Discovering Abundantly Erica

The Early Years: A promising journey so far

My journey into options trading in 2022 to 2024 had been exciting and very successful. I had put real money into the market, built up my skills from exceptional YouTube influencers, tried out new strategies and had good success. I had trading premiums of ~$5K/month in 2023, and ~$8K/month in 2024.

By late 2024, I knew I needed a bear‑market toolkit. My bread-and-butter trades were Cash Secured Puts and Put Credit Spreads. Knowing that I did not understand how to mitigate losses from Call Credit Spreads in a bull market, I extrapolated that in the case of a bear market, I did not have a clear risk-management strategy for Put Credit Spreads. I searched online and created a play book for ways to manage risk, sometimes with new strategies I did not yet fully understand. Then YouTube’s algorithm eventually led me to Abundantly Erica’s “How I Made $400 k in One Year” video, and I knew I had found what I was looking for.

Searching for the Next Gear: Abundantly Erica

Erica’s core quartet—Covered Calls, Call Credit Spreads (yes, the trades that had stung me several times before), LEAPS, and Diagonals—work in every environment because of her variations and strategies for when the trade goes against you. Erica had setups and strategies that allow you to profit in multiple ways. But what sold me was Erica’s orthogonal thinking and unique strategies compared to all the other influencers, who seemed to have all the same strategies. Her methods provided a completely different vantage point, one that unlocked that fear of Call Credit Spread. The fact that she actually uses less of Cash Secured Puts and Put Credit Spreads, choosing to put these in her “other things she does” category really proved the point that she brought something new to the game.

After an intro phone call with her, I joined her Millionaire Mentorship program where she has weekly Q&A sessions with her students, tons of instructional videos, and one-on-one mentoring sessions. Two slides from her master class—a market up‑day / market down‑day checklist —now live on my notes app that I refer to almost every trading day to remind me of what to focus on for the given market condition.

Early results with Millionaire Mentorship Program

During the first month after joining the program, I purged lingering put spreads for modest losses, learned to let go of disaster‑waiting‑to‑happen positions of other equities that were on a downward trend, and shrank my active stock list to about ten high‑quality stocks. During the February‑April 2025 pullback I logged my highest monthly income yet—primarily from covered calls and, yes, well‑timed call credit spreads on “boring” Apple. I had assumed that I would earn less during a down-turn, but what I lived through real-time was that premiums spiked since volatility was elevated. And I still deployed put credit spreads when I felt more confident at the point when RSI low, the stock price pressed against the lower Bollinger Band, and the VIX was high. When I met my monthly goals, I tried not to get too greedy and gave back some of the gains to prepare for any future market reversal.

Exciting First YouTube Video

Erica does student profiles, which I had also reviewed before joining her program. Hearing of other's success stories helped convince me to join. During one of our one-on-one sessions, she asked to do a profile of me since I had had good success to date, and she also liked the slides I made to use ask talking points for our meetings. Having never done any sort of podcast, or YouTube video before, I was very nervous, but then I was inspired by the other students before me that told their story, which helped me join the program. Happily I did the interview, thought of it like a regular conversation with Erica, who by the way makes the whole process natural and less intimidating. In the end, I'm very proud of how it came out and I truly hope in inspires others to dive in to Options Trading and, of course, reach out to Erica for mentorship.