Pre Market JAN 28, 2025

Stocks are mixed here in the Pre Market today

NVDA is attempting to “rebound” it’s now up 3.5%
Volume is at 22 Million, price was higher an hour ago

Last night I was reading a “Daily Report” from an investing agency
The headlines were how the market lost 2 Trillion dollars yesterday
Yes Two, and in 2, Trillion Dollars
That’s a bad day, for those that lost

Yesterday we here at theoptionscoach.net had a stand out great day
Rotation is real and institutions can’t just go and buy and sell in days
They ( the institutions ) accumulate and distribute
That takes time

Now with the Algos it’s different, they can be scalping tenths of a penny at a time with non stop trades that add up to dollars and can then shake us retail investors out

Yesterday wasn’t that, it was a big selloff, that’s no secret

One thing they both have in common is the “time factor” and timing takes patience
I have a buddy, he’s kind of a “smart guy,” he wrote his Doctoral Thesis for his PhD on algos in trading
Even he speaks about 85% of trading is patience

It was 3 weeks ago that I highlighted WMT
I talked about them giving the Options away with a “free piece of pie”
Remember that one?

META has been no different

Sector Rotation isn’t new, it’s been here forever
One thing that I find “interesting” is the rate of speed at which it’s occurring these days
Lately there’s no build up to it, it’s day to day
Or in some cases like yesterday, it was hour to hour

Setting price targets and taking profits is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo important to your investing gains right now I could not even begin to stress it enough

We need to be better prepared in times like this, today there is no clear direction as to where the market is heading at the open, slightly “mixed to greenish” if anything

The stocks we made money with yesterday might not be the same ones we make money with today

Patience is a great virtue, but adaptability, adaptability is the single greatest trait, that no successful investor is without

S+P 500 Support is at 6,000
Time to grind

The Options Coach