Weekly Recap APR 5, 2026

Happy Easter traders!!! Did you get chocolate? 😁 
If you’re new here welcome
The indexes from Thursday then for the week
$DJI ( ▼ 0.13% ) Weekly +2.96%
$SPY ( ▲ 0.09% ) Weekly +3.43%
$QQQ ( ▲ 0.12% ) Weekly +3.98%
$IWM ( ▲ 0.69% ) Weekly +3.37%

So I’ve been sharing my progress of wanting to “dead hang” for 61 seconds or more for my 61st bday that’s coming up
Right now I’m focusing on sets of 20 seconds each
Hang for 20 seconds / drop / chill / hang again / wash / rinse / repeat
The other day at $PLNT ( ▲ 1.59% ) I got my ass handed to me by a 70 y/o lady……
She hung for 2 minutes and 43 seconds straight!!!! Grrrrrrr… lol…. 🙃 
 
Unsolicited she then says to me “Half my friends my age have to go to the Dr every week, F___K that! The gym is my medicine!”
Only half the adults in that age range require constant medical attention, the other half are still making it happen
Do you know who Ann Crile Esseelstyn is?
Ann is the 90 y/o woman in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the oldest female to dead hang
Ready???? 90 years old, she did the dead hang on record for the Guinness Book for 2 minutes and 52 seconds, ~~~She is NINETY~~~ 🙃  🙃  🙃 

If you look at the charts I’m going to share you will see some serious longevity going on
I did an incredibly deep dive recently with this
What I looked at was over 130 well known stocks::::
The 25 year chart with monthly bars
The 10 year chart with monthly and weekly bars
The 5 year and the 3 year charts with weekly bars
The 1 year with daily bars

Some made me want a Dramamine after with all the dizziness of Up / Down / Up / Down
Some made me realize how “Hold and Hope” investors can lose so much
Some made me say “Do Over Please!!!”

1st:: About 1/3rd to 1/2 of the charts were “Do Over Please” 😁 
Many others had serious whipsaw, as in up $50.00 / down $75.00
Lastly, buying and holding has its place, and like I said at least 1/3rd or more were really nice, but F and others with names just as big, well, I’ll let you be the judge

Futures are down tonight
The president tweeted a “interesting” tweet earlier today
He’s addressing the nation tomorrow at 1pm EST

The markets don’t appear to be liking any of it

Strangles, as much as I’m not wanting to do this we’re going back to our Strangle strategy for now. ( or it looks that way at least ) Those will allow us to capture this current Volatility

One of the names I checked out was our very own BFF CASY….. 😁 
This one falls under “Do Over Please”
And how I wish we could

Look at the top right of that channel
See how it broke out and up above for the first time in 25 years?
It wasn’t alone, many others did the same
In a raging bull market that is like the icing on the cake
We then look for the creation of a new channel with higher prices
In times of uncertainty we have to ask if it’s nearing retracement
We’ll know more tomorrow afternoon

The Options Coach

Side Note:
Some of the many reasons that doing the “Dead Hang” are these:
It’s free
It can be done from anywhere that there is a overhead pipe to hang from
Your back / spine…. Snap / Crackle and / Pop
Not only your back but shoulders, elbows too
Last week my entire neck popped all the way down better than any Chiropractor could of ever done
As we age, our spines compress
It’s said that men over the age of 50, if they dead hang for 30 -40 days consecutively will decompress their spines to the point that they regain ¾ of a inch in height
For women it’s ½ a inch