Pre Market APR 9, 2025

Stocks are red in the Pre Market today
The tariff selloff continues

When will this end? I don’t know, no one does
What I do know is that we have been focusing on very short term trading that is designed to capture volatility

Years ago I had a young man come to me, 35sh, married, small kids, small business owner, he and his wife were a 2 person business team, he had seen some YouTube videos, they all talked about “All you have to do to make blah blah a day is ____________” No, just no, that wasn’t and isn’t real. Transparency is something we here at theoptionscoach.net always present and never want to offer false hope…

Premiums:
As of this Monday APR 7, 2025 I began seeing noticeable differences in price premiums, they are elevated. Bid / Ask spreads are widening out as well. We need to remain cognizant of that as the Market Makers can use that to create “Traps” bull or bear, to trap investors in at higher prices that sometimes create “rug pulls”

With using Strangles right now instead of Bull Call Spreads we really need to keep that on our radar. Bull Call Spreads lowers cost by being half of the trade we are selling premium, right now our strategy buys premium on both sides then makes money on large moves… They are the right play for this market environment and we are sticking with them here

As of right now prices are not moving like they were yesterday morning
For those of us that are active in the Pre Market we learn the the markets timing of certain movements. Yesterdays Pre Market prices fluctuated rapidly, unusually rapidly, today they are down, but they are stable, so far at least

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

SPY
APR 17, 2025
Buy the 485 PUT
Buy the 489 Call
37.18 at the MID

COST
APR 17, 2025
Buy the 890 Put
Buy the 900 Call
62.53 at the MID

NVDA
APR 17, 2025
Buy the 94 Put
Buy the 99 Call
9.50 at the MID

If prices stall this strategy will struggle
I can’t say that enough, the only reason we have been using this the past 2 weeks is to capture volatility

Time to grind

The Options Coach