Trader Talk Tuesday

Hey traders how are you today?
If your new here welcome
The markets closed flattish today
$DJI ( ▲ 0.26% )  
$SPY ( ▲ 0.5% )  
$QQQ ( ▲ 0.75% )  
$IWM ( ▲ 0.36% )  

Do you know anyone with money? I’m not talking about your Uncle Bob who invented the yellow rubber ducky

I’m talking about someone who’s biggest decision that day is to take one of their Ferraris or one of their Corvettes
There’s a retired institutional trader out East that I have access to, he has that kind of money. ( Lets call him Bob ) Last week I called him, I reached out as I was curious about something with the bond markets ( his specialty )
He isn’t braggadocios, isn’t “proud” very very humble man
The one thing he has and that took him to the level of Wall Street trader that he became is something called “Walk Away” If something wasn’t producing, there was no wait, watch and see, he got out immediately, he simply Walked Away
My personal opinion is less than 1% of all people in the world will use it when they need to
Ever know someone that has a good retirement, money in the bank, but health is s—t, and they keep working later in life rather than retire and focus on living longer? I’ve seen that before
I was cop, remember that? Bad guys have a thing called “Walk Away Money” few, very very few will do it though. Saw a guy get “hemmed up” once, he had gotten over 3 Million, and was almost home free, he should of walked away
Athletes, gamblers, people of high net worth, Bob the plumber, Joe the mailman, when it comes to money no different.. At what point do you stay, risk getting caught ( like our bad guy ) or stay in the game after your best days are behind you. Or not retire and go to work when you don’t need to, but cant do something as simple as walk a mile, can’t walk one single simple mile

We as retail investors can fight that. Few will be like our Ferrari driving friend Bob and just walk away ( I’d rather drive on of the Vettes myself 🙃 )

Tech is getting hit hard, did you exit earlier with gains, or riding it out?
One thing we don’t do here at theoptionscoach.net is allow our trades to turn into investments. We Walk Away
$GOOG ( ▲ 0.37% ) I’m a little surprised its now south of $305.00
$NVDA ( ▲ 1.63% ) is up today, and still within its long range zone
$GE ( ▲ 0.76% ) had a great day today
$JPM ( ▲ 0.54% ) is doing exactly what we spoke about last week
$CASY ( ▼ 0.58% ) got hit but recovered, more on this one soon
$WMT ( ▼ 1.73% ) had a reset today, looks like the selling may not be done for now

This Friday is OPEX, WE NEED TO BE COGNIZANT OF THAT

Being OPEX Week and a short week to boot, look for prices to stall in many names
And the ones that do pull back could show larger pullbacks than normal
If we do get larger pullbacks, what’s your plan?
Will you “Walk Away”?

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