A quiet way to generate income from a portfolio you already own — without predicting where the market goes next.
You've spent decades handing your money to someone else to look after.
A broker. An advisor. A fund with a name you can't quite explain to your kids.
You trusted them, because that's what you were told smart people do.
Now you're retired. The paycheck stopped. And for the first time, a bad year in the market isn't something you can just wait out. It's something you have to live on.
That's the part nobody warns you about. Not the crash itself. The feeling of being a passenger in your own retirement, watching a number move up and down, with no way to add income back in if it moves the wrong direction.
Here's what I built instead.
Hello. My name is Jerry Giles.
I spent 27 years as a broker and trader. I lived through 1987. I've watched clients panic, and I've watched myself panic, long before I understood what I was actually looking at.
What I eventually built wasn't a way to predict the market. It was a way to stop needing to.
I call it the Scrape Method.
I've never been much good at sitting still with uncertainty. I've spent most of my life testing what I'm actually capable of — as a broker, as a trader, and honestly, just as a person trying to be useful to the people around me. Somewhere along the way, I stopped chasing certainty and started building structure instead.
That's really what this book is. Not a promise. Just what I've learned works, written down plainly, for anyone willing to read it.
If there's one thing I hope it gives you, it's less fear. Not no fear — nobody gets that. Just enough less that you can think clearly instead of react.
— Jerry
The Scrape Method is a structured way to collect income from stocks you already own, or would be glad to own, by selling option premium at prices you've already decided are acceptable to you.
It's not day trading. It's not prediction. It's not a chart pattern or a signal.
It's a framework. And it's been running in my own account, documented, for over four years.
This book won't teach you every mechanic of the Scrape Method. It's not meant to. It's meant to give you the why, so you can decide for yourself if it's worth going further.
Inside, you'll learn:
Short chapters. Plain language. No jargon you have to look up.
I don't ask anyone to take this on faith. I track every trade.
Brokerage-derived, four years running, 2023 through 2026 YTD. Never rounded, never adjusted.
Not everyone who learns this is retired. Here's what it gave one student.
"I am a Thai woman. Before I met Jerry, I put my trust and money into a man's hands to invest for me. Now I know how to look after my money on my own.
Jerry taught me how to make a steady income trading US options. He made it very simple and fun to play this game and at the same time, make money.
When I began learning how to scrape I was hesitant to risk my money, so I started cautiously with one stock. After I kept winning each week, I found it would take me 5-10 minutes to make money without losing any.
There is a Thai saying, 'I don't have to borrow another person's nose to breathe.' As a woman, this gave me the power on my own."
— Kaew
Order the book today and here's what happens:
This costs me money to send you. I'm not trying to make anything on the shipping. I'd rather you read it, see if it makes sense to you, and decide for yourself whether you want to keep going. If it's not for you, you're out seven dollars and a few chapters of reading.
Options trading involves real risk of loss and isn't suitable for everyone. The results shown above are the historical results of one account. They aren't a guarantee or a prediction of what will happen in your account. Please read and understand the risks before trading options.