Weekly Recap JAN 12, 2025

How was your weekend? Do anything good?
Friday night was the best part of mine
Last week I shared that I have been going out late at night every night since “Snowmegeddon 2025” hit and taking it all in on big long walks
Friday nights walk was different. I planned on going out for one hour but ended up traversing the streets under my feet for over 2 hours and 20 minutes> It was 23 degrees outside, so it was perfect
I did take about a 10 minute break and stopped at the Mexican food truck for a quesadilla so that didn’t suck 😁 
What started out as “hearty walk” turned into it’s own “adventure”
When I walk at night I wear a big ole orange reflector safety vest
I also carry a hand held spotlight that could find Bigfoot a mile away!!
That vest came in handy as not once, not twice, but three separate times as I personally stopped traffic so cars that were stuck behind the 6 foot tall “snow mountains” could get out
Well as I was able to get traffic moving again most people rolled down their windows, honked, waved and many even shouted THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Almost all, then there was one lady, one, 1, uno, solo, single as in alone, by herself lady
As she proceeded to yell at me “Why doesn’t “The City” do Blah Blah Blah!!” many others were still shouting Thank You’s…..
While I politely attempted to share that I didn’t work for The City, but was simply trying to help, she was relentless, I was 2 seconds away from telling her to go to the Golden Arches and buy herself a “Happy Meal” 🤬 🤬 
Later that night after I was home the phone rang, it was a long lost buddy of mine that wanted to catch up, timing? It served my soul well 🙂 

The moral of that story is that you can do every single thing you can for the greater good, you can go above and beyond, possibly even placing yourself at risk, and some still won’t be happy
But those are far and few in between. The market is that way, right now very much so
We appear to currently be in a “reset” or a “redo” of the bull run
Many stocks that pulled back the past weeks have recently been bouncing off of their recognized Moving Averages as previously mentioned
For stock investors that’s great, it allows them a 2nd chance at a cheaper cost
For Options investors it’s those things too, but with soooooo much more

Was it last week? Maybe the week before that I mentioned this, The Metrics and The Greeks are all being “reset”
~~That is incredibly advantageous for us as Options Investors right now~~

First and foremost, not all stocks are moving right now
But the ones that we have been focusing on as of late have been
Also the S+P 500 seems to be stuck with Support at the 5,875 area
I feel like a broken record reporting that every morning but we can’t lose sight of that

COST has been with us for a while now. There are so many things to love about this stock
Last week I mentioned the entries twice and I did take them
First off in this is a play I have touted for months as a “Income Generator”
Putting my money where my mouth is that is what I did in the way of “Calendar Spreads”
This strategy is something I mentioned a few weeks back that we would be implementing as the market was appearing to shift
Calendar Spreads are made for Weekly or Monthly income, they can be as conservative or as aggressive as an investor wishes to play them
C. S.’s offer the investor the ability to have down side protection while they gain in price
They differ from Bull Call Spreads because the EXP Date is not the same on both Strikes as with Bull Call Spreads
With C.C.’s you sell a OTM Call and collect the Premium for a shorter period than you buy the Long Call. After the Short Strike Expires ( hopefully worthless< that’s the goal ) you hold the Long Strike and “Roll” the Short Strike to the next EXP. Both Strike are always OTM
Confused? When I first started I know that I was, but I assure you they are learnable. I’ll be making “how to” videos on these and posting them in the near future
When COST bounced off of the bottom of it’s current box we bought
The new play we put on this past Friday in the way of C.S.’s goes like this:

For our 950 Calls that we Bought for FEB 21, 2025 $2,005.00 we paid $2,005.00
For our 950 Calls that we Sold for JAN 17, 2025 we took in $517.00 in Premium
Our total cost for this trade was $1,488.00
Seeing as how we are up $221.00 on our Calls
And are flat with the Premium that we sold, that makes us up 15% on the trade in one day. That is with COST only moving roughly 1% on the day
That is not Blind, that has downside protection as mentioned up above
For more conservative investors Calendar Spreads are as “Wash, rinse and repeat” as it gets….. They rank up there with that of Covered Calls only require a lot less capital to start with
Doubling our money with this low risk trade by its EXP on FEB 21, 2025 is looking doable
Getting a 236% gain is the goal ( $1,488.00 to $5,000.00 )
Again, these can be adjusted to be as conservative or as aggressive as an investor wishes
On the chart COST is in the middle of it’s box now, we could see a slight pullback before it’s next push north.
COST is a high dollar stock, but it’s still 8% from its ATH
Growing back up to that mark could make investors some serious green
We are looking for more ad ons here and I’ll be sharing as they come along
COST reports earnings on MAR 6, 2025

WMT 😁 
Who was it exactly this time last week shared that WMT was a buy at this point and that they were giving away freebies with the Options here??? 😁 
I don’t know either but if we figure it out we can tell him thanks 😁 

We went Blind with WMT this week
WMT as a stock only went up 2.45% this week
You can tell by the blue highlighted area in the center where our Calls wound up percentage wise…

WMT is another one that we are currently looking to add on to
Investors still like the MAR 21, 2025 Calls
We are looking at adding to those at the 95 and the 100 Strikes both
The 95’s are going for $3.52 at the MID
The 100’s are going for $1.73 at the MID
Be mindful those are Blind, they have no built in down side protection
WMT reports Earnings on FEB 20, 2025

AMZN closed down 2.34% on the week
We’re watching for a possible price retrace to the 215 area
HD to choppy for my liking, maybe later

META up 1.86% on the week, we are cautiously optimistic
NVDA while we currently do not have a active position in it closed down 5.34% on the week, ouch….. The good thing is it appears to hovering at $135.00 for Support, and bounces from here would be welcomed
SFM closed up 2.47% on the week, we like it here again
SN 😁 😁 😁 Up 9.65% on the week
A continuation from here wouldn’t be unfathomable

Banks begin reporting Earnings this week
That will tell us a lot about the rotation that just took place
We will be watching them closely

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