Hey Gamers,
I’m back! And tan. So tan I’m gonna stay this way till Thanksgiving, which honestly is the real win here.
Mark and I just did our Monday live thing, and wow – market’s making all-time highs on July 21st. Hot stock summer is real, everyone. Like, actually real.
The Russell Play That Has Me Excited
So Mark’s got this whole theory about the Russell 2000, and honestly? I’m here for it. Look at these year-over-year numbers he showed me:
QQQ: Up 17%
S&P: Up 14%
Dow: Up 10%
Russell 2000: Up 1.3%
One of these things is not like the others, right? The small caps have been totally ignored while everything else ripped.
And Mark’s like “if we’re gonna get another leg up, it’s coming from the Russell.”
Makes sense to me.
We Finally Have a Weekly Game Plan Again
You guys have been asking where the weekly trades went. Well, we’ve been consolidating at all-time highs for weeks! Hard to trade a weekly on something that’s just sitting there doing nothing.
But now SPY broke out of this whole pennant thing, so we’re back in business:
SSO August 1st $102 calls around $1.80 or less
Target: $104.40
It’s leveraged, it’s cheap, and we get extra time. Sometimes things that sound too good to be true actually aren’t.
The Zone That Broke My Brain
Okay, so I have to tell you about July 16th. We had this perfect zone setup. Over 90% completion rate historically.
I get in the zone, and then boom – tariff news or Powell firing rumors or something crazy hits. The zone got absolutely slammed. Like, five points down in SPY slammed.
Here’s the thing though – the zone still completed eventually. We rallied back, hit the target, everything. But because it took so long, theta decay got us for a 14% loss instead of a win.
That has literally never happened before. Ever. Usually even with news, these zones complete fast enough that time decay isn’t an issue.
Portfolio is Still Crushing It
Three losses in two months. That’s it. Everything else has been wins, including that ridiculous 147% SPY trade.
I keep saying this – Game Plan is my favorite passive income strategy. I was making money while dancing on tables in Greece. While at Pilates. While driving around and just living my life.
The Point of All This
We’re at all-time highs with a market that wants to go higher. The VIX is basically saying “yeah, we’re good here.” And now we finally have some direction after weeks of just sitting around.
This is why we stick to the Game Plan. It’s mechanical. It works over 90% of the time when conditions are met. And when it doesn’t work? Well, sometimes Nicole’s anniversary is just cursed for trading.
Let the games begin, everyone.
Rock on,
Voz
P.S. – Missed you guys. It’s good to be back in the office making sense of all this craziness.
P.P.S. – Stop thinking about it, and join Game Plan if you haven’t done so already.
