Bryan Bottarelli

Bryan Bottarelli

Background & Career

• Flipped burgers at McDonald's on minimum wage ~25 years ago before entering finance (new detail bridging to his CBOE career).
• Framed as a 27-year markets veteran who spent 7 years teaching trading methods to thousands of traders (Bottarelli Research era).
• Reiterates CBOE Apple options pit floor-trading during the 2000 dot-com/tech boom, mentored by "legendary floor traders."
• Self-made millionaire by age 34 — repeated as a headline credential ("millionaire at age 34").
• Formative "born trader" anecdotes reused: Star Wars figures sold at 50x; Michael Jordan rookie card ($125 → $1,500).
• Co-founded MTA (including The War Room) with Karim Rahemtulla.

Co-Featured Figures (for context)

• Karim Rahemtulla: sold snacks at an English boarding school as a child; became one of the youngest CFOs of a Wall Street brokerage in the 1980s; multimillionaire by 34; co-founded Wall Street Daily before MTA; author of Where in the World Should I Invest?
• Nate Bear: former construction worker living paycheck to paycheck; motivated to trade after his son was born in 2015; self-taught retail trader.
• Ryan Fitzwater: publisher/CEO figure cited for personal live results.
• John Carter: referenced as the "squeeze trade" originator behind the S.A.M. AI system.

How He's Positioned

• Former "Pit Trader" turned people's champion — the floor veteran who teaches ordinary traders to profit from Wall Street panic.
• Inventor-of-mechanisms persona — branded signature systems: the "Panic Payout," the "10-Line Trigger," "Gift Gap," "Dark Ticker."
• Partnership/insider reframe (Inner Circle) — repositions subscribers as handpicked "Partners" with a physical black membership card and VIP in-person retreats (Napa, Vegas, Vancouver, Montreal, Boulder).
• Transparency-forward teacher who walks through full trade mechanics on-camera using real tickers.

Signature Methods / Recurring Themes

• Gap-fill options trading: buy calls on panic gap-downs / puts on hype gap-ups; enter at 10% gap retrace (10-Line Trigger), exit at 25% (25-Line "sweet spot").
• Panic amplified by algorithms (65–70% of volume; cites 2010 Flash Crash); markets systematically overreact and mean-revert.
• Academic scaffolding: cites De Bondt & Thaler, Kahneman, Shiller, and peer-reviewed overreaction studies.
• Villain framing: the "rigged" system; 89% of brokers can't beat the S&P; 10% returns are mere "wealth preservation" for the already-rich.
• Lifestyle/status appeal: minimal time commitment, aspirational wealth, serving a small elite group over the masses.

Last enriched by FID from 9 promo(s).

Role: Co-Founder & Head Trade Tactician · Monument Traders Alliance Nickname: "The King of Fast Gains"

• Co-founder of Monument Traders Alliance
• Indiana University Kelley School of Business
• CBOE floor trader 1999–2000 (Apple computer pit, mentored by top floor trader)
• Ran Bottarelli Research independently Feb 2006 – Dec 2018
• Strong technical trader; NOT a macro guy
• Personal story: sold Star Wars figures as a kid 50x value; bought MJ rookie card with lawn-mowing money for $125, sold for $1,500
• Has a cabin in Big Sky, Montana (lifestyle/credibility detail used in promos)

Whether it was selling the Star Wars figures he collected as a little boy for 50 times their value or using $125 of grass-cutting money to buy a Michael Jordan rookie card that he later sold for $1,500, it was clear Bryan Bottarelli was a born trader – possessing the unique ability to identify opportunities and leverage those investments.

Graduating with a business degree from the highly rated Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bryan got his first job out of college trading stock options on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). There he was mentored by one of the country's top floor traders in the heart of the technology boom from 1999 to 2000 – trading in the crowded and lively Apple computer pit.

Recognizing the true value of these methods, Bryan walked off the CBOE floor and launched Bottarelli Research. From February 2006 to December 2018, Bryan gave his precise trading instructions to a small, elite group.

As a "play tactician," Bryan uses his hands-on knowledge of floor trading to shape opportunities and chart formations into elegant, powerful and profitable recommendations.

Bryan's most-promoted mechanism in winning promos:

• One trade (0DTE options on SPY), entered the day before a scheduled U.S. government report (JOLTS, etc.)
• Directionally neutral — structured to profit whether market moves up or down
• Government report dates are pre-scheduled — removes timing guesswork
• 83% win rate, 115% average gain in 24 hours — cited as research-based results in promo
• Win-rate guarantee: "85% win rate or you get a free second year" — uniquely powerful; used in TPU 85 promo

• Overnight Trades / 0DTE Options
• Government Report Loophole (JOLTS/SPY same-day options)
• Earnings Strangles
• Options Swing Trades
• Gap-Down Setups (The Gift Gap)
• Cash Code X (Proprietary Indicator)

TPU ($149) → WAR / PMK / WNM ($1,497–$1,997) → MIC (~$9k)

• Strong: Live webinar pitching for backends — especially effective
• Weaker recently: VSL performance — likely needs the right "big idea," not a Bryan problem
• Good energy on camera; compelling personal backstory
• Not a macro guy — avoid macro-heavy angles

• Flipped burgers at McDonald's on minimum wage ~25 years ago before entering finance (new detail bridging to his CBOE career).
• Framed as a 27-year markets veteran who spent 7 years teaching trading methods to thousands of traders (Bottarelli Research era).
• Reiterates CBOE Apple options pit floor-trading during the 2000 dot-com/tech boom, mentored by "legendary floor traders."
• Self-made millionaire by age 34 — repeated as a headline credential ("millionaire at age 34").
• Formative "born trader" anecdotes reused: Star Wars figures sold at 50x; Michael Jordan rookie card ($125 → $1,500).
• Co-founded MTA (including The War Room) with Karim Rahemtulla.

• Karim Rahemtulla: sold snacks at an English boarding school as a child; became one of the youngest CFOs of a Wall Street brokerage in the 1980s; multimillionaire by 34; co-founded Wall Street Daily before MTA; author of Where in the World Should I Invest?
• Nate Bear: former construction worker living paycheck to paycheck; motivated to trade after his son was born in 2015; self-taught retail trader.
• Ryan Fitzwater: publisher/CEO figure cited for personal live results.
• John Carter: referenced as the "squeeze trade" originator behind the S.A.M. AI system.

• Former "Pit Trader" turned people's champion — the floor veteran who teaches ordinary traders to profit from Wall Street panic.
• Inventor-of-mechanisms persona — branded signature systems: the "Panic Payout," the "10-Line Trigger," "Gift Gap," "Dark Ticker."
• Partnership/insider reframe (Inner Circle) — repositions subscribers as handpicked "Partners" with a physical black membership card and VIP in-person retreats (Napa, Vegas, Vancouver, Montreal, Boulder).
• Transparency-forward teacher who walks through full trade mechanics on-camera using real tickers.

• Gap-fill options trading: buy calls on panic gap-downs / puts on hype gap-ups; enter at 10% gap retrace (10-Line Trigger), exit at 25% (25-Line "sweet spot").
• Panic amplified by algorithms (65–70% of volume; cites 2010 Flash Crash); markets systematically overreact and mean-revert.
• Academic scaffolding: cites De Bondt & Thaler, Kahneman, Shiller, and peer-reviewed overreaction studies.
• Villain framing: the "rigged" system; 89% of brokers can't beat the S&P; 10% returns are mere "wealth preservation" for the already-rich.
• Lifestyle/status appeal: minimal time commitment, aspirational wealth, serving a small elite group over the masses.

Last enriched by FID from 9 promo(s).

Phase 5 harvest from MTA promo transcripts (Source Copy / LEGALfinal VSLs / MIC script). Does not replace sections above; adds story beats, quotes, and conflicts. Prefer LEGALfinal / CSLegal when details disagree. Slideshows used only as secondary corroboration.

1. McDonald’s → CBOE Apple pit — Set-piece origin: minimum-wage grill work, then the screaming Apple options pit in the 2000 tech boom, mentored by floor legends.

   • How he tells it: “Because twenty-five years ago, I was flipping burgers at McDonald's, watching the clock – making minimum wage…” / “I was standing in the Apple computer pit, surrounded by screaming traders…”
   • Sources: Resources/Promo Analysis/Source Copy/Promo Copy - MIC Black Script for Video.md (also extract sources/promos/shared/mic-black---finallegalbacked_cslegal6final.txt ← CSLegal6FINAL). Repeated in WAR Overnight LEGALfinal (“I used to flip burgers at McDonald’s before I got my big break on the CBOE.”).
   • Already in Experts Background as CBOE/Apple; McDonald’s beat is the add.

2. Turned in the badge / young & single → wife + two daughters — Left the live floor ~“12 years ago,” started independent research; family reframes why he teaches.

   • Quote: “Look, back in the floor days, I was young. I was single. Now I have a family. I have a wife. I have two daughters.”
   • Source: WAR Overnight VSL LEGALfinal (BE's/WAR/Winning WAR VSLs/…LEGALfinal…; extract sources/promos/bryan/war-overnight-…legalfinal….txt).

3. Qualcomm-hotshot cautionary tale (mentor’s lesson) — New trader in Qualcomm pit prints huge, then blows up when the bubble breaks; mentor’s line sticks for Bryan’s career.

   • Quote: “And that’s when my mentor made a comment that stuck with me for the rest of my career...” (WAR TimingWM LEGALfinal). WAR DOT Source Copy sets scene: “In 2001, I secured an entry-level job trading Apple options…” and the Qualcomm peer who went from +$600k to −$1.2M and was fired.
   • Sources: Promo Copy - WAR DOT.md; WAR TimingWM Perfect Timing LEGALfinal.
   • Conflict: DOT says career start 2001; Experts Background says CBOE 1999–2000. Prefer dated LEGALfinal/Experts span unless Legal re-clears 2001.

4. Big Sky cabin / Massachusetts home — Lifestyle proof after floor years.

   • Quote: “I spend a few months in my cabin in Big Sky, Montana, each year.” / “I bought a beautiful multimillion-dollar home in Massachusetts... and a vacation home in Big Sky, Montana.”
   • Source: WNM Method VSL LEGALfinal. Mentor first name Dan appears in same script (“So I reached out to one of my mentors, Dan.”).

5. Kid trader set pieces (already in Full Bio) — Star Wars figures 50×; MJ rookie card $125→$1,500 with lawn money. Still the open of who-we-are / Experts Full Bio; reinforced on WNM Gift Gap slideshow bio slide (secondary).

• Start year 1999–2000 vs “2001” (WAR DOT) — flag before new FE copy.
• “Multimillionaire at 34” shared with Karim Rahemtulla promos — do not mash into one person.
• Trade-count denominators for 76% move across promos (1,900 vs Experts 2,600+) — same rate, shifting counts.
• Kid Star Wars / MJ card dollar figures stable across Experts + who-we-are; no LEGAL VSL re-quote found in this pass beyond bio slides.

• Mentor surname (only “Dan” / “legendary floor traders”).
• Hometown growing up; current primary residence beyond Mass. / Big Sky vacation.
• Exact year he left the floor (promo says “about 12 years ago” — drifts with promo date).