Hi Wealth Builders! 👋 It seems like we're doing very well so far for the 2023 year! The consumer price index fell 0.1% in December, meeting expectations, for the biggest drop since April 2020. On an annual basis, CPI rose 6.5%, which has been slowly decreasing over the past few months. The biggest reason for the easing in inflation came from a sharp drop in gasoline prices, which are now lower on a year-over-year basis. Heat Map📈 Here's this week's heat map: How Are The Maj

Hi Wealth Builders! 👋 U.S. stocks rallied on Friday, with the Dow jumping 700 points, after an employment report showed wage gains slowed in December. The report fueled hopes that the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes are starting to have a positive effect on the economy, which will lead to potential rate hike pauses. Heat Map📈 Here's this week's heat map: How Are The Major Indices?📊 SPY Regardless of the rally we had this week, the S&P500 is still in short-term consol

Happy New Year Wealth Builders! 👋 We had a challenging 2022 year in the stock market with the major indices ending in red. Let's take a look at how we did: SPY (-19.83%): QQQ (-33.49%): DIA (-9.28%): Though these charts may look scary to you, it's important that we stay calm and understand that we are investing for the long-term . Even though there are concerns of a recession (or maybe we're already in one if you have a different definition), know that we've always made a n

Happy holidays Wealth Builders! This week, we received data that the US economy is still staying strong with GDP growing at an annual pace of 3.2% between July and September. This was above the 2.9% estimate from a month ago. A broad-base sell-off followed as this may indicate that the Federal Reserve’s battle to cool the economy to fight inflation is having only a limited impact. I know. This sounds counterintuitive, but in a simplistic Econ101 explanation, the markets want

Hey Wealth Builders! I just posted a video here at the bottom of the Dashboard. In a nutshell: If you want to invest for the long-term, I would focus more on DOW30, dividend-paying stocks like V, MA, HD, and SBUX. I also like our favorite trash company, WM too. Only slowly scale your positions. I would only buy a small quantity of shares that you are comfortable with. Or heck, if you want to wait a little longer to see if these companies trend higher, you can also wait to bu

Hey Wealth Builders! I just posted a video on my recent investments, another Iron Condor trade, and how to close out your positions early to lock in your profits here . Hang tight as we get our newest round of inflation data next week! -Steve and the Call to Leap Team The following article is strictly the opinion of the author and is to not be considered financial/investment advice. Call to Leap LLC and the author of this article does not claim to be a registered financial ad

Hey Wealth Builders! We had a wonderful week with some positive news from Jerome Powell saying that the Fed may "slow down" from the three-quarter percentage point rate hikes starting in December. Because of this, we had a broad-based rally on Wednesday that gave the markets a strong finish for November. Technicals 📈 Here's this week's heat map: SPY As we've discussed over the past several weeks, we've been trying to see if this rally since October can last and if SPY can fi

Hey Wealth Builders! We had a quiet week as many institutions are on break for the Thanksgiving break. This week, I made a video format of this week's positions and cover a trade (Iron Condor) you can consider placing in the future. You can watch it here . Here's this week's heat map: This Thanksgiving, I want to say thank you for being part of our wealth-building community and all your love and support. Though it's been an overall challenging year in the stock market, it's i

Hey Wealth Builders! The S&P500 closed one of the best weeks since June as a report on Thursday showed slowing inflation and raised hopes that the Federal Reserve would soon slow with raising interest rates. The Consumer Price Index rose 7.7% for the year ending in October, a much slower pace of increase than the 8% economists had expected and the lowest annual inflation reading since January. Technicals 📈 Here's this week's heat map: SPY Looking at SPY, which tracks the S&P

Hey Wealth Builders! We had a huge stock market sell-off this week after the Federal Reserve bumped up interest rates by another 75 basis points (as expected) and gave another shaky warning that they will continue to increase interest rates to combat inflation. Surprised? Eh, not really. Technicals 📈 Here's this week's heat map: SPY Last week's rally was a bit short-lived. I'm still keeping my guards up with not adding anything to my portfolio just yet as we get more data po

Hey Wealth Builders! We had a lot of wonderful earnings this week. Let's see which companies did well, and which ones I think are a bit iffy. 🙌 Technicals 📈 Here's this week's heat map: SPY Congrats folks! It looks like there is a trend change for now and that we may be moving higher. We broke out of some resistance this week and there seems to be a short-term upward trending support line denoted in orange. The breakout was caused by major corporate earnings we've had. I'm

Hey Wealth Builders! We finally had an upward movement this week, with MSFT, AMZN, and AAPL leading the S&P500. 🙌 Also, did you see my recent technical analysis video in the Dashboard? 👀 What's Happened? 📈 Here's this week's heat map: SPY There seems to be a trend change as we can observe SPY breaking out of the green resistance line I previously drew, which was also parallel to the magenta support line. You can see the break in resistance with my orange arrow. I readjuste

CPI came in at 8.2% and investors freaked out. Let's collect some $ with bear call spreads.

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The S&P500 dropped more than 2.8% after reports that the U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs in September, slightly below the estimate of 275,00

If you recently set up some AMZN bear call spreads, hopefully you were able to close out your positions and lock in your profits.

The S&P500 had another sell-off this week, sending us to a new low for the 2022 year.

Hi Advanced Traders! If you recently set up some AMZN bear call spreads, hopefully you were able to close out your positions and lock in your profits. As always, remember that we typically like to automatically close our profits when our bear call spreads decay to 50-80% of their value. Again, remember that by setting up bear call spreads, you are willing to purchase shares to cover yourself in case the underlying stock rises up. AMZN Bear Call Spreads SPY: AMZN: Given the ma

The S&P500 had another sell-off following the news of a third straight three-quarters of a percentage point interest rate increase!

With the latest news on CPI and the fear that is spreading throughout the markets, we can set up some bear call spreads this week.