Pre Market APR 25, 2025

Stocks are “mixed” in the Pre Market today

How flexible are you? I mean as in physically.. Can you throw your leg up over a fence rail and bend and touch your head toward your knees? Or even stand straight and touch your toes?
On Easter weekend, I turned 60, Happy Bday to me 😄 
I can still touch my toes, and throw my leg up over a fence rail
Being able to do that takes people by surprise, I’m a bigger guy, no one sees it coming
It comes down to consistency, I don’t spend hours each day stretching, only about 10-12 minutes at most, some days maybe only 5. Consistency, it comes down to consistency

This video I’m adding I’ve seen before, this guy is 88 years old in Japan
He day trades out of his home. Over the years he’s now accumulated the equivalent of over 13 million in USD… I’ve seen other stories on him too, and the one thing that sticks out for me is consistency, he’s’ consistent….. Check it out, it’s good
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH8fdzboTcd

During this recent market volatility we’ve been very consistent with our gains
Very Very Very Consistent…………………….

Going into the open this morning we look to be up handsomely with GOOG and META both. Those were both plays that I highlighted this week
GOOG is up almost 5%
Meta is up 2.8%
AMZN is green already and now up 0.6%
Yesterdays SPY play is paying off also

INTC which is not one of ours sank AH’s yesterday with bad forward guidance
It’s being faulted for holding the markets back this morning, kind of over shadowing or at least “dimming” GOOG”s beat

I’m not a huge fan of entering new trades on Fridays because of Theta
I do if the market is moving, but on a slower day that’s not the most ideal time
The market appears ( appearances can be deceiving ) to be digesting the actions of the week… A “face rippa” north wouldn’t hurt, but not seeing it here just yet

I see us entering into some fresh plays on a few familiar names very soon
Right now the ones that were highlighted through out the week and already producing and we don’t chase
GOOG is one of particular interest and I may be back after this morning with a short version of this and a few plays should the metrics line out

For now lets look at one new SPY trade

Here at theoptionscoach.net 
We don’t chase stocks
We buy at the MID price or better
We set STOPS and HONOR them

SPY
MAY 16, 2025
Strangle
Buy the 545 Put
Buy the 546 Call
$25.14 at the MID

Time to grind
The Options Coach