know the wiggles? The wiggles. Yeah, you know the wiggles, right? I mean Yeah.Yeah. By the way, your mic check your mic. Check your mic. Nothing's easy. Let's see if we got the wrong mic here.Yeah, I think we do. This a lot better. Okay. Wait, no. No, it's not.Can't hear you at all . Why don't you buy some time? Doug said hi. Let's say that's good now. Hey, Doug.How's it going? Happy new month, new week. We're almost at a new quarter, too. Yeah, we are. My goodness.It's It's June officially. Um May is behind us. May it was a great month for Peakbot Strategies. Um was we recapped it on Friday. Yeah, we did.Um, so you can check out our X or our YouTube channel to see [music] all of the results. We'll probably touch on them at a high level today. We dove in a little bit deeper on Friday, [music] but yeah, the the royal family of the King uh strategies, their 1DTE iron condors on SPX have been hot. Our new bot, Gatekeepers, hot, which is official officially launching technically Thursday, coming out of beta um with the removal of I shouldn't say removal because it's r eally not a removal, is it Ben? It's not a removal of PBT.It's a lower well lower barrier, much lower barrier. 25K down to 2K. So, most trading accounts that are trading options likely have 2K in them anyway. And now you're able to day trade um uh without limits. So, a lot of opportunity, a lot of risk, but Gatekeeper has been uh doing really well, and that's one way to automate your portfolio.So, we're going to get we're going to touch on some results, but we're here to do a few things. stocks in real life. Um, we're going to talk about uh an interesting one today. We'll see if we can form a non-financial advice trade idea. Um, and then uh Gez, I don't know.A little bit of everything probably, right? Yeah, probably. Okay. See see where the morning takes us. All right.So, if you're not if you're new to Peakbot, we're an easy to use automated trading platform for the everyday retail trader. We have our own strategies and about I'm going to just start saying 50 cuz it'll soon be 50 live strategies in our marketplace um with our partners. So um yeah, let's let's do this. Here we have a comment from Doug. This should be interesting.I see a brokerage with the initials RH is offering access to automated trading. Are you planning on integrating there too? Um let me take the short answer to honest answer, Ben. Short and honest answer. Yeah.Okay. Short and honest answer. We are not going if RH is Robin Hood, we're not going to be on Robin Hood anytime soon. [music] Um, uh, they don't have they don't have an open API. So, if anybody's automating on Robin Hood, just throw a big question mark on that.Um, but you didn't hear from us moving forward. Yeah. As soon Robin Hood releases an open API for third party developers, we're in. We'll be there. Yeah.But we still prefer trade here, of course. Option fees like like no other. Now look, you know, the whole another conversation with those other brokers, but look, as far as automated trading goes, Trade Ear is the best in the business. Um, so all right, good question. Um, hopefully a good answer.There will be there will be brokers that are offering uh access to automated trading. A lot of it is driven by, you know, conversations that you'll have with an LLM. The LLM will interpret what you're saying and sort of build a build a bot. So, it still is kind of like the build your own bot scenario uh to where you need to bring the parameters in. I've sat in on a couple of webinars that other brokers have offered to talk more about what they're offering in terms of, you know, uh self-hosted automated trading.A lot of cool stuff for sure. Um at the end of the day, it it is, you know, a build your own bot program and we [music] know how hard that is. uh what you're doing. We like to we like to partner with with traders and with people that have strategies that have been proven. So I I believe that that's that will be with automation, you know, blowing up in this industry here, that will be what helps set us apart.It's our partners. Who's been able to survive? Yeah. Yeah. Who's able to survive?It's survival of the fittest. That's what this game is for sure. Um all right, let's get into stocks in real life. What do you got today? Cool.Today we are talking about rock. Now [music] there are a lot of I'd say like there's Marshalls, right? That's one of them. There's TJ Maxx. There's uh there's one by the mall that is near us still and I can't remember the name.Um I like you introduced [music] you introduced me to this. I like uh Oh jeez. What's the sporting story? the the Dick store. Uh going going gone.Yeah, going gone. That's a good one. That's a good one. Um there's a ton of these and I would be I think a couple of them are owned by the same business. Like I think TJ Maxx and Marshalls are together.I could be wrong about that. I maybe we'll look it up. I'm going to look up an IPO date for Ross here. I have a Ross right here now that opened up at at my mall. I've been in it.I don't go the re much, but I, you know, certainly a discount store. Um, and I love discount shopping for clothes for sure. Like I'm not a very like proper, you know, need expensive clothing. So, I'll find myself any of these discount stores and and Nordstrom Racks like another one that's a little bit more, but they do pretty good. All right, Ross IPO.Let's see. I I've got no idea for this one. All right, I'm going to guess the 90s. Yeah, pretty good guess, man. You're not 94.That's my guess. 85. Okay. Yeah, they've been around a while. So, August 8th, 1985.Initial offering price $17 a share. Of course, Ben is probably pulling up the link uh the link for um the chart, otherwise I will. I got it. I've got it up. I'm just trying to find out what other brands are within the Ross brand.Oh, okay. Yeah, le t's find that out. What do you got so far? Nothing. Hard to hard to find anything here.Maybe it's just Ross. Okay, maybe it's just Ross. I mean, look, they've been doing their own thing. They've been IPOed since 85. Uh, public since ' 85.Market cap of 70. Hold on. The market cap is $75 billion. There has to be more than just the Ross brand. All right.So, you you do some research there. I'm going to talk about what we're looking at on the chart for a little bit. So, I've got daily discounts. Sorry. What is it?I've never It's not in our area, but it's a sister off-pric chain called Deed's Discount. DD's Discounts. DD discounts. Yeah, I've seen the website, right? Two two department stores like discount department stores worth $75 billion.[laughter] It seems like a lot. Um, but Ross has been has been ripping over the last year. It looks [music] like if we look at where we were at this time a year ago, we were trading right at right around $140 per share. Now that now we're at [music] $231 per share and we've been honestly we've been ripping up this entire time even through the war. Yeah.I don't get it really. What's that? I don't get it. I mean, you're right. I'm looking clothing.TJ, it makes sense. I mean, look how right like how much what percentage of Americans, you know, don't have much cash [laughter] and you got to make it work. Like this feels like this feels like Do me a favor. Pull up Walmart. I want to see a Walmart chart next to this.You want me to go side by side? You don't have to, but if you want to, you could. Yeah, that'd be cool. Okay. Wow.What's goin g on, Walmart? One one year for Walmart, one year for Ross. A little more volatile on the uh Walmart side there. Yeah, look at that. Um, by the way, TJ Maxx and Marshalls are owned both by TJX.Um, okay. So, that is a ticker in itself. I believe it is. Um, [music] and this is wild with Ross, honestly. Um, I'm going to see how many stores there are.You have any guesses on that? Um, I'm just [music] I mean, no. I mean, yes, I'll guess, but I have no idea. I'm going to guess 250 stores nationwide. You're not going to believe this, bro.Okay. 2,270 locations. All right. There's 1,900 locations. Ross Dress for Less and 360 of the DD's discounts.Um, no way. Yeah. Is it US only? Uh, I I think so. Let me see.That's crazy because I can only think of like maybe two in the state of New Jersey. Oka y. All in the They are only in Guam and Puerto Rico. Wow. Yeah, dude.This is a massive This is a massive company. Yeah, I guess. Let's take a closer look. When's their next like [music] Yeah, dollar store. Yeah, it's it's definitely clothing.It's discount clothing for sure, but like I've been in there. It's just like a Marshalls. I maybe it's a little cheaper. Um, dude, I bet there's 300 in the in Georgia. What's wrong?That's crazy. So, I I brought up TJX to do a comparison side by side. Both of these are showing exactly one year. It looks like similar Ross is doing something different just based on share value here. Ross is doing something different than TJX.So TJX's market cap is $171 billion. So they are more than double the size of Ross. Um but in my opinion still crazy that they'r e [music] valued so high. Um, I guess I just don't know enough about these discounted department stores. Uh, I would have definitely rather been invested in Ross over this last year because their uh share value grew by was it $90 90 and 140.[music] So, you would have you would have made like 60%. Year-over-year just holding this buy and hold. Ross is paying a dividend. Ross pays looks like 45ish cents per quarter uh on the share and then so does TJX. TGX pays about 42 now 48 cents every quarter.Um so these could be dividend plays if you're of 60 in the state of Georgia. Wow. There's AI. Yeah, my Google search came up with 80 in the just the Atlanta area. So, and I you got to believe it.I mean, there's 1,900 in the US. I'm looking at the store locator right now. Pull that up on screen. P ull up. It seems to It's not cool because it seems to just be locking into like one little area.So, hold on. I'll see if I can fix it. No, it won't show It won't show every store for me. Uh, so if if I'm if I'm forced to trade ticker rost, [music] if you were forced, I'm I'm probably bullish on it, right? I'm looking at this and I'm I'm [music] going to do some investigating as to what happened.Uh, what is that at the beginning of May? Was that just the market? Why we dropped down? I don't know. I don't remember what happened at the beginning of May.Uh but then earnings we gap right back up to where we were. Uh and how long is this chart? Uh this is one year. You go out just a little bit. Give me the five.Look at that. I want to see five years. I want to see five. Okay. All right.So, it had been floating at that one, you know, touching and going on 140, 150 for a while and then just taking off, honestly. Yeah. Let's pull up an option chain on this thing. I wonder how much this thing moves in a week. Um, I'm going to take [music] a look.Take a look. I'll zoom in on the daily bars. I mean, we've got a fairly tight range week overw week. Like this day looks like a big red bar, but it only dropped down 10 bucks, call it, which yeah, it's 5% on a $200 stock. Let's see.So, I'm going to do something expiring. I was going to look shortterm, but like now, you know, when we look at this, the long term of it, like I'd love to do this I'd love to do this maybe for like 6 months or something. We look at like Yeah. No, I don't know. Yeah, I probably would.I'd probably go to like November or or even like the holidays now cuz now you're retail. So jeez, let's 200 days from now is December 18th. [music] What's it trading at right now? $231 per share. So at 231 like what if we if I just had sold we just sell a put credit spread like I would just I wonder how much it's worth.I I'm not going to waste our time. But do you have any ideas with this stock and looking at it? I'll I'll see if there's any credit here. I mean, what's uh you what what expiration? I was looking at a 1218 200 days out and then and if if we said we're going to do nothing but go up here.Yeah, correct. Like like if we just sold a put spread, $10 widespread. I mean, at least pricing right now, which could change when the market opens, we're looking at about $320 credit. I don't love that. I don't lo ve that for a half a year play.Yeah, that's that's Yeah, that's that's not especially right at the money. All right, I'm going to go look at the weekly then, just to have some fun with it. So, let's say I think we're bullish this week and I want to sell a put right at 230. All right. So, if I sold a put at 230, bought one at 2 22750, there's 28 cents in credit.I mean, again, [music] it's kind of wide right now because the the data is a little funky, but um if I was to go five wide, it's the credit mids about 150 bucks. So, you know, there actually is some weekly premium available here. Um we'll have to see how much it's paying when the market opens, but um look, Ben, I don't know about you, I'll say this. Uh a lot more behind this stock than I had initially guessed. I I judged a book by its cover, didn't I?Yeah. Um, lot of motion for Ross for a while now. Lot of motion. Here's my trade idea. Here's here's what [music] I'm thinking.We've got an X dividend date coming in 9 days, eight days. What if we bought 100 shares, which you need, you know, 20 something,000 to do that. buy a 100 shares, sell a covered call on it, um slightly out of the money because if you're in the money on X date, you'll probably get assigned. Mhm. And then collect that dividend which pays out on June 30th.Yeah. Like um so actually Okay, how about this? Sell a cash secured put this week, collect premium on it, sell in the money. So that way you will get assigned and then also sell a call expiring next week at the same strike. So you'll get assigned and those shares potentially called away at the s ame price.Um plus you collect on the dividend. So you're collecting you're collecting premium from two different contracts. You're collecting a dividend payout and you're looking to break even on the shares. That was a lot better than my trade idea. You really went into it.I didn't realize there's a dividend coming up. Um, that's a good play. We'll see. I mean, now you're actually It's a little cash intensive for my taste. Um, and by that I mean and by that I mean I couldn't if I wanted to, but um Okay, fantastic.Ben, do you have anything else on on on Ross? Rost. I wonder where the T comes from. The T's kind of killing me in the ticker. Yeah, I don't know.I can't even think of why they would want a T there. No, no, I'm I'm I'm good with Ross. All right, fantastic. What do you want to move into? Um, you want to talk a little bit about Gatekeeper or we maybe we touched on it on Friday a little bit, but [music] um we could do that.We can do a quick I could do a highle overview of the of the royal family and our and our results there if you'd like. What What do you think? Um yeah, because we've now we closed out on Friday. We've the month. Let's Yeah, let's review May real quick.All right, cool. Let's review May. So, I'm going to pull up my screen here and we're going to get going to get into it. Okay, so [snorts] that short call would be uncovered till the put gets assigned. So, we might have to wait till those shares get assigned to sell that call.Fair. Duck's on it. All right. So, May, we're going to start with King AI. All right.A nice even round number. Why isn't this sharing? Okay, so this is King AI, our 1DTE iron condor strategy on SPX. Trades about 12 times a month. Let's see how many did it take this [music] month.2 4 6 8 10 11 trades in May with a $700 profit per unit. Of course, you can trade multiple units through Peakbots automated trading [music] software depending upon your subscription level. Um, keep in mind this is using $1,000 per trade. Okay, this is a $10 wide spread with an iron condor. Um, and you are risking $1,000 per trade collecting aboutund and call it Yeah, call it 160 170 in average premium lately.I'm just doing some rough visual math here. Um, and you could see we'll lose a couple times a month. In May, we only lost once. That makes once. That makes for a great month.Ben, 8.85 seems to be the loser every time. I don't know about you, but every time we have a loser, 8.85 seems to be the number. Um, we should just not trade whenever we we collect $115 in premium. I'm telling you, man. Like, let's So, if we were to look back, let's look at some recent losses.Maybe I'm tripping. Yeah. And no, I'm totally totally tripping. Oh, okay. No, no, let's forget that I said that.Maybe that was just my way to show how awesome King AI has been for the last few months. Um, so, so 700 a unit. It's fantastic month. Um, we are on a streak here. Let's look at the cumulative.Okay, so overall results, okay, total ROI since [music] King AAI has launched is $3,480 in profit. Um, you can see here got off to a really hard hot start. Our most turbulent time was in uh end of March into April where we saw three losses with a $2,0 00 draw down, but the bot is up nearly $3,500 bucks. Um, that's a fantastic return if you're looking cash on cash realistically using 2,000 because you can be in two trades at once. Um, just a fantastic fantastic return.So, that's King AI. 700 bucks per unit in May. Um, I'm going to actually scoot over to King Condor for the next one because we sleep on King Condor. We talked about this Friday. King Condor is actually what [music] maybe V2 of the King family whereas King AI and Turbo are kind of three and four.So, King AI had a great month. It's a little bit more aggressive in that it's always going to go for the 20 delta. All right. So, the premium earned on it is going to be higher. As you can see, naturally, it's earning about 300 in premium, a little clo close to 300.Um, we have som e partial wins and some partial losses in here. Uh, because we do have a stop loss built into King Condorf. What is it, Bennett? Uh, in the in the money for two minutes trying to get out, right? I think it's close to that.There's Yeah, couple other things. Close enough. Um so even with four losses on the month with 2 4 6 8 10 trades. Okay, it won 60% of its trades in May. Now that's exactly what we expect out of King Condor.It wins [music] it's actually a little bit high. It wins between 55 57% of the time usually. So $830 per unit on King Condor. Now we're going to go to King AI Turbo, the most aggressive of the bunch. Okay.Uh, we got 1710, $1,710 in profit per unit in the month of May for King AI Turbo. So, that's 2 [music] 4 6 8 10 trades. Okay. Uh, one loss. You can see when we lose we the Let's go to the win rate here.Okay. So, King AI Turbo's winning 85% of trades. All right, which is excellent. Again, most turbulent time. Largest draw down was at that end of uh end of March into April.$2,500 draw down here. That's why we that's why we state on our platform, right, Ben? Like, hey, 10K is the number. Don't just have 2K because that's all it takes to trade. You know, we're not telling you what to do.We're not financial advisors, but we put that budget in there at 10K to give you some breathing room to get down get through a draw down like that and not be totally out for the count. Um, okay. high-end up over 250% cash on cash since launch November 26, Thanksgiving last year, $5,059. Okay, so again, from the royal family here, King AI returned 700 a unit, King Condo r returned $830 a unit, [music] and King AI Turbo returned 1710 per unit. Look, if you're watching this and you're like ignoring that for some reason, don't.Just put your walls down. Let's just have a conversation. Go to peekbot.com, take a look at these strategies and more and just consider getting automated if you're on a fantastic broker like Trade and a few others that shall not be named today. Um, you can get this done. All right, Ben, let's look at Gatekeeper May because look, we've had a turbulent Gatekeeper launching and somebody might look at this result sheet and say, "Wait a minute.Go back to King AI. Go back to Turbo, please." Because look, it's not as exciting, but that's for good reason. Gatekeeper is not a as well, you'll tell me what you think, but it's not as high risk p er se, as a you know, King AI. It depends how you bet it. I mean, it's definitely a very active bot.It could get into seven positions at a time. Uh, and normally all in the same direction as well, cuz we're building off of market momentum. Um, I feel like this always happens whenever we put a new bot out into the market. Like, it just it just doesn't. And I'm not saying that that's the first time we live trade it.Like, we're live trading prior to launching to beta and to just normal users. Um, but overall, I mean, still really good. I think when you look at any equity curve, you're going to see you're either going to see one of three periods. You're going to see periods where you're profiting, periods where you're losing, or periods where you're flat. Right?We started off really hot, pr ofiting, now we're [music] flat. The idea though is you got to be you got to be in it. Right? You can't predict when I mean, maybe you can, but if you can I don't Yeah, we can't. Um [music] if you can then you're probably too rich to uh even be watching this right now.Yeah, you're not watching you can't predict when these things are going to get hot, right? Like we see it with Shorebo, which there will be updates coming to Shbo uh with the new PDT rule, but you see it with Shbo, right? Shbo will go on some crazy win streaks where it wins like 10 trades in a row. Uh, and it just has a phenomenal month and that's just, you know, you got to kind of roll with the punches when the punches come. Couldn't agree more.Um, now that you segueed into Shbo, let's let's look at it. Um, here's SHBO. Th is is our zero DTE orb opening range breakout strategy on S&P. Uh, looking for some morning momentum. And if we see a breakout of our range, we're going to place a trade with a credit spread $5 wide depending on the direction.either a bullish put spread or a bearish call credit spread. So, here's May up 250. I missed it. Not Thank you, Doug. One of us met.Um, all right. So, do something real quick. I just want to see if somebody was trading if somebody maxing out Peakbot on a $1.99 a month subscription, how much would they have made? All right. So, you want to talk all the bots?Yeah, because I mean ideally every somebody's trading every single All right. You including Benbot? Benbot didn't trade last month. Okay. All right.So, let's talk. Ready? Ready for some numbers? Yes. 700 plus.S o, that's 700 times two though cuz on maxing out. Yeah. If you're maxing out. So, 1400. All right.Plus, 1710 times two. That's [music] for That's 20. That's 34. Do you have a calculator open, bro? Yeah, but how about you just do 1710 twice?Yeah, I could do that, but I got it right. Oh my goodness. King Condor, you're such an accountant. 8:30 twice. [music] 1660.Gatekeeper May was down 106. So down 212. Benbot didn't trade. And then shorebo 251 * 2. [music] So 502.Wow. Divided by 199. Wow. Yeah. I love that.Love that. That's a 35 34 times return on your subscription [music] payment. 6600 6670 something like that. Good month. Hey, let's go to dinner.Let's go to dinner first. Let's win a softball game tonight. That's right. Dinner. So, by the way, what's not involved there is the wheel strategy because the wheel selects off of you select off of a watch list with 10 different individual stocks that you can select from ETFs or index funds.And Ben, I would imagine the month of May was pretty good for wheelers, too, just with all the up, you know, with the movement, upward movement. So, what a great I was wheeling TQQQ through the month of May. I don't even know how it's doing. I kind of Let's go look. I like this game.Let's go look if we're in the same position. I'm not in any position right now. Oh, then I must not be either. Let's see. Yeah, I'm trying to see the activity for the month of May.[music] So, let's go back and let's I can share screen while I do this. Why not? Why not, man? Uh, all right. Zoom in here.For the month of May. Yeah, we can keep that there. TQQ Q. Yeah, [music] just uh trading every week and letting this expire. I'm going to just put this into a Google sheet and then I don't know if they have the Google sheet open that's appropriate to share on screen.Hold on. Don't worry about it. Here TQS has been good cuz Ben when you started it wasn't you you got in and it all fell apart. You got in at what like 40? It was trading like 55 between 50 and 55.You got in at like 45, went down or or higher and then it went all the way down to like 33 on you and then I'm just guesstimating. And now we're back. Oh, there it is. There's your number. Yeah.Yep. $412. Made $412 wheeling TQQQ. [music] Now, we can't max that number because technically you could 10x it. Yeah, you could 10x that.Can you on tier one? I don't remember. Yes, you can. Um, y eah, you can, Doug. What's TIL?I don't know. What's TIL, Doug? Um, all right. So, I guess to sum it up, fantastic month to be a Peakbot trader. That's not even taking into consideration any of our partner strategies that we automate for in the marketplace.If you're curious to learn about what else Peakbot Automates, head on over to our website, peakbot.com. You'll click on browse strategies and you'll see everything. Ben, why don't you take us out with some economic events heading up uh coming up this week and uh anything to look out for? Yeah, TIL stands for today I learned. Wow.Did not know that. Did not know that. All right. Economic events. What do we have going on in the world this week?Uh we've got some data this morning again and we went over this on Friday. I'll just I'll just say nothing really of note to be uh looking at this week. We've got jobs tomorrow. Actually, sorry, Friday. There is uh we've got some jobs reports tomorrow, Tuesday into Wednesday.Uh nothing much going on, at least nothing that will turn the one DTE bots off. And that's really why we look at this because we want to know what we've got to look forward to the week ahead, Wednesday into Thursday. Not too much. Again, there's a lot going on, but nothing of high impact. But Friday is when non-farm payroll data comes out, and that has historically proven to be bad for our iron condor strategies.Um, so the fixed logic, i.e. PBond Condor and King Condor strategies [music] will be off from Thursday going into Friday due to NFP. the AI bots will have to decide for [music] themselves if they want to be on or off. Um, and then we've got unemployment data. Uh, and then nothing much for the rest of the day on uh on Friday.Then we have a Fed speech on Saturday. Um, but it is not the new Fed chair. We got a I guess we're going to call him K. Worsh, right? Instead of JPAL, we got K.Worsh now. That could be right. Um. Oh, did we lose Dylan? I think we lost Dylan.I'm I'm Can you hear me? Now I can. Yeah. So, I was gone that whole time until you literally just said, "Did we lose [music] Dylan?" Um, well, I heard the the when you came back into the studio. I was, "Oh, I guess he was gone." So, my camera I must have like knocked the wire loose and it won't it won't come back on for me.So, you're going to I'm here in spirit. Okay. Well, we're just about done here. So, why don't why don't y ou talk? I'll move my mouth as if I'm talking.You're gonna try and guess what I'm going to say? Yeah. All right. That's pretty funny. All right.Well, hey, thank you so much for tuning in. Um, we will be live again Friday at noon Eastern time. Um, hope you have a great week and as always, we'll see you at the peak. Take care. [music] You know how the financial world goes.Here comes the buzzkill. [music] Please make sure to take some time to read this boring disclaimer. We will owe you one.