Bullish
Prices are trending up. A bullish thesis is when buying a call might deserve a closer look.
Can lead to evaluating a call
The Yard on Wall Street Presents
Make Better Trades
Stop Guessing What to Trade. Learn When to Buy a Call, When to Buy a Put, and When to Sit on Your Hands.
A free, live, two-evening summit with Dr. Laquore J. Meadows on calls, puts, market conditions, risk, and the mindset it takes to trade with intention.
- Dates
- Tue, Nov 17 & Wed, Nov 18, 2026
- Time
- 6:30–8:30 PM EST, both evenings
- Format
- Live online
- Admission
- Free
For beginner and intermediate options traders. No advanced options experience required.
Save Your Free Seat on The Yard
Two live evenings with Dr. L: November 17 & 18, 6:30–8:30 PM EST. Tell us where to send your access details.
Free to attend. We'll only use your information to send event access and reminders.
Sound familiar?
You Know How to Place the Trade. That Was Never the Hard Part.
You've done the reading. You've watched the videos. Maybe you've opened a brokerage account, pulled up an options chain, even placed a few trades.
And still, something doesn't add up.
- You bought a call. The stock went up. Your option still lost value. What happened?
- You saw a stock running, jumped into a call, and watched the momentum disappear the minute you got in.
- You knew you should have waited. But you didn't want to miss the move.
- You picked the cheapest contract on the chain because it felt safer. It expired worthless.
- You followed someone's trade alert, and when it turned against you, you had no idea whether to hold, sell, or wait, because it was never your idea to begin with.
Here's what I want you to understand: none of that means you're bad at this.
It means you were taught how to buy an option, but not when. You learned which buttons to press. Nobody taught you how to read the conditions, weigh the risk, and decide whether the trade deserved your money in the first place.
You are accomplished in other rooms. You deserve an education that respects that and finally connects the pieces.
The central idea
The Market Tells You What Kind of Day It Is. Your Job Is to Listen Before You Trade.
Every trading decision starts with a question most beginners skip: what is the market actually doing right now? Broadly, the market is in one of three moods.
Bearish
Prices are trending down. A bearish thesis is when buying a put might deserve a closer look.
Can lead to evaluating a put
Sideways or uncertain
No clear direction. This is where many buyers of calls and puts get hurt, because time keeps working against a purchased option while the stock goes nowhere.
Can support waiting
Conceptual illustrations only. They are not market data, charts of any security, or trade signals.
Direction is where the evaluation starts, not where it ends. Being right about direction isn't enough on its own. The contract you choose, the premium you pay, the time until expiration, implied volatility, and the risk you take on still decide whether a call or a put makes sense. That's the work of Day Two.
That third condition is where discipline lives.
Sometimes the best trade is no trade.
Knowing what to trade, when to trade, and when to sit on your hands is a skill. And it is one of the most valuable skills you can build.
Make Better Trades is built on that idea. Read the market first. Then decide.
Save My Free Seat
Free live training. Two evenings. No advanced options experience required.
What you'll learn
Two Evenings. Two Hours Each. One Process to Practice.
Day One gives you the language.Day Two turns it into a process.
Day One
Welcome to The Yard
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 · 6:30–8:30 PM EST
Learn the Language of Options, and How to Read the Market Before You Trade It
Tonight is about one feeling: I belong here, and I can understand this.
What we'll cover, and why it matters
- The mindset of an educated, disciplined investorBefore strategy, we deal with the voice that says, "everyone else knows something I don't." You can learn this. We start there.
- How buying a call and buying a put actually workPlain-language mechanics, so you know what you're holding and what has to happen for it to gain value.
- Premiums, strikes, expirations, and the 100-share multiplierThe four ideas that turn a confusing number on the screen into a real dollar amount you understand. A $2.00 premium is not two dollars. $2.00 premium 100 shares $200 per contractHypothetical example of the 100-share multiplier
- The three market environmentsBullish, bearish, and sideways or uncertain, and how to recognize each one.
- When a call or put might deserve considerationConnecting what the market is doing to the decision in front of you.
- Your first guided walk through an options chainWhat the columns mean, where to look first, and what to ignore for now.
- Interactive market-condition exercisesYou'll look at real-world scenarios and decide: call, put, or wait?
- Mindset work on intimidation and impulseIncluding the belief that every market day requires a trade.
Your Yard Assignment · Included
The Market Conditions & Call-or-Put Decision Worksheet
A one-page guide to working through the questions before you consider a call or a put.
Two hours won't make anyone an options expert. It will give you a foundation and vocabulary that make everything that comes after it make sense.
Day Two
Protect the Bag
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 · 6:30–8:30 PM EST
Build Your Better Trades Playbook, and Learn Why Mindset Matters
Day One teaches you to read the market. Day Two teaches you to respect the risk. Tonight's feeling: I have a process to practice, and I know my next step.
What we'll cover, and why it matters
- Day One review and student winsWe lock in what you learned before building on it.
- The wealth builder's mindsetPatience, preparation, and emotional discipline: the three things that protect the money you've already worked hard to earn.
- Premium at riskHow to calculate the maximum you can lose on a purchased call or put before you enter.
- Why being right about direction isn't enoughHow strike selection, expiration, time decay, and implied volatility can work for or against you, even when you called the move.
- Why cheap isn't the same as a bargainWhat a low premium is often telling you.
- Basic position sizingHow much of your account any single idea deserves.
- When a trade doesn't meet your criteriaAnd the discipline to walk away.
- Writing a trading thesisOne clear sentence on why, what, and how long.
- Building a hypothetical trade planEntry, risk, and the conditions that tell you to exit or reassess.
- Journaling and reviewHow evaluating your decisions, not just your results, makes you a better trader over time.
- Your next stepAn introduction to Options Accelerator for anyone who wants continued, structured education. Completely optional.
Your Yard Assignment · Included
The Better Trades Playbook
Your personal process for evaluating, planning, and reviewing a trade.
Come both nights.
Day One gives you the language. Day Two turns it into a process. One without the other is half the education.
Save My Free Seat
Free live training. Two evenings. No advanced options experience required.
Mindset is part of the curriculum
Confidence Is Built Through Preparation, Not Prediction.
Let's talk about it. Information matters, but in the moment, emotion often tries to make the decision for you. Fear of missing out. Fear of being wrong. The urge to win back yesterday's loss.
That's why mindset isn't a pep talk at this summit. It's part of the curriculum, both nights.
From"I need to trade every day."
To"I need to understand when a trade meets my criteria."
From"I missed the move."
To"There will be other opportunities to evaluate."
From"A losing trade means I'm bad at trading."
To"I need to evaluate whether I followed a sound process."
From"Everybody else knows something I don't."
To"I can develop my knowledge through education and practice."
From"I need to make money quickly."
To"I need to understand the risks before committing capital."
Nobody can predict the market. You can prepare for it. And preparation is where real confidence comes from.
Your instructor
Meet Your Instructor: Dr. Laquore J. Meadows
From the HBCU Yard to Wall Street. Educator. Investor. Entrepreneur. Author.
Dr. Laquore J. Meadows, affectionately known as Dr. L, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Invest2Give, founder of Stocks & Sorors, and the visionary behind The Yard on Wall Street.
A proud graduate of Tennessee State University and member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Dr. L brings the spirit of HBCU excellence, sisterhood, and community to the world of wealth building.
After nearly two decades in higher education at The Ohio State University, she transitioned into full-time entrepreneurship, combining her passion for teaching with her experience as a self-directed investor since 2017.
As the author of Income on Demand: The Complete Playbook for Beginning Stock Traders, Dr. L is on a mission to make the stock market more accessible to accomplished professionals who are ready to take a more intentional approach to building wealth.
Her philosophy is simple: Successful trading education isn't just about knowing what buttons to push. It's about understanding the market, managing risk, and knowing when to make a move, and when to sit on your hands.
Dr. L's philosophy
I don't want you copying my trades. I want you to understand your own.
Find your starting point
Your Seat on The Yard Is Waiting If…
You're curious but haven't started
You've heard of calls and puts. Maybe you own stocks or ETFs. The terminology has kept you on the sidelines, and you want someone to explain it in a way that finally makes sense.
You've placed trades but still feel like you're guessing
You know how to place an order. You've had some wins and some losses. What you don't have yet is a way to tell whether a trade makes sense before you enter it.
You understand the basics and want more discipline
You know calls and puts. You want to be more intentional about conditions, contracts, expirations, sizing, and management, and you suspect your biggest challenge is patience, not knowledge.
You're accomplished everywhere else
You lead teams, run businesses, manage budgets, and have built real assets. You're new to options, and you want an education that doesn't talk down to you but walks alongside you.
Please note
This summit is probably not for you if you're looking for stock picks, trade alerts, or a promise of fast profits. We don't do that here.
FAQs
Questions, Answered
Still deciding? Here's what people usually ask before they save a seat.
Final invitation
The Button Is the Easy Part.
Anyone can learn to click "buy." What changes your results over time is understanding the market in front of you, the risk you're taking, and the discipline it takes to wait.
That's what we're building on The Yard. Two evenings. Real education. A process you can practice for years.
You've protected your calendar for meetings, deadlines, and other people's priorities. Protect two evenings to build a more informed trading process.
Come learn the language of options. Practice reading the market. Build a process you can repeat, and leave knowing exactly what you want to work on next.
I'd love to see you there.
— Dr. L
Don't just learn how to place a trade. Learn how to evaluate the decision.
- Dates
- Tuesday & Wednesday, November 17–18, 2026
- Time
- 6:30–8:30 PM EST, both evenings
- Format
- Live online
- Admission
- Free
Free live training. Two evenings. No advanced options experience required.