You Just Made $4,000 Trading Nvidia Options

You just made $4,000 trading options on NVIDIA.

Not because you got lucky. Not because you chased a meme stock or caught a rumor. You did it by setting up a covered call. A simple, smart strategy that required education, patience, and a long view of risk. You chose the strike price. You watched the charts. You hit “sell to open” because you understood what it meant. And you got paid.  It’s come to the point that you don’t care if you get fired from your job.  You care more about if the market is swinging up or down.

But that Nvidia trade didn’t start today.

It started the day you decided to get serious about your career in security. Before you even looked at option chains, you had to own 100 shares of NVIDIA. Which meant thousands of dollars had to be first saved. Which meant you had to stop spending like everyone else and start thinking like an investor. That takes discipline. Lots of reading.  Consistency. A long-term and patient mindset.  But you’ve been here before because you trained for it a few years back.

Before you could invest in a stock like NVIDIA, you had to have capital. And before you had capital, you had to build income. That meant earning your way into a better job. A job that paid you not just for your technical skills, but for your ability to lead, to manage risk, to make decisions.  And to get that job? You needed proof.

You needed to show your employer — or the hiring manager — that you weren’t just good at configuring firewalls or writing reports. You were someone who could see the bigger picture. Someone who could protect the business, not just the network. And that proof came in five letters: CISSP.

The truth is, this $4,000 gain didn’t happen in the market. It happened when you told yourself, “I’m done making excuses.” It happened when you chose to study instead of scrolling. When you bought the exam voucher instead of a new iPhone. When you got up early to learn concepts that used to feel out of reach. You stopped being reactive. You became deliberate. Strategic. A thought like a manager of your own future.

And now? You’re building wealth not just with your salary, but with your decisions. You’re optimizing your taxes. Thinking about capital gains versus income tax. Your current job is not something you use to survive anymore, you use it as leverage to build something bigger.

This is what the CISSP actually gives you. Not just a title, not just a badge to put on LinkedIn. But the ability to play the long game. To stop reacting and start controlling your life, your time, and yes — your money.

It’s not about trading stocks.  It’s about owning your future and make it a little bit less uncertain.

And if you're just starting your CISSP journey…make sure you’re walking with someone who’s been through it —someone who didn’t just pass the exam, but built a life around what it really teaches. That’s the difference.