Weekly Recap, OCT 12, 2025

Hello traders, how is everyone?
Did you get out in nature and walk this weekend?
Fall is here, hopefully you enjoyed getting some steps out in the open sunshine

There’s this “movement” that started a couple of years ago
Some companies are encouraging people go for walks together to talk business instead of lunches. It’s no secret that walking facilitates creative thinking
It’s becoming a thing in real life as well
Social scientists are telling us that more and more people now say that they would rather connect doing something, like work on a project together ( #1 choice ) or go to $COST ( ▼ 1.37% ) or $WMT ( ▲ 0.07% ) together to knock out their lists, rather than just go sit to eat to “catch up”
With that they say that the ones that do activities together form closer and longer lasting bonds

Friday I was out of the office, I told you guys last week I’d be gone a day or two
A buddy of mine needed some help. He and some other guys compete annually in a local chili festival, this year 180 teams were in it, how many thousands of people showed up I don’t know, we were there all day and all night, and it was fun, a lot of fun…..

I guess you could say we did an activity and ate, but we didn’t eat until much later on, and I assure you it was far more on the activity side

Friday the market got hammered, we all know that. It only took one tweet, that’s all, tariffs are back in play, we here at theoptionscoach.net never thought that they really went away
I’m not sure if this is a new world record or not but the market lost 2 Trillion in 2 hours… Ouuchhhhh……
$DJI ( ▼ 1.9% )  
$SPY ( ▼ 2.7% )  
$QQQ ( ▼ 3.47% )  
$IWM ( ▼ 2.99% )  

One of the two main strategies that we uses here is the Strangle
I talk about them a few times each week

For anyone that took the GE Strangle mentioned on OCT 2nd
Or the $TSLA ( ▼ 5.06% ) Strangle mentioned on OCT 3rd, and if you held on to those, I would L💗VE to hear from you. With Strangles THE ONLY THING WE WANT IS MOVEMENT< WE DO NOT CARE WHICH DIRECTION»»> Both of those trades are very deep in the money right now.. .
For anyone that took them, and now own them, congrats to you trader, congrats to you……

On trades like those you have 2 options ( no pun intended )
1st: Ride it out if you think it’s going to go in the money making direction which is south right now
2nd: Close it out, you can close the losing side ( the longs here ) IFFFFF we go south tomorrow, but we don’t want to get greedy. If the markets go north a trader would want to take those trades off the table and go for walk, all the way to go get a ice cream!!! 🙂 You deserve it

Right now Futures are recovering some, a bounce could be in the making
Many if not most stocks tested their recognized moving averages on Friday
The fact that most didn’t close below them is positive
We’ll wait until morning to see if this holds or if stocks drop further
Either way I am in the process of looking for potential setups that we could benefit from

The Options Coach