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By Tom Gentile, America's No. 1 Pattern Trader, Money Morning • @powerproftrades • March 20, 2020

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The last time I spoke with you folks, I told you about three different things that you could do - and that I'm definitely doing myself - in the midst of a world crisis like the coronavirus:

1. Risk less - around the office we have a saying, "Trade small, trade often," and there's a reason for that. Trade small basically means small risk, but also, trading often means we're able to diversify ourselves into many different things, both bullish and bearish.

2. Look for things that go up in a down market.

3. Exploit volatility when it comes to options - boy, have we got volatility here now.

Now, I wanted to take a few minutes with you to show you how I assess these markets. I look at the markets every day and I do an overview.

I divide the overall market into four grids because wherever the overall market is going, chances are, your portfolio's being affected in one way or another. So I watch four key areas - the "four corners of the market" - to tell me what's going on, and the right action to take...

The Four Corners of the Market

Not only have the last couple of days been historic, but we're talking about taking away the last three-plus years of gains within the last three weeks.

So when we take a look at what's going on here, for stocks I'm looking at SPY - the ETF that follows the S&P 500 - and I just want to look at the day events here. A week ago, we were trading at 281 and then recently came down to a low of 228. That was in about six trading days.

That's a big, big move down.

Four Corners of the Market

Typically, when we get into what we call the red area, very seldom do we turn around and go back above into the green area. So I've seen very few days where we go from an outright bearish day to flipping over to a bullish day.

Now, what happened to the S&P 500 on this particular day is that we came down and crushed through the area of support, and this provided some really good selling opportunities for short-term traders. Now, eventually we came back, did a pullback, and ended up in what I call the neutral zone.

Now, let's take a look at bonds...

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Tom Gentile, options trading specialist for Money Map Press, is widely known as America's No. 1 Pattern Trader thanks to his nearly 30 years of experience spotting lucrative patterns in options trading. Tom has taught over 300,000 traders his option trading secrets in a variety of settings, including seminars and workshops. He's also a bestselling author of eight books and training courses.

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MJ
MJ
2 years ago

Solid! Thank you Tom for this is in tumultuous times.

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Kris Seals
Kris Seals
2 years ago

Hi Tom,
I have been a Optionetics student for a long while now and I a wondering if you think that now in this market is a good time to play some strangles and strattels.
or calendar spreads? on any of this you have on your list like? CTXS, WMT, GILD, CLX, TDOC, DLR.
Thanks for all the years of sharing your knowledge!
I have your 6 DVD set and 4 books from your Optionetics course with George, great stuff. Thanks so much.

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Bill Shackelford
Bill Shackelford
2 years ago

Puts?

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Ian Marchanti
Ian Marchanti
2 years ago
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Bill,

Thank you for reading Money Morning.

If you are asking if Tom Gentile is recommending puts in the options strategy listed above, the answer would be no: he would actually be recommending calls…

The "short" and "ultrashort" securities he's referring to are actually inverse ETFs – funds that rise as their opposing market falls. So if these funds are rising in a falling market, it would make sense to buy calls on these inverse funds, rather than puts which would fall with the market.

The other recommended stocks to trade (CTXS through DLR) Tom says are trending upward, despite the falling market. As such, these would also be call option opportunities.

Best of luck!

–Money Morning Team Member

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Bill Shackelford
Bill Shackelford
2 years ago

Good specs…

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Rick Covell
Rick Covell
2 years ago

Mr. Gentile, I noticed that Boeing stocks went below $100 per share. What are your thoughts about getting in to Boeing stock at this time? Before the well publicized two crashes, shares were trading at around $400 or more.
Rick

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