Weekly Recap APR 12, 2026

Hey traders how’s your weekend going?
If you’re new here welcome
The markets on Friday then for the week
$DJI ( ▼ 0.56% ) Weekly +3.04%
$SPY ( ▼ 0.07% ) Weekly +3.60%
$QQQ ( ▲ 0.14% ) Weekly +4.46%
$IWM ( ▼ 0.25% ) Weekly +3.98%

All throughout my children’s lives, and now my grandchildren’s, I have always told them these 3 things::

1st: God will never forsake them
2nd: Regardless of what ever happens that they can always come home
3rd: Life is only 10% what happens, it’s 90% how we react

When it comes to #3, the stock market is no different
None of us can control what the president does, or Israel, or Iran or Hezbollah or the Houthi’s, or anyone else involved in the current war
The stock market can’t control it either, it reacts
We as traders / investors can “get ahead” of ourselves at times trying to figure out what will come next
I’ve always considered that a waste of time. And if time is our most valuable asset why not maximize it? In other words it’s not what happens, but how we react to it

Reports are out that a deal with Iran wasn’t reached
Tomorrow the market will do what the market will do
We’re not going to try to get ahead of it here
We’ll let the market react, then we will do what we do

This past week we had an incredible week

$AMZN ( ▲ 2.02% ) Weekly +13.64%
$CAT ( ▲ 0.46% ) Weekly +10.24%
$CASY ( ▼ 2.71% ) Weekly -0.71%
$COST ( ▼ 3.25% ) Weekly -1.62%
$GE ( ▼ 1.49% ) Weekly +9.67%
$GOOG ( ▼ 0.21% ) Weekly +7.22%
$HD ( ▼ 0.66% ) Weekly +4.88%
$JPM ( ▼ 0.15% ) Weekly +5.72%
$NVDA ( ▲ 2.57% ) Weekly +6.34%
$WMT ( ▼ 1.83% ) Weekly +0.78%

And do you remember our old friend $SN ( ▲ 0.1% ) Yes I sill love saying “Shark Ninja” lol 😁

Well traders it’s finally here
I turn 61 this coming week
And if you’re curious about my “Dead Hang” count, well lets just say yeah, I beat the 61 seconds I was working on, and then some…….

That took work. At first I could only do 2 or 3 seconds. Not that my grip was weak, but that I wasn’t used to it. I had to get out of my comfort zone, and do the work
I’ve been making new goals, new plans, and I can’t wait to see what challenges I overcome next. I hope that you do the same

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Thank You 🙂 

The Options Coach