Options Income Trader (Remote, Funded) — Houston, TX

An options income trader at Maverick generates cash flow by selling premium in a defined-risk framework. This is not naked option selling, and it is not a martingale strategy that blows up on a single bad week. The role is built for traders who think in terms of probability, expected value, and management rules over individual directional bets.

Houston, TX: Houston's financial industry is built around the energy sector — most of the country's E&P, midstream, and oilfield services giants are headquartered here. For a trader, that means useful proximity to the largest concentration of energy-sector decision-makers in the world and a city where understanding commodity-driven equity moves is part of the local culture. Central Time alignment with US markets makes the schedule clean.

Credit spreads on liquid US equities and ETFs, cash-secured puts on names the trader would be willing to own, and covered calls on equity positions held in the firm's book. Trades are sized based on max-loss, not premium collected. Underlyings must clear liquidity screens — wide bid-ask spreads are an automatic disqualifier.

Premium-selling looks profitable until it isn't. Maverick's risk framework caps max loss per spread, total notional exposure, and beta-weighted portfolio delta. Tail-risk events (8 sigma moves) are anticipated, not denied — we expect a few rough months a year and size so they don't end careers.

Premium-selling done right is one of the most consistent income strategies in markets — and one of the easiest to ruin with bad sizing. Maverick built this role around traders who already think in probabilities and want firm capital deployed against a strategy that pays steady cash flow when risk is managed. The 65–90% profit split applies to net P&L after the inevitable rough months.

• Traders who understand 'probability of profit' is not the same as 'expected return'
• People who can follow mechanical management rules without overriding them mid-trade
• Candidates with a quantitative mindset — comfortable thinking in distributions
• Traders who don't need every position to win to feel like the strategy is working