Dykstra: Doing Your Homework Pays Off

My deep-in-the-money options trading system has had a good week. Bets on some of the companies I follow paid off.

This week, I've had wins on Alcoa(AA Quote), Halliburton(HAL Quote) and Intel(INTC Quote).

These wins bring the record for my Nails on the Numbers newsletter to 102-1 since TheStreet.com began publishing it about a year ago. And these wins bring my total so far this calendar year to 10. My win total just for this week is $10,150. Granted, that's an atypical week, and Intel had been out there 218 days. But with nine positions still open, more wins are on the way.

Throughout my baseball career, I put my heart and soul into the game so that I would be a winning player. I wouldn't accept any less of myself, and even now I put everything I've got into what I'm doing. I go full speed all the time. ...