Episode 234 of The Automation Station — the Friday show on The Pulse from the Tradier Hub — pairs a quick check on PeakBot’s own bots with a partner spotlight that’s part strategy lesson, part origin story. Heading into Memorial Day weekend, Dillon and Ben bring on Logan of Lage Trading, a zero-DTE SPX credit-spread trader whose style is aggressive at the edges but disciplined at its core.
First, the house bots. King AI, the 1DTE iron condor on SPX, is riding a four-win streak and up roughly $3,000 (about 150% cash-on-cash on the $2,000 it uses) since its September launch. King AI Turbo, the tighter, higher-premium sibling, is up around $4,500 since Thanksgiving. The guys map the day’s live strikes — Turbo’s call at 74.95, King AI’s higher at 75.15 — as SPX bounces off resistance near 7500 after a soft Michigan consumer sentiment print, with the tighter Turbo condor collecting about $310 in premium versus King AI’s $180.
Then Logan takes the stage, and it’s a candid conversation. He’s an option seller to the core, six years in the content space, and he doesn’t shy from the numbers: he once turned $300,000 into $2.4 million, watched the IRS take half (“the most humbling experience”), and has since shifted his goal to sustainably making around half a million a year without the stress of chasing seven-figure swings. His day-to-day method centers on the expected move. A Discord bot hands him the daily EM after the close; if the market has already traveled that expected move by the open, he sells a credit spread roughly 100 points away, aiming for a 1–3% daily return with the philosophy that selling spreads “isn’t about being right, it’s about not being wrong.”
His risk management is where the Surgeon discipline shows. If a trade goes against him hard in the first 30 to 60 minutes, he’s out; later in the day, with the contracts squeezed by time decay, he’ll let it breathe and take it off only if breached, or roll and hedge out a week when a challenge comes early. But there’s a real Maverick streak too: he starts aggressive, then takes “bigger stabs” and loosens risk once the account is up 60–80% and he’s playing with house money — a swing-for-more mindset that produced a 14.5% week (which he’s quick to say is not typical). For someone copying the strategy that week on a $10,000 account, that penciled out to about a $940 gain.
They close with the practical stuff — the pattern-day-trader rule dropping to $2,000 on June 4, which widens the net for a strategy like Logan’s, a PDT-celebration discount code, and a quiet, holiday-shortened week ahead with PCE and GDP on Thursday as the only real data to watch. With nearly 50 strategies now live in the marketplace, it’s another example of the show’s model: feature a real trader, explain how they actually manage risk, and let the automation handle the execution.
