Pre Market JAN 8, 2025

Stocks are mixed here in the Pre Market today

2025 is already starting to feel different than 2024
That’s good, until it’s not. As people, so many were ready to send 2024 out the door and have a redo. As investors we would welcome a repeat of the 23% return we saw in the S+P 500 last year

Recently I have mentioned as with many times in the past too:::
There are no guarantees in the stock market
One of the secrets to my personal success in the markets is to cut losses small and quickly ( can’t say that I’ve done that my entire investing career, wish I had though )
And that like anything else in life, we need to be adaptable

One thing that I hear often in my real life is “Ohh, your good at figuring things out because you were a cop” NO, that’s not the case, I did well as a cop because I could figure things out. There’s a difference… And the ability AND willingness to be adaptable ( to think outside the box at times ) played a big part of that

If the market temperature shifts here in 2025 we are going to adapt
And sooner than later

Options can be like fireworks for the 4th of July
Not just that they can be super awesome and go Bang, Boom and Bamm
But that they have so many varieties and choices

Everyone knows about ::
Roman Candles
Bottle Rockets
Big Cannon shooters
Those are what we have been doing so far with the likes of Bull Call Spreads and our Big Cannon Shooters are Blind Calls for sure

But what about the lesser known but just as useful?
The Wizzie Dizzies
Skootle Jootles
Binger Stingers
And all the other “fun stuff? 😃 

We here at theoptionscoach.net have been making plans to transition our strategies to those that are adaptive to current market conditions….
That is coming soon, very very soon

Recently I mentioned that we might even start selling Premium, well guess what? We are going to be

For stock investors we are going to be introducing Options for stocks that you want to own in the way of Covered Calls
Covered Calls are very low risk Options strategies that allow you to collect a paycheck off of Premium every Friday or once a month, simply for owning a stock
The U.S. GOVT considers them so low risk that they are the only Options strategy allowed by the U.S. GOVT to be used within your IRA’s
Many people refer to them as “Old Man Options” ( Hey, that’s everyone else!!! We don’t Options judge here!!! 🙃 )
Yes your IRA can have Options trades in it ( but only with Covered Calls or C.C.’s )

Those same Covered Calls also offer stock investors down side protection in case of market downturns

NVDA is up 1.3% give or take this morning
AMZN and META are both up 0.20%

S+P 500 Support is at 5,875
Time to grind

The Options Coach