I need a favor please....

“If you knew that tomorrow you would have to fight for your life, would you change the way that you train today?”
~~~Bruce Lee~~~

What if we knew that every trade / investment that we made tomorrow, would only succeed by how we prepared today? That’s not un-plausible, it’s pretty realistic actually


Sunday I told you guys that I’m rebooting our “Model Portfolio”, building it back from scratch
So far I have several hours of:::
Scanning:
Finding stocks with strength, stocks that are growing :
Then looking at those stocks on multiple time frames:
Moving to their Options activity and interest:
Then capping it all off by looking up the historical data as to how each candidate has performed over the upcoming 3 months for the past 5 years:
Work, I’ve been working, or preparing you could say…….

Right now I have a list of 43 potential candidates
That will be narrowed down to the Top 5 that will become the new Model Portfolio, then 5-10 that’ll go on standby for any possible rotations when we do portfolio rebalancing

The next step will be going back over the Options again, but this time doing a very deep dive, that’s where “the rubber meets the road” so to speak, that will take a little bit of time, finding the stocks with the highest probabilities for success at the best Options prices

One that was on the list was $STX ( ▲ 3.02% ) it had a good day today, a little too good
Why do I say that? Because when stocks pop after a big push north, but on low volume like it had today, that typically means a reversal is in the making….
We’re playing defense here….

What we’re looking for are “Steady Eddies” like our long time friend $JPM ( ▼ 0.45% )  
Stocks without a lot of volatility that are moving from the bottom left to the top right of the chart

$JPM ( ▼ 0.45% ) reports earnings on OCT 14, 2025
Right now the heaviest option activity is for OCT 17, 2025
The 315 Strike has over 4,100 Call contracts
Some of those could be being sold as hedges, but the caveat is the Put side only has 315 contracts…. Even if there is some hedging going on, the bulls are piling into the 315’s
The NOV 21, 2025 Call Contracts are strong all the way up to the 330 Strike which leads with a little over 2,500 contracts

Strength, we here at theoptionscoach.net have always and will always be fans of strength when it comes to stocks
The major indexes closed like this today
$DJIA ( ▼ 0.55% )  
$SPY ( ▼ 0.44% )  
$QQQ ( ▼ 0.29% )  
Do me a favor please?
Forward this to your stock / options investing friends
Thank You

The Options Coach