Month 1, in the books

Stocks closed red for the day mostly

We here at theoptionscoach.com however had some good gains
We took GOOG today which recently joined our list of “friends”
Here is how it did for today

This current market is ANTI Swing Trading
This current market is ANTI Buy and Hold
If an investor can’t see that, we don’t want them leaving the markets, we want them in so the rest of us can make money off of their reluctance to change

This week the majority of our stocks did outstanding
CAT and our new addition AAPL were the only ones not to
Our Options trades paid off better than usual
Think about it, I’ve been screen shotting this week

Most of the time with Options if a stock moves 2% we are happy with a 20% Options gain
So 10 times over
Lately we are getting 2-4% stock moves, and then 60, 70, even 85% Options gains
That was WMT on Monday, we had a 85% gain
“Free piece of pie”

That hasn’t been happening simply because we are so good looking!! 🤣
No, it’s stock timing lined with strong Options plays

Do you know what our biggest winner was this week?
SFM +8% just for the stock
SFM reports earnings on FEB 20, 2025

IBM»» Waitttt for it,,, Waittt for it….
It’s not getting out of our sights that quick
Today was simply profit taking was all that was

Here is what it looks like, appears to be, could be::
That is as “non committal” as it gets
Did the markets pullback after the White House spoke of tariffs?
Or was it end of month profit taking?

Either way the day ended with the markets trying to recover and no serious damage was done

I’ll be back on Sunday night with the Weekly Recap and a look as to how we can start the new week

This weekend the weather is warming up all over every where
Going to go hit the trails again in the morning for sure
You should too!!!

The Options Coach