Pre Market APR 3, 2025

Stocks are red in the Pre Market today, very, very red
President Trumps announcement of the tariffs yesterday sent world markets into a total downward spiral. This is not to be taken lightly

We here at theoptionscoach.net are in a rare yet extremely favorable position at the moment with the current selloff since we “adapted” to using directionless strategies 2 weeks ago

The Strangle strategy that we have employed as of late will reward us tremendously today
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again:
“2025 will not be like 2024, the pops and the drops will happen more and faster”
So far this year we’ve had a few more drops than pops

The selling may not be over yet, no one knows for sure
The gains we as Options investors can make however, could just be getting warmed up

Back in 2008 when Lehman Bros collapsed things got bad, really bad for a while
At that time I asked myself, “Who benefits from this?”
Are you like me? Do you believe that for every push there is a pull?
A give a take? A loss a win?
I did a little digging back in 2008, at that time there was a company called “EPIQ Systems”
They were publicly traded then but have since gone private
Well EPIQ was granted the contract to do the paperwork from the fallout
At that time I was new to stock investing, brand new, but what I did was I was able to buy the stock at $13 a share, and it very quickly rose to $18 a share where I cashed out

That’s what I’m doing now, looking for how we can capitalize from this

For short term investors today is a wish come true, not because the markets fell, but because of the movement. For now we are staying with our directionless strategies, the Strangle and the Straddle both
For anyone that used the Strangles highlighted here recently you should be up nicely this morning, congrats to you… The move has been made, consider raising some cash here for future plays

I’m going to be doing some SERIOUS DEEP DIVING TODAY into possible plays

For now lets look at a few of our familiar favorites

We don’t chase stocks
We always buy at the MID price or better
We set STOPS and HONOR them

This morning I cannot share the current MID prices like I usually do
They will all be reset after the market opens ( much lower to our favor too )

ALL OPTIONS LISTED TODAY ARE TO BE USED AS STRANGLES

AMZN
APR 17, 2025
180 / 185

COST
APR 17, 2025
925 / 935

GE
APR 17, 2025
190 / 195

WMT
APR 17, 2025
80 / 90

One thing that is unusual ( and not a conspiracy theory, none of that here today lol ) Is prices today are falling directly in the center which is where we want them when utilizing Strangles, this is very beneficial for us… We’re making lemonade out of lemons here 😃 

S+P 500 Support is 5,500
Do you recall 2 weeks ago? It was then I said we needed to watch 5,500 for major support
It was also then that we switched to directionless Strangles that are not only protecting us in this selloff, but paying us too
Time to grind

The Options Coach