I’m seeing a lot of people gearing up to go all-in with shorts and puts at open. And honestly, that makes sense. The market will likely dip again Monday — especially if more tariff retaliation news surfaces.

But here’s the thing: be careful. This play assumes that this fear isn’t already priced into the recent drop. If the market has already baked in the worst-case scenario, and instead we get a headline about fresh negotiations or de-escalation, you could get caught on the wrong side of the bounce.

You’re right to plan for another drop. I am too. But as a technical trader, I’m reminding myself: Use your assumptions to guide action — not to dictate it. Wait for confirmation. Watch for volume, trend breaks, or momentum shifts before you enter. Don’t just trade the narrative.

161.8% extension of first leg down from all time highs tested Fri in addition to long term support. Dealers will initiate the bounce to reduce exposure on downside and short covering will carry it up to render most panic puts worthless before resuming down. Lots will fight it only to lose money. Fundamentally oversold given the economic conditions. Bought 530/535 calls into close Friday. less

Realized this morning that the massive drop caused my “out of the money” sold put option to get exercised last night. Now I own 100 shares of SPY @ $505, entirely in margin. Paying 5.75% APY…

The way I see it, I have 2 options:

• Sell 100 shares at open Monday morning

• Sell covered calls in the money and collect premiums

I feel like it’s gotta be sell covered calls at $505 until it comes back up.

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This is my first time logging in since January

I bought a ton of weekly far OTM puts on nvda and woke up today with huge profits! I am poor. Like really poor. Live paycheck to paycheck. I've been full bear since 2022. I usually put $100-$200 into the stock market weekly. Finally my full port puts paid off. This is only the beginning. I sold my puts today. Took my profits and bought uvix since options are way overpriced.

Peak regard trades here. And the ironic part is I had a sell order for most of this around $21 a share a couple weeks ago that just barely didn't fill! Not selling as I do still believe in the trade and will continue to cost average down as it drops further. But definitely the largest upside down position of my trading career. Beware the risks of triple leveraged funds!!! A 30% market drop can wipe you out!

Never give up gents. I got lucky in December and turned $900 into $100k and then continued to try my luck and ended up trading myself all the way down into a 5k margin call. Took a few weeks off to recover and came back with a $5k deposit and 0DTE my way back up to $128k. (Took out 40k so my account reflects $88k)

So hear me out - baby boomers are hoarding all of the money. They’re currently retired and living off all their money that they’ve historically grown in the market. This last week they lost 20% of their income that they have to live off of for the rest of their lives. They’ve got to be terrified.

So where do they move their money? Into treasury bonds - right? I’m looking at TLT (20 year treasury bonds etf) going up this week, what do you all think? TLT calls?

Orrr…they just lost 20% and can’t afford to reinvest to they keep it in there hoping it rebounds this week. I dunno, I’m just a regard.

Held this since January and average down along the way, thanks Trump.

At 10:19am I placed an order to buy 60 contracts of TSLA $240.00 Put... Was a market order and still didn't fucking place. So I canceled a couple minutes later. I would've made $20k.

At 10:47am I bought 32 contracts of TSLA $235.00 Put @ $279.00 per contract. TSLA skyrocketed ten fucking dollars right after.

At 11:17am I couldn't take it anymore and sold all 32 contracts of TSLA $235.00 Put for an average of $54.00 per contract.

-$7,200 in 28 minutes. Tesla has beaten me down in the equity in my model 3 performance, in the stock market, and now in the form of options. I hate you Tesla.

Here are all the trades I made the past 2 days. Tariffs bad for the economy but DAMN good for my put options.

Will exit 25% at +5%, 50% at +10%, and fully at +15%, or fully at -5%. The bear has awakened from the long winter. Ride it or be eaten.

https://www.anavex.com/_files/ugd/79bcf7_4e15217c129541228327838b534afe4d.pdf

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