The Modern Stock & Options Trading Show

Season #6 begins.

In the episode, Russ explains whether thins rally has legs and can continue as well as the top 5 themes for stocks (& their options) for 2025. The investment landscape we are in is covered.

Then the 5 themes covered include:

1.) AI – and the 4 sub areas of this trend

2.) Cryptocurrency – boom

3. EV’s (& Robotics

4.) ) Healthcare Innovation and the aging population &

5.) Infrastructure refresh – Roads, Bridges, Airports, etc.

Russ discusses what he is doing now.

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In the episode, Russ explains why the stock market is 50% science and 50% art. Everyone seems to want to use logic and mathematical formulas to control (or solve) the stock market. What they don’t realize is that there are millions of individuals all playing in the same place at the same time with different ages, objectives, risk tolerances, etc.. Add in their emotions (of fear and greed) and you quickly realize you can’t reduce the stock market to a predictable outcome or a mathematical formula.

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During this Episode, Russ discusses the Large Unprotected Covered Call or L.U.C.C trading strategy. Large in that the share price is large (think Costco, Netflix, Intuitive Surgical, etc.). Unprotected in the sense that the strategy doesn't buy insurance in a protective put option at a lower price (like a collar trade). It is essentially a large, In The Money (“ITM”) covered call. It is protected from volatility and the large upfront cost by how far down in the money you select, and you give back some of the premium (the intrinsic value portion) - though give back is a misnomer in that it all happens automatically at the brokerage. Several examples are given.

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In the episode, Russ explains the Box Spread options strategy. This strategy is another 4 -legged options strategy in that it puts two spread trades together. It is like the Iron Condor options strategy on the credit spread side, but the Box strategy is two debit spreads put together.

Russ discusses the type of interest rate environment to use this strategy in and also shows two examples to bring the strategy to life.

In this episode of the Modern Stock & Options Trading Show, you will learn how Russ uses strategic overwriting on expiring covered calls (when the stock will not get called away from you) to capture the extra profits from time decay on expiration weekend. He will show you the mechanics of how to do the overwriting and how doing so can add 1%-3% to each covered call trade. Two examples are given.

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