Kevin, I actually learned it from ongba and I have been doing this with LEAPS.
But for some reason I didn't do this with my weekly options last time, and then you pointed out that I could have done this. Don't know why it didn't cross my mind to do it with weeklies, so it was thanks to you I did it this time.
I am using this strategy for all of my calls now, whether long or short. I looked at my brokerage statement last month and it had more transactions than my phone bill has calls, lol. I showed it to my wife, who is a CPA and does our taxes, and told her: "these are the transactions you are going to have to type in for our tax return, and this is only for one month." She said that she is not typing those in, LOL.
All cool! Your next steps solving your good problem is:
1. find a brokerage that can import all your trading transaction into tax software. Mine works.
2. find a brokerage that can negotiate on the commission, including cost per trade, cost per contract, once you have some trading volume.
These are real problems for me and I got a handle on them before I increase my trading size.