We created The Trading Club to introduce average investors to the powerful wealth-building tools that professionals use to stack the odds in their favor.

But using those tools can wreak havoc on a portfolio when used without proper training and risk management.

There are many research services that push their subscribers into the option-trading minefield with a blindfold. Given all the potential pitfalls inherent in options trading, we were reluctant to launch a service like this for the first three years of Porter & Co.

When we finally decided to proceed, we knew we had to do things differently from every other service out there. It's why we built the strategy around a core framework of risk management above all else, and it's why we decided to record demonstration videos showing exactly how and why we implement every trade with real money on the line.

Our goal is not to simply put together a string of great trades that subscribers follow blindly. Our goal is to educate readers on exactly how each individual strategy works, how it can backfire, and most importantly, to introduce a holistic framework for implementing these strategies within an overall portfolio.