“While everyone’s trading Fed drama, I’m following WAGs.”

Trade What You Know, Not What Headlines Scream

Here’s hack number one that’ll save you from getting destroyed in this market: trade what you know.

I mean, the last thing you want to do as a trader – especially when geopolitics are going crazy and the Fed’s sending mixed signals – is to dive into some small cap biotech stock that your Uber driver told you about. That is a recipe for disaster.

Instead, trade what you know. Maybe something like Nike or Apple or Walmart, right?

That way you’ll begin to understand the correlation between stock movements and options movements on a company that you’re familiar with.

Look at what happened this morning – while oil’s whipping around on Trump’s Iran comments, CarMax jumped 10% on earnings. Kroger up 7% after reporting its best quarterly identical sales without fuel growth since Q1 2023. These aren’t exotic plays. These are companies you eat at and buy cars from.

Why Trading Beats Gambling (Especially Now)

And here’s why this approach works, especially when markets are volatile: Trading is NOT gambling.

This is one of the biggest myths around, and it’s that trading and gambling are the same thing. Nothing can be further from the truth.

And here’s why. In Las Vegas, gambling is an all or nothing proposition. You plop $100 on the roulette table, you put it on black, and you either double your money and win $100, or when you lose it, it’s 100%. Win or 100% lost. There’s nothing in between.

In trading, you could take incremental profits on anything you want. So, for example, if you put $100 on to a trade and that trade goes up 20%, you can sell at any time and take your $20 profit. You don’t have to wait for a 100% winner to close your trade.

That’s why the correlation between trading and gambling simply does not hold up. And in my opinion, that’s why trading is a far superior wealth building skill.

YOUR ACTION PLAN

So while everyone’s trying to time the Fed and figure out if Trump’s actually gonna bomb Iran in the next two weeks, I’m focusing on what I can control and what I can understand.

I mean, you can spend all day analyzing Powell’s body language, or you can watch where actual money is flowing into actual companies that actual people use every day.

And there you go. While the headlines scream about rate cuts and missile strikes, the real money is being made on the basics that work in any environment.

That’s simple. That’s actionable. And that’s why it works.

Want the full breakdown of these three trading hacks?

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FUN FACT FRIDAY

Today’s Israel-Iran drama is nudging gas prices up, and it’s got us thinking about the wildest fuel price rollercoasters in history!

The Hall of Fame Moments:

1979 Iranian Revolution: Gas doubled from 65 cents to $1.20/gallon! Some creative drivers actually paid with gold coins because they thought it was cooler than cash. Iran’s oil exports dropped 4% and the whole world went “whoa!”

1973 Arab Oil Embargo: Gas quadrupled overnight and created the longest car lines since drive-in movies! Stations got so creative they rationed by license plate numbers—odd/even days became a thing.

2022 Ukraine: Gas hit $5.02/gallon and suddenly everyone rediscovered carpooling and biking. Communities got surprisingly creative with ride-sharing!

Who knew filling up your tank could be such a wild ride through history?