Pre Market OCT 24, 2025

Good morning traders, how are you today?
Inflation numbers are due out this morning
The markets are up in the Pre
$DJI ( ▲ 0.31% )  
$SPY ( ▲ 0.59% )  
$QQQ ( ▲ 0.84% )  
$IWM ( ▲ 1.27% )  

$TSLA ( ▲ 2.28% ) what a trade, wowwwwwwwwwwww
Hold on to your bat hats here traders, we’re gonna do some math
On Monday we spoke about the 440 / 450 Strangles
Traders that took those and then closed them yesterday morning got paid, BIGLY
Yesterday I said this:::::::
You have 2 options here today
A: Close the trade take profits
B: IF a trader felt that TSLA was going to fall more and wanted to capitalize from that ::::::: Drop the long strike here, ride the short
The B option is risky here, very risky
C: (3rd option!!!) you could close half if you went the B option to minimize risk

That caveat of :::::: The B option is risky here, very risky ::::::::: Has never proven so true in my entire trading career as it did yesterday

TSLA Opened being down $4.23%
It then bottomed at 5.63%
After that it rebounded 8.63% ( which I ended up taking also )
And closed the day +2.28%

THATTTTTT was exactly why I posted that the B option was risky
Congrats to those that caught it, it doesn’t happen every day

Yesterday was one of those talked about on average 10 days a year you can make a lot in the stock market in a shorter time frame

Right now there’s one that isn’t a friend to short term traders but to be looked at longer term. This “Hold and Hope” It’s $SMCI ( ▼ 8.72% ) and it got the crud smacked out of it yesterday
This is one that we may not see bigger returns for a few months if not even more
Heck I know traders that made 600% on TSLA yesterday, but hey took a higher risk on trades with a very short time frame, we aren’t looking for that here
SMCI as you can see can be prone to some unsettling and unnerving price action ( big swings down ) and I’m not a fan of its latest pullback either, it could be heading for the 50 Day SMA down at $40.50. But overall this is still a giant Cup with Handle pattern on a 3 year chart, and that doesn’t suck

Here at theoptionscoach.net
We don’t chase stocks
We don’t go long if a stock is red
We buy at the MID price or better
We set STOPS and HONOR them

Bull Call Spreads for MAR 20. 2026
But the 48 Call
Sell the 60 Call
The MID is 3.93

I originally wanted the APR Options for a 6 month range
SMCI doesn’t offer Options in APR so we will start here

There’s this video that went viral of this 100 y/o gentleman named Frank doing a pull up on a canon from The Battle of the Bulge. 100 years old, and does a pull up…
That is strength over time, that’s what we are looking for here today

Its time to grind
The Options Coach