Pre Market SEPT 25, 2025

Good Morning Traders
Here’s how the major indexes look

$DJI ( ▼ 0.38% )  
$SPY ( ▼ 0.46% )  
$QQQ ( ▼ 0.43% )  

There’s a lady I know from my hiking club, like me she’s 60sh, I mean 39 ( again! 😁 )
Let’s call her “Suzy” Well Suzy is what we call “House Proud” Her house inside and outside are both immaculate. It’s not a big house, it’s not a fancy house, but it’s a realtors dream with its curb appeal
Well Suzy’s driveway started to chip up on top
She then hired her brother in law “Bob” and his “Beer Bellied Big Brained Brilliant Baffoon of a Best Buddy, Billy Bob”
Long story short, what those two “Geniuses” did to her driveway should be criminal
The GIANT humps in it, the roughness of it, none of its good, none of it

Suzy now has to have it all tore out and a new driveway poured, ouch…

In the markets it doesn’t take much to get in over our heads
I’ve been there, done that, have the t-shirt, and the hoodie……

Those 2 wannabe contractors should of stopped when it started going south
We as traders / investors need to heed the same caution if we don’t understand a trade, or are under water, those 2 go hand in hand……

People are blaming $NVDA ( ▲ 0.41% ) and $ORCL ( ▼ 5.55% ) for the markets slow down the past 2 days. Stocks are red here in the Pre Market. The federal governments possible shutdown is weighing on things as well

Like I’ve said many many times before, the reasons for selloffs don’t matter
The thing to focus on is your personal portfolio
Protect your gains, cut losses small, and never, never, ever, allow a trade to turn into an “investment”

This next trade is dependent upon MOVEMENT and lots of it, up, or down, either way we do not care, but we do need MOVEMENT

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

NVDA
We are going back to our Strangle strategy for the time being
It’s for OCT 17, 2025
Buy the 172.5 Put
Buy the 177.5 Call
The MID price on that is 10.83

We want MOVEMENT< up or down, I already said it, but traders need to know that
Strangles are designed for BIGG moves either direction
So this isn’t bullish play, it isn’t a bearish play, it’s a Delta Neutral play
If NVDA price stalls this is no good, don’t get in over your head, think about getting out

Time to grind
The Options Coach