This ONE Rule Separates Profitable Traders From the 90% Who Lose.

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  So last week, myself, Troy, we went into a Sandis call. And it's a weak call. I don't really like

• 1:18Speaker 05

  He hates them.

• 1:19Speaker 04

  Weak calls cuz I feel like it's very risky. And anything can happen, geopolitical risk, variety of different things that can happen. And like, that's out of your control. That can make a stock go down. That's not necessarily a great indicator of like the stock being a weak stock. But it's like, you know, it could just happen. But, you know, we did that, we did the Sandis.

• 1:40Speaker 05

  Well, tell them what happened. I had to call you and you told me no. You're like, listen to me, listen.

• 1:47Speaker 04

  I think, no, I say that cuz it's important because

• 1:50Speaker 05

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 1:51Speaker 04

  No, no, I'm saying in this sense, what it does is it sharpens my, the iron, right? Because I know when I call and I tell him, I know he's thinking no. But then I'm gonna tell him why. And then he's still gonna say no. And then I'm saying, look, here's what I'm really seeing as well. And then I'm like, what do you think? Like, yeah, it makes sense. It makes, I don't know what that means, but he just says it'll make

• 2:13Speaker 05

  Even that though, that's what a great investor should do. You should go in believing nothing about an asset. And then you should have to make your case. So when you're talking to your friends or your family, if they're giving you pushback on the idea, it means you have not explained it well enough, what the risk could be and what the reward could be.

• 2:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:32Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 2:32Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's true. So the option expires next month. I think that's May 1st. Is that next Monday?

• 2:36Speaker 03

  Oh, May 1st is this Friday. May 8th is the Friday after.

• 2:39Speaker 04

  No, no, no. It expires May.

• 2:41Speaker 03

  I think you're in the May 8th.

• 2:43Speaker 04

  No, I'm in the May 4th.

• 2:44Speaker 03

  No, it can't be. It has to be a Friday.

• 2:45Speaker 04

  I mean, no, I think it's.

• 2:47Speaker 03

  The 1st?

• 2:48Speaker 04

  I want to say it's the 1st. No, it's the 1st, May 1st.

• 2:49Speaker 03

  Okay, so Friday.

• 2:50Speaker 05

  Okay, Friday, yeah.

• 2:51Speaker 04

  All right, so it expires on Friday. The earnings, the earnings is on Thursday. So we did it Thursday, send this one up Friday, and then it went up today. So, all right, so I want to make this an interactive part of the show. So now, that option call is up 91%, roughly, around 90%.

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  In 2 days.

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  Yeah. So the first thing is, for you guys watching, I want, like I said, I want to make this interactive. We're up 90%, but then they report their earnings on Friday. So how I, in my brain, there's 2 ways how this can go. It's, it's going up because the anticipation is that it's gonna blow out his earnings, and you, you, you ride this all the way to that moment, right before earnings Thursday.

• 3:42Speaker 03

  After close.

• 3:43Speaker 04

  Maybe 100 turns to 150, 200%, who knows? Well, before close. Thursday, you sell on Thursday.

• 3:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's something they report after close.

• 3:53Speaker 04

  That's one thing. Another thing that you could do is say, look, I already doubled my money tomorrow. Tuesday, you sell, you can't get greedy. 100%, 100% in 3 days ain't never been a bad deal, no matter how you look at it. Another thing is you could take it all the way to the, to the breaking point, all the way to Friday, and say, look. Earnings, they report earnings. If they, if they go up on earnings, then we're just gonna ride it out to the end. We're gonna get maximum. We're not gonna leave nothing on the table. Out of those three options, what would you guys do?

• 4:26Speaker 03

  You know, we said, out of those three options, what do they think that you would do? Or they think that Ian would do? What do they think I would do?

• 4:33Speaker 04

  What would you do? What would you do, Ian?

• 4:35Speaker 05

  If you, let's say you have eight contracts, I would probably take, and it's a great lesson. You have to know the exit before you start. As Clay did. You have to know the exit before you start. So if I had eight contracts, I would take out four at a hundred percent. And then I will let the rest run. Um, because you never want to be in, even with earnings, a company can do incredibly well. And all the gains have been already taken to the upside. The stock slides down, so you can be in trouble. Um, but in this case, I would probably split. Get out at a hundred percent and then let the other four run.

• 5:13Speaker 04

  What if you, what if you have one contract?

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  Oh, I'm, I'm taking a hundred percent.

• 5:18Speaker 04

  Tomorrow?

• 5:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm, I'm locking in profit.

• 5:20Speaker 04

  Walk away?

• 5:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 5:22Speaker 04

  Okay. What, what, what are you gonna do?

• 5:25Speaker 03

  I think everybody probably knows what I'm gonna do. Um, and this is, this is part of, of the conversation that we had. I said, I called him, I go, Shady, we gotta start looking at how we can hedge this, how we can leverage it. And the reason I said that is because this is not our only sandisk call, right? Like, we have calls out to 2028. Like, I'm in a 230 call to 2028. So think about that, right? That's gonna probably be my next thousand percenter.

• 5:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 5:51Speaker 03

  And so we're, I mean, we're so far up on that, that yes, we can keep that money growing over the long term. Or we can say, hey, is this worth an opportunity here on the short term? And for me, I'm thinking, and I've told it to him this personally, this story's not going anywhere. In fact, I saw it at 1100, uh, by the summer. And the fact that it's like teetering at that number here now, I had a 1500 by the end of the year. It's teetering like toward that now. Here comes the run-up, right? And so we got a few contracts here. I said, look. Usually, I would, exactly what you said, Ian, if I got eight contracts, I'm selling four, I'm letting the profits run. In this case, I'm saying, okay, once I get my 100%, I take the initial out and I'm gonna let it run past earnings because

• 6:37Speaker 03

  a couple of things that will determine that. If it gets to 1100 by Thursday, then we're out, right? But if it doesn't, right, because where can we go? If I said 1200, then, you know, that's a hundred dollar move, it's probably like another 8%. It's not worth the risk. It's not worth the risk, but the key was leverage. And so I know he's in some strong micron calls that go out to like December of 28, 27. And I'm thinking to myself, well, you've been in those calls, that's 1,000%. What if you can get 100% in the next three weeks, right? Now, if the stock turns on to the downside, let's say the one contract was $6,000, and you bought two, and now you're down

• 7:20Speaker 03

  4,000 because the stock just pulled back $30 or something like that, right? The fact that you still have the leverage of having that late December call, you're gonna, you can get that back. Right? You can get that back over and over. And you can also say, all right, it pulled back, here's another opportunity for me to get some more long-term call dated options to actually get back the loss that you potentially could have had on a short term. And so it's all leverage. It's not, hey, we don't have sand this, we have to get into sand this, let's do this earnings play. It's, all right, we're leveraged here. We have stacked our sand this calls, I'm in the 230, I'm in the 300, I'm in the 500, I'm in the 620, I'm in the 700.

• 8:01Speaker 03

  I got this 900, and I think I'm like in a 940 out to somewhere. So, I mean, you can see that this is a company that I've been investing in for a while now. And most of y'all have been here since last, I'm not, I shouldn't even say a while. This has happened really since November. And the gains have been astronomical. And so can we make some short term here? We have, right? 90%. So if you figure, you put, if the contract was 6,000, you bought two of them, that's 12,000. You've made nearly 12,000 in two days by making one decision, one decision.

• 8:31Speaker 05

  And the most important thing is to have your predetermined target. Like for my futures traders as well, you have to know if you're gonna get out at a hundred percent like so for me, my NASDAQ target that I gave away at the mastermind, that's two hundred and sixty percent return. Uh, my big target at eleven to one, that's eleven hundred. So you have to know before you get into the trade, what profit marks are you going to take off? So please write that down now. Is it a hundred? It's a two hundred percent? Cause you don't want to be in between and be like, well, I'm up two fifty, but you should have exited already and then earners comes, it reverses your fate and then you're upset. Have those predetermined numbers and then you can know if I hit these numbers four or five times in a year, I can be done. So.

• 9:13Speaker 03

  And those are the best phone calls. Those are the best phone calls. When you watch something go up ninety percent and I'm like, hey, what you gonna do?

• 9:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:21Speaker 03

  Right. You're, you're making money. Now what do you do? Like I gotta call, hey, I'm up ninety percent. What should I do? Like you're up ninety percent like where, and that's why the market is so great. Where else could you make ninety percent of your money?

• 9:32Speaker 05

  And not have to talk to nobody unless you want to.

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