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Leave a margin.

Screen a stock before a headline decides it.

The Margin DocThe short version.Money, markets, and medicine.

Plain language on money, markets, and medicine, for anyone who wants the short version. No course. No signal. No signup.

Four free tools, the workroom for rounds, then the books and essays that explain them. No signup. The podcast and the YouTube channel are there when you want to listen or watch.

Free tools

Four tools. Here is what each one is for.

Each card shows a sample of the output, then the job. They run in the browser. No course. No signal. No signup. The numbers you type stay on this device.

  1. Stock screener

    Should I look at this stock?

    Sample result · not a live read

    A ticker you typed

    Lean
    Wait
    Reads
    Trend soft · volume ordinary
    Levels
    Entry, stop, and targets shown
    Sent
    No order

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    You get four verdicts, which way it leans, and an entry, a stop, and targets. Type one ticker, or a short list.

    You do not get an order. Nothing is sent to a broker. If you skip it, a headline is the whole decision.

  2. Options scanner

    Is this a decent time to collect premium?

    Sample result · fictional ticker

    XYZ · cash-secured put

    Score
    62
    Read
    Credit looks fair. Tape does not agree yet.
    Next
    Confirm every number at your broker
    Sent
    No order

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    You get a score for a cash-secured put or a covered call on a ticker you already know. The rules are in The Premium Collector.

    You do not get a signal, and it will not pick the ticker. Confirm every number at your broker. If you skip it, you sell premium without a checklist.

  3. Freedom-number planner

    When does the paycheck become optional?

    Sample result · stays on your device

    A freedom number

    Number
    One year of spending, funded
    Timeline
    Not this year
    This year
    Surplus, then the pile
    Accounts
    Not opened

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    You get a freedom number and this year’s order of operations. Enter a few numbers. They stay on this device. Built for physicians, usable by anyone with a paycheck.

    You do not get a look at your accounts, and it is not a personal financial plan. If you skip it, “someday” stays a mood.

  4. Metabolic planner

    Can the labs move without a food war?

    Sample result · not a diagnosis

    One order of operations

    System
    Waist, sugar, cholesterol
    This week
    Plate, then walk, then waist
    Food
    Kept
    Prescription
    None

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    You get a starter plan that treats waist, blood sugar, and cholesterol as one system, and keeps the food you love.

    You do not get a diagnosis or a prescription. If you skip it, you get three separate lectures and no order of operations.

Teaching

What to say on rounds

The Workroom is for a student or intern on a hospital medicine team. Pick the problem. You get four lines: what it is, what could kill them, what you are doing, and one question for your senior. It is the short version of the medicine books, not a protocol.

  • Emergencies

    Sepsis, chest pain, a code

  • Admissions

    Pneumonia, heart failure, DKA

  • The plan

    One sentence, then the next move

  • The team

    The day, orders, and the handoff

The catalog

The books behind the tools

Field guides for the floor. A map to optional work. Beginner books on covered calls and cash-secured puts. The metabolic triad without a food war.

01 · Markets & money

Selling options and physician financial independence

Why these books. Covered calls, cash-secured puts, and a physician’s map to optional work. Defined risk. Leave a margin in the account.

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02 · Hospital medicine

Hospital medicine field guides for residents and attendings

Why these books. Night-one handbooks for the ward, and a new casebook: Deceptively Simple. Diagnosis, treatment, and the one line nobody questioned. The Workroom is the four-line version for rounds.

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03 · Metabolic health

Weight, blood sugar, and cholesterol without a food war

Why these books. Three readouts of one system. A physician’s humane method for metabolic health, without giving up the food you love.

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Podcast

The Margin Doc

Season one is Practice by Choice. Season two is Option Selling for Beginners.

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YouTube

The Margin Doc

The same teaching on video. Short explanations you can watch between shifts. No signup.

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From the books

The line, then the reason.

  • A paycheck you can’t walk away from isn’t wealth. It’s a leash.

    Practice by Choice

  • A 78% win rate can still lose you money. Here is the arithmetic nobody puts on the cover.

    Option Selling for Beginners

  • Weight, blood sugar, and cholesterol are one system. Keep the food you love.

    You Don’t Have to Choose

Who this is for

Three rooms. Same instruction: leave a margin.

Hospital medicine stays on the floor. The scanner, the options books, and the metabolic triad are for a wider room. Start in the room you came for.

  • The floor

    Residents and hospitalists

    Night one. New labs. Family in the hall. Field guides for the next move, not a textbook.

    Open the workroom →
  • The market

    Anyone collecting premium

    Covered calls and cash-secured puts. Be the house, not the lottery ticket. Size so one bad week does not end the account.

    Open the scanner →
  • The body

    Anyone tired of a food war

    Waist, blood sugar, and cholesterol are three readouts of one engine. Keep the biryani and the burgers.

    Open the metabolic planner →

Author

Haseeb Aslam, MD

Hospitalist and teaching attending

Haseeb Aslam, MD is a hospitalist and teaching attending. He writes for the floor, and for anyone who wants the short version, then the reason: hospital medicine field guides, physician financial independence, selling covered calls and cash-secured puts, a planner for making work optional, and a metabolic triad for waist, blood sugar, and cholesterol.

The about page is the longer note on why the site is built this way.

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